LEANBH – our online program for professionals who support Autistic children in a clinical or educational setting.

For professionals who support Autistic children & teens

“I highly, highly recommend this training! Even with the time difference, I was actually EXCITED to wake up at 4:30am each day. The training was so incredibly compelling, fascinating, and engaging. I cried through huge chunks of it because the generosity, vision, and selflessness of the trainers was so beautiful. I’m sort of a “training snob” and often underwhelmed by trainings. . . this one really shook my whole mind, spirit, and heart in a real way.”

danielle maxonight Danielle Maxonight, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
“Cannot recommend the Leanbh course highly enough – by far the most informative and helpful course I have completed in the last ten years. It has massively improved my own neuro-affirmative clinical practice as an SLT working with Autistic clients and families and is continuously positively influencing the workings of my private practice overall.”
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Catherine MackeyClinical Director and Specialist Speech and Language Therapist at Mind Your LanguageCatherine Mackey, Director and Specialist Speech and Language Therapist at Mind Your Language
“I am very grateful that you designed, wrote and delivered this course. To learn authentically and be able to know that all learning, voices and people are included and accepted, made the learning so rich. Thank you to you and your team at AUsome.”
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Sarah Everett, Group Therapist, Parent Support, Counsellor

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Welcome to LEANBH – our online program for professionals who support Autistic children in a clinical or educational setting

LEANBH (pronounced lah-nuv), Irish for child, is a unique neurodiversity-affirming approach, designed and delivered by our award-winning trainers who are Autistic themselves. It offers participants practical skills training, a strong theoretical overview, and ongoing community mentoring.

Prepare to be moved, inspired and challenged as we navigate the complexities of Autistic childhood together. Completion of this 5-day program will equip you to create a Neurodiversity-affirming practice and approach to supporting your young Autistic clients and their families.

Places are strictly limited to 25 participants, so early booking is advised. IACP CPD recognised and awarded 22 CPD points.

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Ready to Neurodiversify your practice?

Leanbh is ideal for helping professionals such as OTs, SLTs, Play Therapists, Psychologists, SENCos, Career Guidance Counsellors, Youth Workers and other professionals who work with minors in a therapeutic, educational or clinical setting.

Participants who complete this 5-day course will gain skills and strategies to deeply understand and meet the needs of their Autistic clients.

  • Learn about early childhood, dependency and discovery through an Autistic lens.
  • Discover the commonality of trauma and anxiety as Autistic experiences, and understand their causes and remedies.
  • Gain insight into the variation of Autistic sensory experience.
  • Understand Autistic stimming from an Autistic perspective as part of the diversity of human stimming.
  • Gain root cause analysis techniques so that you can meet your clients needs effectively and ethically.

This Programme will be facilitated online via Zoom.

Assessment:

Choice between a presentation or an essay on your Individual Learning Summary based on your Reflective Learning Journal. Accommodations are available.

You can download our detailed course outline here.
For any questions, feel free to book a free consultation or email us.

Families face long waiting lists everywhere desperate for genuine support and understanding.

Unfortunately, there is a shortage of practitioners who use truly Neurodiversity-affirming approaches.

Finding a neurodiversity-affirming professional can make all the difference to an Autistic child and their family. You might be the first person to ever truly validate your client as their Autistic self and support them on their journey to self-discovery, self-acceptance, and self-care.

Our post-course directory is designed to connect potential clients with neuro-affirming practitioners like yourself.

Your journey with us doesn’t end there!

Our views on the Autistic experience evolve constantly, which is why it is vital that we continue to listen and learn from the Autistic community.

Here are some ways you can stay connected:

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your Autistic Trainers & Mentors

Gillian Kearns

Gillian Kearns

Early Childhood Educator

“Sharing lived experience, allowing a window into the richness and complexity of our experiences, is how we will change things for the better.”

Stiof Macamhalghaidh

Stiof Macamhalghaidh

Theorist & Subject Matter Expert

“Dignity is our soul. Joy is our sustenance. We have a lot to be proud of, and I say ‘we’ deliberately because the pride I feel in being Autistic is a shared experience as a member of a community.”

Become part of our Network of neuro-affirming Professionals

All successful LEANBH graduates will have the option to join our directory and monthly networking opportunities online.

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