Digital Resources

At Diverse Pathways, we believe neurodiversity-affirming approaches should be a foundation for practice, not an addition or optional extra.


As a collective, we have agreed that, wherever possible, our tools and resources will remain open access so that educators, practitioners and families can use them in everyday practice. We want this work to be accessible and to support meaningful change.


If you use our materials, we ask that you clearly reference Diverse Pathways and signpost people back to our work.


If you intend to use our materials within your own professional work, training or resources, including expanding, adapting or developing your own versions from them, please seek permission first by contacting us.


Please do not duplicate, reproduce or repackage our materials without permission.

Diverse Pathways is a passion project, developed through a significant amount of freely given time, thinking and labour from our collective. Keeping much of our work open access relies on people respecting its origins, acknowledging its lineage and helping others find their way back to the original work.

Digital Resources

A Guide to Diverse Pathways for Early Childhood

A Guide to Diverse Pathways for Early Childhood

A Guide to Diverse Pathways for Early Childhood

A free introduction to the Diverse Pathways approach and a more expansive, neurodiversity-affirming view of child development.

Neurodiversity-Affirming Zones of Practice

A Guide to Diverse Pathways for Early Childhood

A Guide to Diverse Pathways for Early Childhood

A reflective tool for recognising and moving away from deficit practice towards increasingly neurodiversity-affirming approaches.

My Way to a Good Day

A Guide to Diverse Pathways for Early Childhood

A Tale of Neurodiversity: What if Children Were Plants?

A child-centred tool for exploring the people, experiences, environments and supports that contribute to a good day.

A Tale of Neurodiversity: What if Children Were Plants?

A Tale of Neurodiversity: What if Children Were Plants?

A Tale of Neurodiversity: What if Children Were Plants?

A simple visual story exploring why children need different environments, conditions and support to thrive.

The Holistic Child Profile

A Tale of Neurodiversity: What if Children Were Plants?

Autistic Play Patterns Cards

A strengths-led profile for building a richer understanding of the whole child beyond developmental checklists.

Autistic Play Patterns Cards

A Tale of Neurodiversity: What if Children Were Plants?

Autistic Play Patterns Cards

A visual card deck introducing autistic play patterns and supporting educators to notice their meaning, value and possibilities.

A letter to a parent following diagnosis

A letter to a parent following diagnosis

A letter to a parent following diagnosis

An affirming letter for families offering a different way to understand and respond to a child’s neurodivergent identity.

Play Dictionary

A letter to a parent following diagnosis

A letter to a parent following diagnosis

A practical dictionary for broadening the language we use to notice, describe and understand children’s play.

Neurodiversity Affirming CPD Journal

A letter to a parent following diagnosis

Neurodiversity Affirming CPD Journal

A reflective journal for exploring neurodiversity-affirming practice and turning professional learning into meaningful change.

Whole Body Affirmations

Autistic Sociability Creatures

Neurodiversity Affirming CPD Journal

Affirming prompts that move beyond words to support body awareness, movement, regulation and positive self-understanding.

Rest for Regulation

Autistic Sociability Creatures

Autistic Sociability Creatures

A practical resource exploring rest as an essential part of regulation, wellbeing and everyday support.

Autistic Sociability Creatures

Autistic Sociability Creatures

Autistic Sociability Creatures

A visual card deck introducing autistic play patterns and supporting educators to notice their meaning, value and possibilities.A resource exploring autistic connection, relationships and the many different ways autistic children can be social.

Autistic Play Digital Tools

Autistic Play Patterns Guidance

Autistic Play Patterns Guidance

Interactive tools to help educators notice, explore and respond to autistic play patterns in everyday practice.

Autistic Play Patterns Guidance

Autistic Play Patterns Guidance

Autistic Play Patterns Guidance

Practical guidance for recognising and responding to autistic play without redirecting it towards normative expectations.

The Playment Plan

Autistic Play Patterns Guidance

The Playment Plan

A playful alternative to traditional planning that helps educators notice, respond to and expand children’s play.

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