🧩 AUTISM + ADHD COMPARISON (CORE DIFFERENCES)
- Social communication differences → Inattention / hyperactivity
- Repetitive behaviours → Restlessness
🌍 SOCIAL MODEL OF DISABILITY
✔ Focus on environment, not “fixing the person”
Society should:
- Remove barriers
- Provide adjustments
- Be flexible
- Support communication needs
- Listen to lived experience
💡 The issue is often the environment, not the person.
🌱 STRENGTHS OF AUTISTIC & ADHD PEOPLE
People may have:
- 🔎 Attention to detail
- 🎨 Creativity
- 💙 Honesty and loyalty
- 🧠 Strong memory
- 💡 Problem-solving skills
🌍 REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES
People may find difficulty with:
- Crowded places
- Noise overload (shops, airports)
- Transport systems
- Self-service machines
- Unpredictable environments
💡 These are environmental barriers, not personal failings.
🧠 AUTISM DIAGNOSIS & HISTORY
- Autism is a spectrum condition
- Asperger’s is now included under ASD
- Diagnosis considers behaviour, development, communication
- Can be diagnosed in childhood or adulthood
📊 LEVELS OF SUPPORT (DSM-5)
- Level 1 → needs support
- Level 2 → substantial support
- Level 3 → very substantial support
💙 KEY SUPPORT STRATEGIES
- Visual schedules
- Routine and structure
- Sensory breaks
- Clear communication
- Therapy (CBT, OT, speech therapy)
- Social support
- Reasonable adjustments
🧾 EASY READ SUMMARY
- Autism and ADHD are brain differences
- People learn and experience the world differently
- Support helps people succeed
- Everyone deserves respect
🧠 POWERPOINT MASTER STRUCTURE
Slide set (combined across all versions):
- Title
- What is neurodiversity
- Autism overview
- ADHD overview
- AuDHD
- Nervous system basics
- Sensory processing
- Executive function
- Mental health links
- Epilepsy overview
- Strengths
- Real-life challenges
- Social model of disability
- Support strategies
- Similarities & differences
- Inclusion & society
- Key takeaways
- Resources
📝 QUIZ / KNOWLEDGE CHECK (COMBINED)
Example Questions:
- What is autism?
- What is ADHD?
- What does AuDHD mean?
- What is sensory overload?
- What is executive function?
- What is neurodiversity?
Answers:
- ✔ Brain-based differences
- ✔ Attention, communication, sensory processing differences
- ✔ Both autism and ADHD
- ✔ Too much sensory input
- ✔ Planning and organisation skills
- ✔ All brains are different
📚 RESOURCES (GLOBAL)
- National Autistic Society
- Autism Speaks
- NHS
- CDC
- WHO Mental Health
- Epilepsy Foundation
- Mind (UK)
- PubMed Central
💙 FINAL MESSAGE
🧠 Autism and ADHD are not illnesses
🌍 Neurodiversity is part of human variation
💙 People are not broken
🌱 Environments can be improved
🤝 Inclusion comes from understanding
🧠 Every brain deserves respect
🧠🧩 AUTISM, ADHD, EPILEPSY & MENTAL HEALTH — COMPLETE EDUCATION PACK
📘 SECTION 1 — CORE OVERVIEW
Autism, ADHD, and epilepsy may occur:
- On their own
- Together
- Alongside mental health conditions
Each person is unique.
They affect:
- Thinking
- Communication
- Behaviour
- Sensory processing
- Emotional regulation
💡 There is no single way to experience them.
🧩 AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD)
Autism affects:
- Communication
- Social interaction
- Sensory processing
- Emotional regulation
Common difficulties:
- Social rules
- Change and unpredictability
- Sensory overload (noise, light, touch, smell)
- Expressing emotions
Strengths:
- 🧠 Memory
- 🎨 Creativity
- 💙 Honesty
- 🔎 Attention to detail
- 💡 Problem-solving
⚡ ADHD (CORE TRAITS)
Affects:
- Attention
- Impulsivity
- Activity levels
Common traits:
- Distractibility
- Forgetting tasks
- Fidgeting
- Interrupting
- Hyperfocus
⚡🧠 EPILEPSY
A neurological condition causing seizures due to brain electrical activity.
Key features:
- Can start at any age
- Can be long-term or intermittent
- Triggered by stress, fatigue, illness, lack of sleep
⚠️ Sometimes anxiety can look similar to seizures.
🔗 CO-OCCURRENCE
Autism, ADHD, and epilepsy can overlap.
- Shared brain pathways
- Increased sensory stress
- Higher support needs in some cases
😟 MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTIONS
Common experiences:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Stress
- Burnout
- Sleep difficulties
Causes:
- Sensory overload
- Social misunderstanding
- Chronic stress
- Communication barriers
🧠 NERVOUS SYSTEM LINKS
Controls:
- Thoughts
- Emotions
- Movement
- Sensory input
In neurodivergence:
- Stronger or faster signals
- Difficult regulation
- Heightened stress responses
🧩 SIMILARITIES & DIFFERENCES
Similarities:
- Executive dysfunction
- Sensory differences
- Emotional regulation issues
- Sleep problems
Differences:
| Autism | ADHD |
|---|---|
| Routine preference | Impulsivity |
| Social communication differences | Inattention & hyperactivity |
| Repetitive behaviours | Restlessness |
🌍 SOCIAL MODEL OF DISABILITY
✔ Focus on environment, not the person
Society should:
- Remove barriers
- Provide adjustments
- Be flexible
- Support communication
- Listen to lived experience
🌱 STRENGTHS
People may have:
- Attention to detail
- Creativity
- Honesty
- Memory strengths
- Problem-solving skills
🌍 REAL-LIFE CHALLENGES
- Noise and crowds
- Transport systems
- Shops and public spaces
- Unpredictable environments
💡 These are barriers, not personal failures.
🧠 DIAGNOSIS & SUPPORT LEVELS
- Autism is a spectrum
- Asperger’s now part of ASD
- Diagnosis can happen at any age
DSM-5 Support Levels:
- Level 1 → support needed
- Level 2 → substantial support
- Level 3 → very substantial support
💙 SUPPORT STRATEGIES
- Structure and routine
- Visual supports
- Sensory breaks
- Therapy (CBT, OT, speech therapy)
- Medication (where appropriate)
- Clear communication
- Reasonable adjustments
🧾 EASY READ SUMMARY
- Autism and ADHD are brain differences
- People experience the world differently
- Support improves outcomes
- Everyone deserves respect
🧠 MASTER POWERPOINT STRUCTURE
- Title
- Neurodiversity
- Autism overview
- ADHD overview
- Epilepsy overview
- Mental health links
- Nervous system
- Sensory processing
- Executive function
- Strengths
- Real-world challenges
- Social model
- Support strategies
- Differences & similarities
- Key messages
- Resources
📝 QUIZ (COMBINED)
- What is autism?
- What is ADHD?
- What is epilepsy?
- What is sensory overload?
- What is executive function?
- What is neurodiversity?
Answers:
- Brain-based differences
- Attention and communication differences
- Seizure condition
- Too much sensory input
- Planning and organisation skills
- All brains are different
📚 RESOURCES
- NHS
- CDC
- WHO
- National Autistic Society
- Autism Speaks
- Epilepsy Foundation
- Mind UK
- PubMed Central
💙 FINAL MASTER MESSAGE
🧠 Neurodevelopmental conditions are not illnesses
🌍 They are natural brain differences
💙 People are not broken
🌱 Environments can be improved
🤝 Understanding builds inclusion
🧠 Every brain deserves respect
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