Tuesday, September 29, 2026

1:25 PM - 2:25 PM

Royal Poinciana

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Overview

Tanya Brooks-Cooper

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Key Learnings

1. Identify Exclusionary Barriers: Recognise how trauma-informed frameworks exclude neurodivergent brains through information overload, text-heavy resources, time blindness assumptions, and executive function demands trauma depletes. 2. Implement Practical Adaptations: Apply six strategies—visual scaffolding, external systems, reduced cognitive switching, movement integration, energy management, accessible self-regulation. Participants receive ready-to-use templates. 3. Design Accessible Practice: Using family violence and youth work examples, understand designing for neurodivergent accessibility benefits all brains under stress. Visual risk assessments, voice-to-text documentation, pictorial safety plans create trauma-informed practice working for everyone experiencing cognitive overload.