Behaviour support · Sydney
Understanding the behaviour changes it. Punishing it rarely does.
Support for Sydney parents of neurodivergent children whose behaviour is misread as wilful, when it's usually communicative. From a UK-qualified teacher with over ten years' experience working with children and their families, including seven in a school SENCo team.
Most “behaviour problems” in neurodivergent children aren’t behaviour problems at all. They’re communication problems. A child who refuses to do their homework isn’t being defiant; they’re telling you something about executive function, anxiety, or sensory overload that they don’t yet have the words for.
Laura has over ten years’ experience working with children and their families, decoding what behaviour is actually communicating and building practical strategies that reduce flashpoints before they happen. She saw first-hand the difference between approaches that escalate and approaches that work.
What we cover
- →Reading the behaviour: what your child is communicating, not just how
- →Reducing demand sensitivity without removing all structure
- →Why consequences often make things worse, and what works instead
- →Proactive strategies: preventing the behaviour rather than responding to it
- →Scripts for the hard conversations: with your child and their school
- →Building cooperation and connection even when things are difficult