Now What? After Diagnosis: with Dr Naomi Fisher and Eliza Fricker

You've been working up to the moment for years. You've filled in forms, answered questions and persuaded your child to attend appointments. You've finally got the diagnosis - and now what?

Often, you're left with a lengthy report and perhaps some leaflets about local support groups, and nothing much else. You feel like everything should be changing, but in fact it's just about moving onto the next fight. You might feel exhausted, and worried about what this means for the future. You worked hard for this, but now you're not sure what it really means. You might have expected to feel relief (and maybe you do for a while), but part of you feels flat. What now?

In this new talk, Naomi and Eliza will talk about the process of diagnosis and what it's like to be a parent when your child has just been given an neurodevelopmental diagnosis. Naomi has worked in NHS assessment clinics, diagnosing children and teenagers with autism and ADHD. Eliza has been through the process for her child and for herself. They combine professional expertise with lived experience.

This talk will focus on the parent's experience, what that diagnosis means (and what it doesn't mean) and how to help yourself and your child. It will be compassionate, affirming and you will know that you are not alone.

This webinar will be recorded. Please choose that option at check out if you wish to watch a recording.

Previous webinar participants have said

Such a relief to be at the excellent low demand parenting seminar by Naomi Fisher and Eliza Fricker last night. Joy at not being alone in the journey and grateful for validation of another way of doing life with our lovely offspring.

This was awesome. Like, life-changing and affirmative!

Such a humble, insightful and highly informative webinar. Dr Naomi Fisher and Eliza Fricker were the perfect duo of lived experience and academic knowledge. Lots to go away with to put into practice with those we work with, plus in our own home. Would highly recommend to anyone.

Who are we?

Dr Naomi Fisher is a clinical psychologist and author of Changing Our Minds: How Children Can Take Control of their Own Learning and A Different Way to Learn, Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education.

Eliza Fricker is an illustrator and author of The Family Experience of PDA and Can't Not Won't, the Sunday Times Bestseller. She is the mother of an autistic child who has struggled with school attendance.

Together, Naomi and Eliza are the authors of When The Naughty Step Makes Things Worse and The Teenager's Guide to Burnout.

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