Overview
These termly sessions are a professional group for SENCOs to get support with the neurodevelopmental pre-assessment pathway.
There is a theme for each session, and time for questions and answers, case discussion and updates about the pathway.
Dates and themes
Sessions are all between 1 and 3pm. The first hour is themed, the second hour gives a chance for updates on the pathway and questions and answers.
Future dates include:
- 13 October 2025 – Supporting the Neurodevelopmental Next Steps Form Process, with Mary Trotman CYPNP and Ashley Bloom Educational Psychology.
- 11 February 2026
Book a place
Sessions are run virtually, through Microsoft Teams.
SENCOs who have attended previously will be sent a link. New SENCOs wishing to attend should register by emailing AutismADHDPreassessmentPathway@somerset.gov.uk
A Microsoft Teams meeting invite will be sent out to everyone previously, or newly, registered.
Watch again
Neurodevelopmental Next Steps Form
You can watch again the session with Educational Psychology and the CYPNP on filling in the Next Steps form from October 2025.
Assessments, Right to Choose, and providing support based on need
You can watch again the session with Educational Psychology and the CYPNP on Assessments, Right to Choose, and providing support based on need from July 2025, or download the presentation.
Reasonable adjustments
You can watch again the session with Educational Psychology and the CYPNP on reasonable adjustments for neurodivergent children and young people from February 2025, or download the presentation.
Neuro-affirming environments
You can watch again the session with the Access to Inclusion Advisory Teachers on neuro-affirming environments from June 2024, or download the neuro-affirming environments presentation. The session encourages you to use the Checklist for a neuro-affirmative classroom which can be downloaded below.
Demand avoidance
You can watch again the session with the Children and Young People Neurodevelopmental Partnership Occupational Therapy Lead and Educational Psychology Lead on demand avoidance from March 2024.
Masking and autism
You can watch again the session with the Children and Young People Neurodevelopmental Partnership Occupational Therapy Lead on masking and autism from November 2023.