This session explores the links between autism, ADHD, and anorexia and why traditional eating disorder support may need adapting. It examines sensory processing, interoception, anxiety, and demand avoidance, alongside the impact on treatment and recovery.
Learning Outcomes
Understand why anorexia is more prevalent in autistic and ADHD groups experiences.
Recognise sensory and interoceptive influences on eating responses.
Identify the role of anxiety and control.
Understand why traditional approaches may need adapting.
Apply neurodiversity-informed eating disorder support.
Our expert speaker Loren Snow is an autistic neurodiversity consultant with over ten years experience teaching people about autism. Their professional background includes supporting families with loved ones in psychiatric and eating disorder hospitals to get them back into the community or to prevent hospital admittance. They have also taught and supported tens of thousands of families, professionals, and autistic people and are one of the UK’s lead trainers for The NHS and Social Care's mandatory training on autism.
This is a free training event for parent carers of children with additional needs and/or disabilities within North Somerset. This event is also open to professionals who work with children/young people with additional needs and/or disabilities in North Somerset. Priority on place allocation will be given based on the criteria above.
On Zoom