Lesson 1 What is Executive Functioning and Autistic Inertia
Lesson 2: Myths and Misconceptions about Executive Functioning, ADHD & Autistic Inertia
Lesson 3: Time Management in the Classroom: Why it’s so difficult and how to make it easier.
Lesson 4: Key Strategies for Supporting Executive Functioning at School & Home
Lesson 5: Classroom Strategies for Building Executive Functioning Skills
Lesson 6: Understanding Autistic Inertia and ADHD Paralysis
Lesson 7: Emotional Regulation and the Importance of Safe Spaces
Executive Functioning Training
Educators Guide to Executive Functioning – Why it impacts Learning and Behaviour & What to do
A$149.00
Join Dean Beadle, International Speaker & Autism Expert, for your Executive Functioning Training, where he gives strategies from his lived experience and evidence-based research.
✅ 2 Hours, 7 Lessons
✅ Online On-demand Course
✅ 6 Months to Complete
⏰ Time saver E-Book: Action Planner & 100s of Accommodations & Adjustments
⏰ Time saver: 7 Lesson Summaries to refer back to forever
✅ Transcript to refer back to forever
✅ Certificate of Completion
✅ Handout includes Additional Helpful Tips
✅ Email questions directly to Sue Larkey
✅ 100% Money back – if, after the first two lessons, you decide the course is not for you
✅ IT support
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This Executive function training is for any Educators who have students who may have the current behaviours:
- Calling out,
- Constantly losing things,
- Get upset by minor things,
- Procrastination,
- Struggling with multistep tasks,
- Inflexible thinking,
- Overreact to negative feedback,
- Challenges with Time Management,
- Rushing through Activities without checking,
- Struggles with Emotional Regulation.
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Meet Dean Beadle
Dean Beadle is a renowned autistic conference speaker, INSET (Professsional Development) trainer, and workplace accessibility consultant with over 20 years of experience. He has delivered more than 1,000 keynotes, seminars, INSET sessions, and webinars across the globe, including Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, with webinars reaching audiences in Asia and America.
Dean’s Professional Development sessions for schools focus on helping staff better understand autistic communication styles and offering practical strategies to reduce anxiety and distress for autistic learners. In addition, he is a passionate advocate for creating accessible workplaces, having delivered impactful sessions to organizations such as YouviewTV, Ambassador Theatre Group, Sopra Steria, Balfour Beatty, Scotiabank, and the International Rescue Committee, among others. His workplace sessions aim to shift attitudes and foster environments where autistic employees can thrive.
Driven by a commitment to challenging harmful stereotypes and addressing societal inequalities faced by autistic individuals, Dean continues to inspire change through his work. Alongside his advocacy, Dean is also a singer, performing at charity events, conferences, and touring his own show, My Life in Songs and Stories, accompanied by a pianist.
Dean holds honorary roles with three UK charities.
Meet Sue Larkey
Sue Larkey is a highly respected educator, author, and speaker with extensive experience in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She has taught students in both mainstream and special education settings, combining practical experience with extensive research. Sue holds a Master’s in Special Education and has completed the research sections of her Doctorate in Education.
Sue’s podcast, the “Sue Larkey Podcast,” has over 1.4 million downloads across more than 200 episodes and is the #1 ranked Apple Podcast in Australia in the Course category. Her podcast resources are used by leading universities, including Monash University and Canberra University, to train teachers. She also has a global following, with over 135,000 subscribers to her weekly e-newsletter in more than 30 countries and a community of 130,000 Facebook followers.
Sue has authored over 18 books aimed at educators, teacher assistants, and parents/carers, and is a former winner of the Naturally Autistic International Award for Community Contribution. She has delivered hundreds of speeches at both international and national conferences, earning recognition as a trusted source of knowledge, compassion, and inspiration for educators, support workers, and families.
