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Work with Education Settings
I really enjoy working with education settings, supporting them to work towards creating the structural and systemic changes needed to provide better quality teaching, learning and social experiences to autistic and ADHD young people.
I have spent the first decade of my career working in specialist education settings across key stages and into further education. During this time, I have worked in both clinical and clinical management roles, integrated into these settings and have worked closely with educational senior leadership teams.
I have a good understanding of Education, Health and Care Plans, in England and Individual Development Plans, in Wales plus the Ofsted framework and school governance processes.
I feel passionately about supporting education settings to work closely with their learners and their families to co-create and shift ableist outcomes and structures, enabling them to flourish in education, wherever possible.
Now taking bookings for 2025-2026 inset and twilight training sessions.
Get in touch with me to discuss your settings training needs.
Examples of previous training
Accessible RSE in Mainstream: Adaptations Enhance Interventions
In this workshop, Kate facilitated sessions for PSHE Co-Ordinators across Derbyshire mainstream and specialist schools on adapting RSE to provide greater accessibility for neurodivergent and disabled learners to complement any additional individualised programmes. It also challenged educations role in dismantling harmful RSE tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Sensory and Communication Differences Through an Intersectional Lens
This training session explores sensory and communication differences through an intersectional lens, supporting attendees to further understand the importance of ensuring learning speaks to the experiences of diverse groups.
Honouring the Double Empathy Problem in Relationships and Sex Education
In this workshop, Kate offers attendees information about the Double Empathy Problem and considers how RSE can challenge harmful tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Puberty, Sex, and Relationships for Young People with Neurodivergence webinar
In this training webinar, Kate had the pleasure of joining Lynn McCann from Reachout ASC and autistic trainer, Dean Beadle to talk all things puberty, sex and relationships for neurodivergent children and young people.
Making RSE Accessible to People with Speech, Language and Communication Differences
A presentation designed for the Sex Education Forum's Spring RSE Members Event addressing accessibility in RSE for people with speech, language and communication differences from a systemic and structural perspective, as well as practically speaking adaptations, in the classroom.
Accessible RSE in Mainstream: Adaptations Enhance Interventions
In this workshop, Kate facilitated sessions for PSHE Co-Ordinators across Derbyshire mainstream and specialist schools on adapting RSE to provide greater accessibility for neurodivergent and disabled learners to complement any additional individualised programmes. It also challenged educations role in dismantling harmful RSE tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Sensory and Communication Differences Through an Intersectional Lens
This training session explores sensory and communication differences through an intersectional lens, supporting attendees to further understand the importance of ensuring learning speaks to the experiences of diverse groups.
Honouring the Double Empathy Problem in Relationships and Sex Education
In this workshop, Kate offers attendees information about the Double Empathy Problem and considers how RSE can challenge harmful tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Puberty, Sex, and Relationships for Young People with Neurodivergence webinar
In this training webinar, Kate had the pleasure of joining Lynn McCann from Reachout ASC and autistic trainer, Dean Beadle to talk all things puberty, sex and relationships for neurodivergent children and young people.
Making RSE Accessible to People with Speech, Language and Communication Differences
A presentation designed for the Sex Education Forum's Spring RSE Members Event addressing accessibility in RSE for people with speech, language and communication differences from a systemic and structural perspective, as well as practically speaking adaptations, in the classroom.
Accessible RSE in Mainstream: Adaptations Enhance Interventions
In this workshop, Kate facilitated sessions for PSHE Co-Ordinators across Derbyshire mainstream and specialist schools on adapting RSE to provide greater accessibility for neurodivergent and disabled learners to complement any additional individualised programmes. It also challenged educations role in dismantling harmful RSE tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Sensory and Communication Differences Through an Intersectional Lens
This training session explores sensory and communication differences through an intersectional lens, supporting attendees to further understand the importance of ensuring learning speaks to the experiences of diverse groups.
Honouring the Double Empathy Problem in Relationships and Sex Education
In this workshop, Kate offers attendees information about the Double Empathy Problem and considers how RSE can challenge harmful tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Puberty, Sex, and Relationships for Young People with Neurodivergence webinar
In this training webinar, Kate had the pleasure of joining Lynn McCann from Reachout ASC and autistic trainer, Dean Beadle to talk all things puberty, sex and relationships for neurodivergent children and young people.
Making RSE Accessible to People with Speech, Language and Communication Differences
A presentation designed for the Sex Education Forum's Spring RSE Members Event addressing accessibility in RSE for people with speech, language and communication differences from a systemic and structural perspective, as well as practically speaking adaptations, in the classroom.
