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The Tricky Trio: Understanding AuDHD, PDA and RSD to Support Your Most Misunderstood Students

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This course reframes the classroom behaviours that leave teachers feeling stuck – refusal, emotional explosions, school avoidance, and hypersensitivity to feedback – as neurological responses, not motivational failures. You will learn why AuDHD students present differently from students with a single diagnosis, how PDA and RSD operate beneath the surface of everyday school life, and which low-demand strategies actually work when traditional approaches have made things worse. Designed to fit within PD and CPD blocks, with language changes and practical tools you can use the same day.

What Will You Learn?

  • Explain why AuDHD students present differently from students with autism or ADHD alone, and why single-profile strategies often backfire
  • Distinguish PDA from oppositional defiant behaviour and identify which common classroom responses inadvertently escalate demand avoidance
  • Recognise the everyday classroom moments that trigger Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and apply protective language that reduces the risk
  • Use low-demand teaching strategies including indirect language, meaningful choice, and collaborative instruction in real classroom contexts
  • Build a step-by-step school reintegration plan for a student experiencing emotionally based school avoidance
  • Communicate AuDHD, PDA, and RSD profiles clearly to sceptical colleagues and school leadership in a way that builds shared understanding
  • Write neurodiversity-affirming education plans that move beyond compliance-focused goals toward genuine participation and wellbeing
  • Audit your own classroom language and routines for hidden demand triggers and make targeted adjustments without overhauling your whole practice

Course Content

The Tricky Trio: What AuDHD, PDA and RSD Actually Are

  • Beyond the Single Diagnosis: How AuDHD Creates a Profile All Its Own
  • PDA Is Not a Choice: What Pathological Demand Avoidance Really Looks Like at School
  • Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: The Emotional Intensity Hiding Behind Everyday Feedback
  • How To: Tell the Difference Between the Tricky Trio and Oppositional Behaviour

Why the Usual Toolkit Fails These Students

Low-Demand Strategies That Actually Work

Emotionally Based School Avoidance and Reintegration

Communicating and Planning for the Tricky Trio

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