One of the biggest misconceptions in parenting and education is that behaviour is something to be managed. We often focus on what we can see - the tears, the anger, the refusal, the shouting, the withdrawal - without asking what might be happening underneath.

For many families, summer term feels exciting. Sports Day. School trips. Transition days. Residential visits. Summer fetes. Leavers' celebrations. New teachers. New classrooms. Maybe even a whole new school waiting in September. To most people, these are positive events. But for many neurodivergent children, they represent something very different. They represent change. And when a child is already working incredibly hard just to get through a normal school day, change can be