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Inclusive education, advocacy, and neurodiversity-affirming resources for parents, caregivers, students, educators, and other professionals.

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School Advocacy & Supports for Parents & Families

Accommodations Are Rights, Not Privileges

Supporting Students Through Task Avoidance

Supporting Students Through Task Avoidance

Jillian explains why accommodations are not privileges to be removed at the adult's discretion.

Needs and accommodations are not privileges which can be offered or withheld at the adult's discretion. 

Supporting Students Through Task Avoidance

Supporting Students Through Task Avoidance

Supporting Students Through Task Avoidance

Strategies for supporting kids and students through task avoidance, by Jillian Enright.

Strategies for supporting kids and students through task avoidance, by Jillian Enright. Spoiler alert: doubling down on the pressure will backfire. 

When The School Keeps Calling

Supporting Students Through Task Avoidance

Why Your Child's (or Student's) IEP Might Be Useless

If your child’s school often calls you about behaviour problems, here’s what you can do about it.

If your child’s school is repeatedly calling you about behaviour problems, Neurodiversity MB explains what you can do about it.

Why Your Child's (or Student's) IEP Might Be Useless

Why Your Child's (or Student's) IEP Might Be Useless

Why Your Child's (or Student's) IEP Might Be Useless

Jillian Enright explains why your child's (or student's) IEP might not be helpful to them.

Neurodiversity MB explains why your child's (or student's) IEP might not be helpful to them and to the staff at their school.

What Does Inclusive Education Mean?

Why Your Child's (or Student's) IEP Might Be Useless

What Does Inclusive Education Mean?

Jillian shares what inclusive education really means to Manitoban students, parents, and families.

Neurodiversity MB shares what inclusive education really means to Manitoban students, parents, and families.

Advocating for Kids at School

Why Your Child's (or Student's) IEP Might Be Useless

What Does Inclusive Education Mean?

Practical strategies & advice for supporting and effectively advocating for your child at school.

Clear, practical strategies and advice for supporting and effectively advocating for your child at school. 

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School Avoidance & Refusal Resources

School Avoidance & Aversive Conditioning

School Avoidance & Aversive Conditioning

School Avoidance & Aversive Conditioning

School Avoidance & Aversive Conditioning, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

School avoidance, single-trial learning, and behaviourism. I want to share 2 short anecdotes which, at first glance, may not seem to have much to do with school or, more specifically, school avoidance.

School Avoidance Is Not Pathological

School Avoidance & Aversive Conditioning

School Avoidance & Aversive Conditioning

School Avoidance Is Not Pathological, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

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After-School Restraint Collapse Is Real

School Avoidance & Aversive Conditioning

After-School Restraint Collapse Is Real

After School Restraint Collapse is Real, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

It's real, and it can be a real b!tch. After-school restraint collapse (ASRC) happens to children who really struggle to follow expectations at school and students who are overwhelmed by school.

Do the behaviours of the adults in your school match the words on your walls?


- Dr. Lori Desautels

Inclusive Education Month

If Inclusive Education Month Granted Wishes

If Inclusive Education Month Granted Wishes

If Inclusive Education Month Granted Wishes

If Inclusive Education Month Granted Wishes, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

If inclusive education month were like a genie in a lamp that could grant me three inclusion-related wishes, these would be the top three things I would change about our public education system.

Our Kids Deserve So Much Better

If Inclusive Education Month Granted Wishes

If Inclusive Education Month Granted Wishes

Our Kids Deserve So Much Better, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

Manitoba's government insists on wasting money which should be spent on bettering public education in our province. Our ministry of education just announced a campaign to enhance student presence and engagement.

Inclusive Education Month 2023

If Inclusive Education Month Granted Wishes

Inclusive Education Month 2023

Inclusive Education Month 2023, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba

February is national inclusive education month in Canada! Want to know what we do here in Manitoba to mark the occasion? Our minister of education makes a declaration, posting a picture of the proclamation on social media. That's it.

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Politics Are Killing Public Education

Attn: Wayne Ewasko, Minister of Education

Politicians, and their willingness to prioritize their own success over student needs, are hurting our children


Astronomically poor


Last night I sat through my school division’s 2023–2024 budget presentation. I can tell you it wasn’t good.


We’ve heard from multiple superintendents around our province that this year has brought some of the most difficult budgets in over a decade.


The only “increases” we saw in our funding were temporary grants, not permanent funding — grants which divisions will need to reapply for each year, if they are even available in the future.


It is time for our political representatives to stop ignoring their constituents and respond to our concerns. They must stop placating and regurgitating the same old party lines and start doing their jobs.


My son’s school is bursting at the seams. They are at capacity and the community is growing. They have nowhere for new students to go. They are cutting teacher jobs while the student population increases. Don’t tell us about “historic” and “astronomical” increases.


Our division is 300K in debt and paying ridiculous interest on that debt. We have schools falling apart.


We have some schools where their children are on the bus for more than two hours per day, sitting three to a seat. This is unacceptable.


When my son was 6 and 7 years old, I actually drove him to and from school because I wasn’t comfortable with him being stuck on a bus for two hours each school day. I had the privilege of a flexible schedule, which not every family/parent has.


That was four years ago and we’re still hearing of the same issues.


It’s getting worse instead of better


Our division’s wait times for psychological assessment increased from approximately six months to 2–3 years. What’s the point of having these services if a student needs them in grade one and doesn’t get them until grade 4?


Three years is a signifiant amount of time in the life and development of a child. So much changes in 2–3 years, especially when they’re young. So much important learning needs to happen in the early years, it’s not okay to leave students struggling for so long.


Other schools in our division are losing teachers, or teacher hours. In another school which is experiencing a lot of growth, they’ve had to cut one teacher position, which will likely lead to all (or nearly all) their classes being split-grade classes.


It’s been difficult enough for teachers to provide adequate support and differentiation for a single grade class full of students with significant varieties of skills, interests, learning styles, and needs. Now we’ll have even larger class sizes with even greater differences amongst the students.


It’s untenable and unsustainable.


Teachers and school staff are already leaving the profession in larger numbers than ever before, and our government’s response is to put even more pressure on them.

Perhaps this is what needs to happen for us to finally give our public education system the massive overhaul it truly needs.


I doubt it.


We’re in an election year and I anticipate a change in government in the Fall, so not only will we have to deal with the fallout from poor leadership over the past four years, we’ll then have to adapt and adjust to whatever changes the new party in power decides to enact.


I’m tired and I don’t even work in schools on a regular basis.


Strength in numbers


I’ve been expressing my concerns to our current minister of education for more than one year, since his appointment to the position. I expressed concerns to his predecessors.


I’ve been largely ignored, save for one or two form responses which did not actually answer questions I asked, and regurgitated the same old party lines.


I was once contacted by a representative from Minister Wayne Ewasko’s team and we arranged a virtual meeting. That person was lovely, they were professional and kind, but they have no political sway.


The minister delegated that person to “deal with” me (my words, not theirs), hoping to placate me and make me feel listened to. As wonderful as that person was, what’s the point in their hearing my concerns, when they don’t have the authority to affect change?


We need organized groups, letter-writing campaigns, and to share information on social media.


We need large numbers of us to show our representatives in government that these are politically important issues, that enough families care about our children’s education to make a difference in the upcoming election.


Because apparently these “leaders” don’t care about our children unless it impacts their jobs and positions of power, so that’s what we’ll do.


Jillian Enright, CYW, BA Psych.

Neurodiversity Manitoba

Politics are killing public education, written by Jillian Enright of Neurodiversity Manitoba.

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