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The 2026-27 Federal Budget was handed down tonight. There's a lot in it. Here's what matters most for families navigating the health system, disability services and the NDIS.

I spent today at the 2026 Victorian ADHD Conference in Melbourne, and I need to talk about it. Not in a polished, "here are my professional takeaways" kind of way. More of a "sat in a dark auditorium for six hours and cried at least four times" kind of way. There were six speakers, and every single one of them, from different angles, landed on the same truth: the way we understand, support, and show up for neurodivergent people needs to change. Not in theory. In the actual ro

Em talked about masking, fluctuating capacity, the building blocks kids need to thrive, and why the way we teach is incompatible with so many brains. The thread running through all of it was one idea: we need to stop making space for difference and start expecting it.

Psychological safety is the foundation of learning, identity, and regulation. When you lead with curiosity, your child learns: my struggles make sense, my feelings matter, problems can be solved, I am understood, I am not the problem.

If you're a woman/AFAB who has spent years building elaborate systems to appear "on top of things," wondering why everything feels harder for you than it seems to for everyone else, read on. If you love someone who fits that description, read on, too.

Dr Connie Buckingham's session at the 2026 Victorian ADHD Conference tackled something that doesn't get enough airtime: the friendship challenges that come with ADHD, and what we can do about them.

Why School Support for Neurodivergent Children needs more than good intentions. Explore strategies for effective School Support for Neurodivergent Children.

Discover the insights from Sandhya Menon on the hidden shame of ADHD. Learn how the hidden shame of ADHD affects identity and growth.

With the NDIS undergoing its most significant overhaul since launch, with tighter eligibility, standardised assessments and 160,000 people expected to lose access by the end of the decade, the question of who pays for what has never been more urgent.

Today, Health Minister Mark Butler announced sweeping changes to the NDIS that will tighten eligibility, introduce standardised functional assessments, and reduce the number of participants on the scheme from 760,000 to around 600,000 by the end of the decade.

Last year, something happened to my child at his daycare that's taken me a while to process. Now, I'm ready to talk about. He was dysregulated and overwhelmed. He needed connection, support, co-regulation — all the things we know matter, but instead, they put him in a corner alone and left him there as, and I quote, "emotional child". I know this because a photo of him in this state was shared with every family in his classroom. This became his last day at the centre. In that

The words adults use about children become the words children use about themselves. When those words are rooted in deficit, disorder and dysfunction, children internalise a story about who they are that's really hard to unwrite.

This is one of the most important shifts a parent of a neurodivergent child can make: understanding that behaviour isn't the problem. It's the message.

Let's unpack five of the most common outdated beliefs about neurodivergent children and talk about what's actually going on.

Parenting Different: How to Raise Your Neurodivergent Kids to Be Their Authentic, Awesome Selves by Sarah Hayden is the book I wish had existed at the start of our journey, and it’s the one I’ll be recommending to every parent who comes after me.

Here are some of our favourite children’s books that explore neurodiversity in affirming, accessible and empowering ways.