What’s new
For Parents
Monthly Live webinars
Coming Next:
Laura Hellfeld, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) in Focus: From Foundations of Support to Reframing Challenging Behaviour, Monday 10th Nov, 7-9pm.
Group Support Calls
Facilitated sessions where parents come together to discuss one of our webinar topics.
Coming Next:
Emotional Regulation, Wednesday 29th October, 7pm.
You may wish to watch the emotional regulation webinar by Aja Murray ahead of this session. It can be found in the webinar recordings section of the parents’ membership.
Webinars available as recordings
- Food and Eating
- Sensory Processing
- Anxiety in Autistic Children
- Masking/camouflaging
- Supporting attention and inhibition
- Emotion Regulation
- Puberty & First Periods
- Physical Activity
- Sleep
- Supporting Teens with Executive Functions
- Teens and Exams
- Autism & Friendships
- Sibling Relationships
- The role of friendships
- Toileting Concerns
- Stigma
Send your requests to hello@epicthinklearn.com
For Teachers
Live Webinars for teachers
£8 to attend live, or to add a recording £12 (+ Eventbrite fee).
Whole class resources
Only £9.99 for whole school access
These lessons will empower children with an understanding of how their brain works and strategies to help with everyday tasks.
These lessons are particularly suitable for neurodivergent children and those not yet diagnosed but will benefit all children in a class.
Academic research has shown that these thinking processes are not only related to behaviour and wellbeing but are directly related to children’s literacy and mathematics learning.
For Clinicians
On-Demand Webinars
Free pre-recorded webinar
Neurodiversity affirmative approaches”; discussing the latest research and what this means in practice.
Series of 3 Webinars – £8 each
- Cognitive functioning in children with ADHD & the impact of medication
- Depression in children with Neurodevelopmental conditions
- Masking/Camouflaging & depression in neurodivergent children.
Welcome to EPIC Think Learn
EPIC stands for Edinburgh Psychoeducation Intervention for children (and young people). Our research-based approach centres around conversations and games, which are neuroaffirmative, that is, they help your child better understand themselves and how their brain works. This facilitates their learning, behaviour and well-being.
You want your neurodivergent child to thrive. You want them to feel supported, both at home and at school; and to feel equipped to overcome any challenges they may face. But the waiting lists for neurodevelopmental assessment are long, and you worry your child will miss out in the meantime. EPIC Think Learn starts from where your child is right now. They may have a diagnosis – or not. Perhaps they have just joined the waiting list for assessment, or you have your own reasons for seeking support. Whatever brought you here, you are welcome.
At EPIC Think Learn, we take an individualised ‘toolkit’ approach. You select the strategies and resources that will work best for your child and their goals. You can further personalise the activities to reflect your child’s hobbies and interests, and vary the speed of the program to suit your daily life. But we know that people need more than just text and pre-recorded videos. So we will host regular live Q&A sessions, where we will answer your questions and guide you around the resources, so you never need to feel lost. We will also host monthly seminars on topics of interest such as sleep, masking, and eating, so you can hear from and regularly interact with top experts.
Thanks to external funding, we are able to offer individual parents a subsided membership rate of just £24 per quarter.
Welcome to a place of support and understanding.
Welcome to EPIC Think Learn.
Testimonials
“It was a breath of fresh air to get these resources. It’s quite scary as a mum when you get told these things. You join the waiting list and there is just nothing. You are expected to wait. It was so helpful to know somebody was trying to help.”
EPIC Parent
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Who Are We?
Professor Sinead Rhodes
Founder and Director
Founder of EPIC Think Learn, Sinead has spent the last 30 years researching how neurodivergent children think and learn. She is passionate about sharing research findings with those who really need them. People like you.
And that’s why EPIC Think Learn was born.
Sinead continues to work as a Researcher at The University of Edinburgh, and is committed to both expanding this field of research, and to bringing that evidence base into EPIC Think Learn.
Dr Iona Beange
Co-Founder and Director
Iona specialises in co-production of resources,
engagement and communications.
She continually updates and adapts EPIC Think Learn resources,
based on the latest research findings and feedback from our subscribers.