Presentations for Schools, Parent Groups, Professional Teams
Acorn Psychology offers engaging, evidence-based presentations for schools, parent groups, educators, community organizations, and professional teams. Our presentations are designed to be practical, accessible, and immediately useful, helping attendees better understand neurodiversity, mental health, learning differences, emotional regulation, executive functioning, and child development. Sessions can be tailored for parents, teachers, clinicians, support staff, or students and range from short workshops to full professional development events. We can do them online or at your agency. Please contact us at info@acornpsychology.ca for more information. Below are examples of presentations we are able to do.
This presentation explores the many ways autism can present across children, teens, and adults, including presentations that are often overlooked or misunderstood. Topics include masking, sensory differences, social communication, emotional regulation, and how autism may present differently in girls, high-masking individuals, and those with co-occurring anxiety or ADHD
Autism (Including Atypical Presentations)
Experience Dyslexia is an interactive simulation designed to help participants better understand the day-to-day challenges experienced by individuals with dyslexia and other learning differences. Through hands-on activities and discussion, attendees gain insight into how learning differences impact reading, writing, processing, confidence, and classroom participation — while also learning practical strategies that truly help.
Experience Dyslexia
This workshop focuses on the real-life skills students need to manage school demands, including organization, planning, time management, task initiation, memory, and study strategies. Participants will leave with practical tools to help reduce overwhelm, build independence, and support academic success at home and in the classroom.
Executive Functionning Skills
This presentation helps parents and educators better understand anxiety in children and teens, including what anxiety looks like behaviourally, emotionally, and physically. Attendees will learn practical, evidence-based strategies to support anxious children while fostering resilience, confidence, emotional regulation, and healthy coping skills.