Accessible RSE in Mainstream: Adaptations Enhance Interventions
In this workshop, Kate facilitated sessions for PSHE Co-Ordinators across Derbyshire mainstream and specialist schools on adapting RSE to provide greater accessibility for neurodivergent and disabled learners to complement any additional individualised programmes. It also challenged educations role in dismantling harmful RSE tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Sensory and Communication Differences Through an Intersectional Lens
This training session explores sensory and communication differences through an intersectional lens, supporting attendees to further understand the importance of ensuring learning speaks to the experiences of diverse groups.
Honouring the Double Empathy Problem in Relationships and Sex Education
In this workshop, Kate offers attendees information about the Double Empathy Problem and considers how RSE can challenge harmful tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Puberty, Sex, and Relationships for Young People with Neurodivergence webinar
In this training webinar, Kate had the pleasure of joining Lynn McCann from Reachout ASC and autistic trainer, Dean Beadle to talk all things puberty, sex and relationships for neurodivergent children and young people.
Making RSE Accessible to People with Speech, Language and Communication Differences
A presentation designed for the Sex Education Forum's Spring RSE Members Event addressing accessibility in RSE for people with speech, language and communication differences from a systemic and structural perspective, as well as practically speaking adaptations, in the classroom.
Accessible RSE in Mainstream: Adaptations Enhance Interventions
In this workshop, Kate facilitated sessions for PSHE Co-Ordinators across Derbyshire mainstream and specialist schools on adapting RSE to provide greater accessibility for neurodivergent and disabled learners to complement any additional individualised programmes. It also challenged educations role in dismantling harmful RSE tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Sensory and Communication Differences Through an Intersectional Lens
This training session explores sensory and communication differences through an intersectional lens, supporting attendees to further understand the importance of ensuring learning speaks to the experiences of diverse groups.
Honouring the Double Empathy Problem in Relationships and Sex Education
In this workshop, Kate offers attendees information about the Double Empathy Problem and considers how RSE can challenge harmful tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Puberty, Sex, and Relationships for Young People with Neurodivergence webinar
In this training webinar, Kate had the pleasure of joining Lynn McCann from Reachout ASC and autistic trainer, Dean Beadle to talk all things puberty, sex and relationships for neurodivergent children and young people.
Making RSE Accessible to People with Speech, Language and Communication Differences
A presentation designed for the Sex Education Forum's Spring RSE Members Event addressing accessibility in RSE for people with speech, language and communication differences from a systemic and structural perspective, as well as practically speaking adaptations, in the classroom.
Accessible RSE in Mainstream: Adaptations Enhance Interventions
In this workshop, Kate facilitated sessions for PSHE Co-Ordinators across Derbyshire mainstream and specialist schools on adapting RSE to provide greater accessibility for neurodivergent and disabled learners to complement any additional individualised programmes. It also challenged educations role in dismantling harmful RSE tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Sensory and Communication Differences Through an Intersectional Lens
This training session explores sensory and communication differences through an intersectional lens, supporting attendees to further understand the importance of ensuring learning speaks to the experiences of diverse groups.
Honouring the Double Empathy Problem in Relationships and Sex Education
In this workshop, Kate offers attendees information about the Double Empathy Problem and considers how RSE can challenge harmful tropes which reinforce ableist communication standards that the evidence base and lived experience feedback demonstrate has contributed to mental health problems in autistic and ADHD people.
Puberty, Sex, and Relationships for Young People with Neurodivergence webinar
In this training webinar, Kate had the pleasure of joining Lynn McCann from Reachout ASC and autistic trainer, Dean Beadle to talk all things puberty, sex and relationships for neurodivergent children and young people.
Making RSE Accessible to People with Speech, Language and Communication Differences
A presentation designed for the Sex Education Forum's Spring RSE Members Event addressing accessibility in RSE for people with speech, language and communication differences from a systemic and structural perspective, as well as practically speaking adaptations, in the classroom.
Consultancy with Education Settings
My consultancy work with education settings, at its core, strives to bring disability justice and neurodiversity-affirming approaches into the school system and environment, including the curriculum, through developing staff knowledge and skillset of how to enable learning and social safety for autistic and ADHD young people through evidence-based research and lived-experience feedback.
Each settings needs will differ, meaning consultancy work is approached on an individual basis and is achieved through a collaborative approach, which includes students and their families.
Get in touch with me to discuss your setting. I'd love to chat.
What Other People Say
‘I found Kate to be an experienced, knowledgeable and passionate neurodiversity advocate who delivered her training in a way that was accessible, supportive and encouraged curiosity and participation.
Kate fostered a safe and inclusive learning space which allowed us to ask questions and share our challenges in a supportive and kind environment. I left wishing we had more time with her and cannot wait for our paths to cross again.
Highly recommend.’
LS, Assistant SENCO, Specialist College
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