Meet Your Brain: Appreciating and Navigating Neurodiversity

Meet Your Brain: Appreciating and Navigating Neurodiversity is designed to expand your understanding of the brain’s structure, function, and development. This training offers insights into how brain cell communication shapes behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and covers the entire span of brain development from pre-birth through adulthood.

Participants will explore the concept of neurodiversity, understanding its causes – such as genetics, infections, and environmental factors – and how to leverage neuroplasticity to support brain development and regeneration. This training is ideal for professionals seeking to enhance their knowledge of brain function and apply this understanding to support neurodiverse individuals effectively.

Meet Your Brain: Appreciating and Navigating Neurodiversity is available through attending a pre-scheduled training session, scheduling an onsite session, or as a Train-the-Trainer model, allowing your organization to integrate this knowledge into your training programs. For more information or to explore your options please contact the Service Alternatives Training Institute.

Through completing this training, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the differences between types of cells which make up the brain and how the communication between those cells facilitates our behavior, thoughts, and emotions.

2. Identify the main structures of the human brain and their functions.

3. Describe changes in brain development before and after birth through adulthood.

4. Appreciate the concept of neurodiversity and its various causes: genetics, brain

infections, and environmental factors like chemical exposure or oxygen deprivation.

5. Recognize which activities can facilitate brain development and regeneration through the mechanism of neuroplasticity.

6. Engage in brain boosting activities with the people they support.

This training is designed for Direct Support Professionals.

7 hours