Neuroinclusion

02/11/2026

Are you joining us for tomorrow’s learning about fidgets, squishies and sensory tools and choosing the right ones for the right reasons? 👀

We know sensory tools are everywhere. But how do we differentiate between sensory tools and toys, understand their purpose, and determine whether they’re actually supporting a person’s needs?

Join me for my live training tomorrow on differentiating sensory tools and toys, where we’ll explore the role of fidgets, squishies and other sensory resources in practice.

✨ Whether you’re a health professional, teacher, parent or person working with sensory needs, this training is an opportunity to build your knowledge, challenge your assumptions and feel more confident when selecting and recommending sensory resources.

📣 Ready to take the guesswork out of choosing sensory tools?

Register now to secure your place! Don’t miss the opportunity to deepen your understanding and bring fresh insights into your practice.

👉 VIEW TRAINING DETAILS & REGISTER HERE:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2003332773253?aff=oddtdtcreator

I’d love to see you there! 💛

Neurodivergent occupational therapist Claire Britton leads this online live training for parents, educators and therapists.

30/10/2026

This Occupational Therapy Week, we’re celebrating something bigger than our own practice. 💜

We’re celebrating the Australian occupational therapy practices working alongside, advocating for and championing neurodivergent people, particularly the 20 practices we’ve highlighted from across Australia.

Because we’re stronger together.

In a profession that is still fighting to be included, understood, recognised and valued, we need to be celebrating the people and practices doing the work, sharing knowledge, challenging outdated approaches and pushing for better.

There is room for all of us to grow. There is strength in collaboration, not competition. And there is so much more we can achieve when we stand together.

To every OT practice championing neurodiversity, advocating for meaningful change and helping people live more authentically: we see you, and we’re celebrating you.

A stronger profession means a stronger collective voice. And a stronger collective voice means better outcomes for the people and communities we support.

Happy Occupational Therapy Week! 💜

Let’s keep championing this incredible profession, together.

29/10/2026

🎉 Happy Occupational Therapy Week!

Occupational therapy is about helping people do the things that matter to them.

Occupational therapists support people of all ages to participate in everyday life, reduce barriers and improve their quality of life.

💚 OT goals can support:
✨ Self-care and daily living
🧠 Sensory needs and regulation
🎨 Hobbies, interests and play
🤝 Socialising and relationships
🏫 Learning and education
💼 Work and study
😴 Rest and recovery
🏡 Home and community participation
🌈 Autonomy and authentic living

Occupational therapy isn’t about making people fit into the world. It’s about working alongside people to create opportunities for meaningful participation.

This Occupational Therapy Week, let’s celebrate the profession that helps people do what matters to them.

💬 What do you wish more people knew about occupational therapy?

26/10/2026

This Occupational Therapy Week, we’re celebrating the OTs who know that people don’t need to be fixed to deserve support. 🌈💜

And while neurodiversity-affirming practice is something we want to see across our profession, there’s always more to learn, unlearn and advocate for.

✨ Occupational therapy aligns with neurodiversity-affirming values and principles.

At its best, OT recognises that meaningful participation isn’t about forcing people to fit into environments that weren’t designed for them. It’s about understanding the person, removing barriers and supporting them to live life in ways that work for THEM.

💬 Neurodiversity-affirming occupational therapists say:
• “What matters to you?” — not “What’s the matter with you?”
• “How can we adapt the environment?” — not “How do we make you tolerate it?”
• “Your communication is valid, even when it looks different.”
• “Regulation matters more than appearing compliant.”
• “Let’s build on your strengths, not just target your struggles.”

🎯 Neurodiversity-affirming SMART occupational therapy goals focus on meaningful participation, autonomy and access — not masking, compliance or appearing neurotypical.

For example: “Within 8 weeks, the client will trial and identify at least two self-selected sensory or environmental supports that improve their access to a meaningful daily activity, with support as needed.”

Because a goal can be measurable without making someone’s identity, communication or natural ways of being the problem.

This Occupational Therapy Week, let’s celebrate the occupational therapists challenging outdated practices, listening to neurodivergent people and helping build a world where different ways of being are genuinely supported.

OTs: What’s one thing you wish everyone understood about neurodiversity-affirming practice? Tell us in the comments. 👇

23/10/2026

Things I’m scared of as an occupational therapist, disability advocate and neurodivergent person working within the NDIS space.

• Losing autonomy as decisions that have been made for people rather than with them.

• Judging people by their external behaviours without understanding their needs, experiences or environments.

• Dismissing lived and professional experience as though neurodivergence can be understood through textbooks alone.

• Ignoring systemic oppression including the impacts of ableism, colonialism and patriarchy on neurodivergent people.

• A lack of leadership accountability — when inclusion is promised but not embedded into governance, systems and environments.

Neurodiversity-affirming practice cannot stop at the individual. It must challenge the systems that shape people’s lives.

We shouldn’t be teaching people to adapt to harmful systems. We should be changing the systems.

Do these scare you too?

22/10/2026

Hot take: Sometimes the biggest barrier to a person’s progress is their environment. 👀

Before we work on building an individual’s skills, we need to look at what their environment is asking of them.

The sensory demands.
The expectations.
The accessibility.
The accommodations.

Because the right support can change everything.

Change the environment. Change the possibilities. ♾️

Neurodiversity-affirming practice starts here.

Therapists, are we asking enough questions about the environment? 👇

19/10/2026

Stop teaching people to regulate their nervous systems so they can keep tolerating the things that are hurting them.

Read that again.

Sometimes the problem isn’t your inability to regulate.

It’s the environment you’re expected to tolerate.
The workplace that burns you out.
The relationship that leaves you walking on eggshells.
The sensory environment that overwhelms you.
The unrealistic expectations that push you beyond your capacity.

And yet, we keep telling people to breathe, build resilience, practise mindfulness and learn to cope.

What if the goal isn’t to help people tolerate more harm, but to change the conditions causing the harm in the first place?

As an occupational therapist, I believe regulation strategies have a place. But they should never become a tool for teaching people to tolerate environments that need to change.

We cannot keep individualising problems that are environmental, relational and systemic.

Sometimes the most neuroaffirming intervention isn’t another regulation strategy.

It’s removing the barrier. Changing the expectation. Providing the accommodation. Or walking away from what’s hurting you.

Regulation without environmental change can become another form of compliance.

Agree or disagree? 👇

16/10/2026

🎃 THE ULTIMATE TREATS FOR NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE THIS HALLOWEEN 👻

Forget the lollies for a second. What if the sweetest treats we offered neurodivergent people were the things that actually helped them feel safe, accepted and understood? 🧡

🍬 Curiosity instead of judgment.
🍬 Emotional and sensory regulation tools without shame.
🍬 Celebrating unique wins, even when they look different from everyone else’s.
🍬 Valuing all communication, including non-speaking communication.
🍬 Honouring individual needs and capacities without comparison.
🍬 Respecting identities without expecting people to mask.
🍬 Embracing diversity rather than expecting conformity.
🍬 Accommodations without requiring proof of struggle or disability.
🍬 Authentic inclusion that goes beyond simply being invited.

Because the best treat isn’t being told to fit in.

It’s being supported to show up as your authentic self. 🧡

This Halloween, let’s make inclusion more than a cute slogan. Let’s create environments where neurodivergent children and adults don’t have to earn acceptance by appearing less disabled, less different or more convenient for others.

✨ Which of these treats do you wish every neurodivergent person received?

Save this post, share it with someone who needs the reminder, and let’s make inclusion the norm and not the exception. 🎃