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Beyond Attendance: Understanding and Responding to Anxious Non-Attendance in Autistic Young People in Mainstream Settings
Anxious non-attendance is often misunderstood as behavioural or attendance-related when it may instead reflect unmet needs, anxiety and overwhelm. Drawing on autistic lived experience, this session will explore the drivers of anxious non-attendance in autistic children and young people and share practical, neuro-affirming strategies that schools can use to improve engagement, reintegration and longer-term outcomes.