Ronnie Young
“This is easily the best course
I have ever attended- there should be a Ronnie Young in every school
in the country” – teacher, Leeds.
Ronnie’s passion is in the fulfillment of potential, the removal
of barriers and the recognition that everyone is an individual with
strengths and weaknesses – but who may just need a different
way of doing things (and an attitude change by the rest of the world).
She has been a teacher all her working life. Following seven years
teaching English in schools, she spent some time working with excluded
students, school phobics and young offenders before going into adult
education and then further education. During her fifteen years in
further education she specialised in working with students who had
failed in schools and it was here that her interest in neuro-diversity
and communication barriers was nurtured.
She is now a freelance trainer and consultant with specialisms in
several areas. Her son’s diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome in 1997
led her to extensive research on the subject and she has trained extensively
on working with autistic spectrum disorders in both educational and
public sector settings. Her first book, 'The
Asperger Pocketbook' (Teachers’ Pocketbooks) was published
in 2009. Other areas of neuro-diversity expertise include ADHD/ADD
and dyspraxia – the latter from first hand experience as she
is herself dyspraxic.
Other areas of expertise include anger and behaviour management, inter-personal
communication skills and management of neuro-diversity, including
disability law, working with learning support workers and personalising
learning so students can achieve their full potential.
Ronnie has post-graduate degrees in education and inter-personal communication
skills. She works largely in schools, colleges and universities, although
she also trains in the NHS, the library service, social services and
the careers service. She is a visiting lecturer at the Institute of
Education, London University and is a practising OFSTED inspector
in both schools and the learning and skills sector.
Her training style is interactive and her courses emphasise learning
rather than teaching. Above all, her work is full of practical strategies
which actually make a difference.
As well as working with us, Ronnie runs her own training and development
consultancy “Neomorphosis”, which specialises in the communication
skills, management training and working with neuro-diversity.
