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Resources

Below are some resources that are related to neurodivergence. I’m only listing things that I have read, purchased, attended myself and feel they are positive resources to refer to.

Most of the books are freely available from the Gold Coast City Library in either hardcopy or eBook format.

How can VCP make therapy sessions better for me? Please download this therapy accomodations guide and email it through prior to any appointment or bring it along with you.

Medicine shortage database Department of Health Therapeutic Goods Administration

Psychology Board Code of Conduct Effective 1 December 2025

Medical related resources

  • GP Guide to hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos
  • Ehlers-Danlos Society https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/what-is-eds/
  • Do you have an invisible illness and want to better understand your health? Active Health Clinic’s Questionnaire (not a diagnostic tool)
  • Research in Long COVID, POTS, fibromyalgia and other areas by Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Adelaide researcher, Dr Marie-Claire Seeley (RN, PhD) and Gold Coast based GP, Dr Graham Exelby

Why I do NOT use the ADOS

My favourites

What is…?

Autobiographies by Australian Autistic authors

  • For older adolescents & young adults: Chloé Hayden’s Different, Not Less
  • Clem Bastow’s Late Bloomer: How an autism diagnosis changed my life
  • Hannah Gadsby’s Ten Steps to Nanette definately targetted to adults

Parenting focussed readings

  • Dr Naomi Fisher, Low Demand Parenting
  • Eliza Fricker’s books (author and illustrator)
  • Raising Human Beings by Ross Greene and Collaborative Proactive Solutions approach to parenting
  • Raising a Secure Child by Kent Hoffman
  • The APS website has some parent resources and information about psychologists in schools

 Other great books

  • Unmasking Autism: The power of embracing our hidden neurodiversity by Devon Price
  • Spectrum Women: Walking to the beat of Autism eds. Barb Cook & Michelle Garnett

Online groups to check out

Awesome Australian ND businesses

  • Patrick Saunders A non-speaking Autistic Speller – it’s a Blog, but also Patrick’s source of income, check it out!!
  • Kaiko Fidgets . Based in Melbourne. Co-founded by Kai, now in his teens, who is both autistic & dyslexic and his OT Mum, Jo. Lots of great products suitable for adults and kids of all and any genders.

Listen to (more awesome Australian content)

Other great neuroaffirming neurodivergent resources 

School and Workplace adjustments

Follow Me

Self-Help / Mental Health Resources (mostly free, some paid)

 Parenting Resources

If you have the means, these are great trainings that I have completed

 

Fact Checking

You may have heard the “statistic” that ADHDers receive up to 10,000 criticisms or negative comments more than their neurotypical peers by the age of 10 years. Here is a link to the original opinion piece from 2010 (that’s a long time ago!!) as to how this number came into pop-culture. While there is a likely truth to it, this is not a researched number! Jellinek’s original article 

“It’s not too much of a stretch to assume that such a child might receive a negative or corrective comment from the teacher, say, three times an hour […] In school alone, a child with ADHD could receive 20,000 corrective or negative comments by the time he or she is age 10.”

 

This page was last updated July 2026, so links may have broken since then. But I will try to check this out at least annually 🙂