Lecturers and assist employees in schools should perceive the wants of neurodivergent learners.
At PAST, we’re obsessed with working with and supporting neurodivergent learners. We all know these kids and younger individuals have a lot to supply, but the training system usually fails them as a result of employees do not need the appropriate expertise and expertise. That is one thing we need to change.
PAST affords a spread of coaching programmes. They assist educating and assist employees really feel empowered and geared up to assist their neurodivergent learners meet their potential. Everybody advantages when everybody understands!
PAST founder Laura Kerbey with a duplicate of one in every of her books on Pathological Demand Avoidance
Interactive, informative, enjoyable
Our coaching is interactive, informative and enjoyable. Attendees will go away coaching periods with a ‘toolkit’ of methods and approaches that may be carried out simply in numerous studying environments.
PAST can provide bespoke packages tailor-made to your learners’ wants, providing full-day, half-day or twilight periods. In addition to coaching on autism and PDA, we are able to additionally present coaching on anxiousness, behaviour and ADHD.
Along with our bespoke packages, we additionally provide coaching on autism and PDA that the Open School Community accredits at Ranges 2 and three.
We provide all our coaching in-house or on-line.
Testimonials from shoppers
Here’s what different individuals have stated about PAST Coaching:
“Laura’s INSET on Autism, ADHD and PDA was extremely insightful and most actually a beneficial lesson for all educating employees at Newton Prep. Laura supplied a wealth of clear and concise data referring to ASD, ADHD and PDA and drew upon the various parallels between every one, suggesting helpful methods for successfully supporting pupils with a neurodivergent profile at school.”
(SENCO – Entire College in-person Coaching.)
“I watched and listened to all the things within the Easter holidays. It made an enormous influence on my follow and actually supported me in growing a constructive relationship with one in every of our college students.”
(Delegate – On-line Accredited Coaching.)
Laura Kerbey giving a presentation
Our founder
PAST was based in 2013 by Laura Kerbey. Laura has over 22 years of expertise working with neurodivergent kids and teenagers, together with as an Assistant Head Trainer and Head Trainer at a specialist faculty.
Laura can be a director of KITE Therapeutic Studying, offering bespoke EOTIS packages to kids and younger individuals who can not entry their training at school.
Most significantly, Laura is neurodivergent herself and may weave her personal lived expertise into the coaching she delivers.
Laura is the writer of ‘The Educator’s Expertise of Pathological Demand Avoidance’ and ‘The Teen’s Information to PDA’, each revealed by Jessica Kingsley Publishing.
Laura’s subsequent ebook, ‘’ will likely be revealed in Might 2026, additionally by Jessica Kingsley.
If you want to be taught extra about how PAST can assist your setting, please don’t hesitate to contact us at data@p-ast.co.uk or try our web site www.p-ast.co.uk
