Join Us Online – Davis Neurodiversity Series
Fri 09 May
|Virtual Event in a warm online space
11 empowering sessions for parents, educators, and neurodivergent adults — just £25
Time & Location
09 May 2025, 09:30 BST – 10 May 2025, 20:00 BST
Virtual Event in a warm online space
About the Event
Because learning and thinking differently deserves understanding, not misunderstanding.
When the Neurodiversity Show 2025 was unexpectedly cancelled, we knew we didn’t want the conversations to stop. That’s why we’re inviting you to join Davis Neurodiversity Online — a two-day series of live webinars, practical insights, and open discussions from the Davis UK & Ireland team and guest expert presenters.
Together, we’ll explore empowering solutions for dyslexia, ADHD, autism, early learning challenges, and math difficulties — helping parents, educators, and adults gain tools to support neurodivergent thinkers with respect and understanding.
🗓️ Event Highlights
✔️ Discover why bright dyslexic individuals are often missed — and how to unlock their true potential.
✔️ Reframe ADHD as a difference in attention, not a deficit.
✔️ Learn practical strategies for early years learning and reading success.
✔️ Understand how the Davis Autism Approach supports identity and self-regulation.
✔️ Explore why math can be so hard for visual thinkers — and how to make it click.
✔️ Get your questions answered at our Ask a Davis Expert live Q&A session.
🎤 Featured Presenters
Richard Whitehead – Director, Davis UK & Ireland
Axel Gudmundsson – Davis Facilitator & Trainer
Cathie Geraci – Davis Autism Approach Facilitator and Stepping Stones Presenter
Sue Hall – Davis Facilitator, early years specialist
Elizabeth Currie Shier – Davis Facilitator, parenting coach
Tessa Halliwell – Davis Autism Approach Facilitator and Stepping Stones Presenter
Plus the Davis Expert Panel at our Friday evening Q&A
💻 How It Works
📅 Join live on Zoom (Friday 9 – Saturday 10 May 2025).
🎥 Attend as many sessions as you like — one registration gives access to the full event for only £25.
🔁 Can’t make a session? Replays will be available for 7 days after the event for registered participants.
💙 With the option to support Gifts for Dyslexia through an optional donation.
Event Programme
🗓️ Day 1 — Friday 9 May
09:30 – 09:50 🟢 Welcome Session
With Richard Whitehead
10:00 – 11:00🔹 The Dyslexia Nobody Sees
With Richard Whitehead
Why bright, creative dyslexic individuals often go unnoticed — and what can unlock their true potential.
11:30 – 12:30🔹 Neuroinclusive Literacy for Primary Schools — a Common Home for Phonic Responders and Non-Responders
With Axel Gudmundsson
Discover how a single, richly experiential set of learning strategies can empower all types of learners — including those who struggle with phonics — to achieve reading fluency and greater self-awareness as learners. This approach helps schools make the most of their SEN budgets, directing resources where they are needed most.
13:30 – 14:30🔹 ADHD: Disability or Gift?
With Axel Gudmundsson
A reframe of ADHD that moves beyond deficit thinking — exploring attention as a natural gift and how to manage its challenges.
15:00 – 16:00🔹 Growing Up Dyslexic — a View from Adulthood
With Carl Nigi
Carl Nigi shares his personal journey growing up dyslexic and how, as an adult, the Davis approach finally unlocked the solutions he had spent a lifetime searching for.
16:30 – 17:30🔹 The Davis Learning Strategies and Early Literacy: Giving All Children the Best Neuroinclusive Start
With Sue Hall
How to provide very young learners with strong foundations for learning through Davis Learning Strategies — an exciting new pilot project.
19:00 – 20:00 🔵 Ask a Davis Expert: Your Questions Answered
Panel Q&A with Davis Facilitators and Presenters
Bring your questions on dyslexia, ADHD, early learning and more.
🗓️ Day 2 — Saturday 10 May
10:00 – 11:00🔹 Maths Makes Sense Now: Dyscalculia and the Davis Approach
With Richard Whitehead
Why math is so often a struggle for visual learners — and how Davis tools can help make numbers meaningful.
11:30 – 12:30🔹 Non-Speaking Autistic Individuals: the Art of Understanding
With Cathie Geraci
How do we build real connection and understanding when words aren’t available? This powerful session explores ways to engage respectfully and meaningfully with non-verbal autistic individuals — drawing on the Davis Autism Approach, Davis Stepping Stones, and Cathie’s hands-on experience as a specialist facilitator.
14:00 – 15:00🔹 Autism: Pain, Purpose and Potential
With Tessa Halliwell
Supporting self-regulation, sense of self, and connection — how the Davis Autism Approach empowers individuals without labels or limits.
15:30 – 16:30🔹 Parenting Neurodivergent Children: A Strengths-Based Approach
With Elizabeth Currie Shier
Tools for parents to work with, not against, your child’s thinking style — understanding behaviour, emotions, and learning differences through a strengths-focused lens.
19:00 – 20:00 🔵 Ask a Davis Expert: Your Questions Answered
Panel Q&A with Davis Facilitators and Presenters
Bring your questions on autism, maths difficulties, parenting approaches and more.