Janice Alasdair
Special Education Teacher
Used Tes Safeguarding Training occasionally for 3-4 years
Mar 2026
The courses are informative but very negative. The language around neurodiversity is all about there being something wrong with the person; the person is a problem, the person has problems, the person needs to be handled. There is an expectation that a neurodiverse person will be a disruptive influence in class and will disrupt the learning of others. That neurodiverse people will be hard work and there is something wrong with them. This mindset will surely leek into the classroom and negatively affect the self image and self esteem of the neurodiverse person. At no point are the advantages of neurodiversity mentioned. Greta Tunberg would never have started her campaign as a 15 year old teenager if she was not autistic as a neuronormative teenager would have been too worried about how they looked or what people thought of them. ADHD people can hyperfocus on something they find interesting. My ADHD daughter got into Oxford University studying PPE.
Janice Alasdair found Tes Safeguarding Training :
- Improves teacher knowledge
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Improves school processes
- Provides school data
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