Summary of Webinars
prerecorded by BDA Autism Sub group and accessed by scrolling down this page.
- Understanding Autism - January 2025 - no longer available
- Overview of BDA Autism position statement - March 2025
- Neuroaffirming care - March 2025
- Sensory differences and impact on eating - May 2025
- Highly restrictive intakes ARFID and Autism- July 2025
- Understanding Eating behaviours in Autistic people
- Understanding Eating Behaviours in Autistic people - Autistica
- Understanding Autistic Burnout and the Impact on Food and Eating
- Understanding and Supporting PDA - December 2025
2 and 3. BDA:Position Statement overview followed by Autistic Girls Network presentation on Neuroaffirming Care- March 2025
4. Sensory differences and impact on eating - May 2025
Laura shared her professional and lived experiences of autistic sensory differences to help expand our understanding of this complex area. Topics of interoception and misophonia will be included. Laura will also explore how autistic sensory experiences can impact eating and relationships with food. Laura will provide us with practical suggestions of how we can offer neuro-affirming support to autistic people with sensory-based eating differences.
About Laura - Laura Hellfeld is an independent nurse educator, speaker and writer. Through her company Neurodivergent Nurse Consulting, Laura offers support to individuals, families and professionals to enable a greater understanding and acceptance of Neurodivergent individuals. Laura is a late identified Autistic, PDA and ADHD-er and also parent to Neurodivergent children
Autistic Sensory Differences Eating webinar resource list.docx 1
5. Highly Restricitive intakes and ARFID in Autism
Advanced Eating Disorders Dietitian, Paola Falcoski, presents an overview on ARFID, the nervous sytem and Co-regulation, together with practical stategies to support clients.
Paola Falcoski - Slides
Webinar resources
- Practical Advice and Tools for patients with a sensory restrictive eating disorder admitted to acute hospital wards
- Emergency re-feeding plans for patients with a sensory restrictive eating disorder admitted to to acute hospital wards
- Adult ARFID Severity Index and Severity Matrix Tool
- Children and Young People ARFID Severity Index and Severity Matrix Tool
- What is co-regulation? A Guide to nervous System Harmony
- Polyvagal Chart
- Survey and certificate of attendance
7. Understanding Eating Behaviours in Autistic people - Autistica
8. Understanding Autistic Burnout and the Impact on Food and Eating - October 2025
As not all questions were able to be answered on Monday, the autism sub-group have provided some thoughts re: the unanswered questions on the attached pdf below which we hope will be useful. Please do use our private Facebook page or our discussion forum to ask further questions and to help support each other in our practice.
Click here to view the answered chat questions and webinar resorces
9. Understanding and Supporting PDA
Asher Jenner, used her lived experience of PDA and eating disorder to share understanding of PDA and its impact on eating and developement of eating disorder. Asher outlined why typical support approaches can be unhelpful or harmful to people with PDA and provided recommendations when supporting clients.
Speaker and recording
- Asher Jenner