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EVALUATIONS FROM PARTICIPANTS
(100% RECOMMEND THE COURSE TO OTHERS)
| How useful was the course? | Would you recommend this course to others? | If “YES” would recommend: What would you say to people who were considering to doing the course? |
| Very Good | Yes | Dean has a wonderful sense of humour and his lived experience allows for invaluable insight into the complexities and challenges of EF for autistic people. He shows incredible compassion to those who are autistic as well as to those who are here to help change the environment for those who need it changed. |
| Excellent | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | Make notes and there is so much valuable information in this presentation, gives you a very different view supports the understanding of ASD and Neuro-Divergent people in an easy-to-understand presentation by Dean. |
| Excellent | Yes | Make notes, it gives you a whole different view of ASD and Neuro-divergent people. |
| Excellent | Yes | The course is very informative and very educational about executive functioning in all age groups. |
| Good | Yes | Good practical suggestions |
| Very Good | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | Content is fantastic, thorough and moves at a pace which can be followed. Lots of helpful insights and strategies to support neurodiverse children outside and within the classroom. |
| Excellent | Yes | I just complete a great course on Executive functioning delivered by Dean Beadle. I learnt so many clear and practical ways to support my classroom but also my personal life, living alongside Neurodiverse family. |
| Excellent | Yes | Not just teaching but this course would also benefit parents of autistic children |
| Excellent | Yes | Great positive approach to suggest change the learning environment not the learner. Each lesson had factual support and and provided suggestions of ways to help our learners. |
| Excellent | Yes | It will help you understand the need to change the environment for our ASD young people. |
| Excellent | Yes | I’ve already recommended it to families I work with. Dean gives such a great insight into the lived experience, especially when working with young people who struggle to put how they are feeling into words. I work with a young man who regularly says that his mum, teachers and myself just don’t get what he is saying. After this training there were a few areas where he was very surprised to see that I now understood more clearly. Thanks Dean! |
| Excellent | Yes | You’ll find some “Aha” moments- very relatable. All teachers should have access to this course |
| Very Good | Yes | Helps in understanding ‘won’t is can’t/unable’ to do something |
| Good | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | Great insight and awareness |
| Very Good | Yes | Practical, accessible in chunks, interesting , real |
| Very Good | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | Very informative and gives lots of examples and ideas to support. |
| Excellent | Yes | Amazing insights presented in a clear concise manner with understandable examples |
| Excellent | Yes | Great practical strategies given to try and help us understand the struggles people have with executive functioning and Autistic Inertia. |
| Excellent | Yes | Lots of useful practical strategies you can try and put in place, along with a greater understanding of why certain behaviours occur. |
| Excellent | Yes | Learning to understand executive functioning issues from somebody with experience of having executive functioning issues. |
| Excellent | Yes | This course will open your mind and hearts to Autistic Neurodivergents! |
| Very Good | Yes | |
| Very Good | Yes | Very informative, especially coming from a person dealing with autism |
| Very Good | Yes | Well-presented and an understanding from an Autistic person’s point of view. |
| Excellent | Yes | |
| Good | Yes | It is a good reminder of reasons why some people think the way they do, and it builds compassion in the viewer. |
| Very Good | Yes | It’s very useful, easy to understand and can walk away with useful strategies and resources |
| Very Good | Yes | Short, sharp, to the point and useful |
| Excellent | Yes | PLEASE TAKE A LOOK PRESENTATION AND RESOURCES PROVIDED ARE GREAT AND HAVING THE PRESENTER SOMEONE WHO LIVES THS LIFE EVERYDAY WAS SO ENLIGHTING . |
| Excellent | Yes | the whole presentation is easy to follow and the presenter Dean is great his ability to mix humor and knowledge really brings the hole thing together. |
| Excellent | Yes | Great information for anyone working with Autistic children, delivered very well by someone who is autistic. |
| Excellent | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | Very informative with the right amount of humour to keep you engaged! Very enjoyable. Dean reminds me of Russell Brand |
| Excellent | Yes | Helps neurotypical people to understand the functioning of Autistic people and difficulties they face undertaking everyday tasks. |
| Excellent | Yes | would recommend this course to all schools & parents who are struggling with their children |
| Excellent | Yes | I would recommend that you do this course. It will help you understand ASD more. |
| Excellent | Yes | Everyone |
| Excellent | Yes | The course provides lots of information. |
| Excellent | Yes | absolutely all schools should take have these lessons as part of their curriculum. |
| Excellent | Yes | It is a must! Totally engaging and filled with enlightening insights and delivered with passion and love. |
| Excellent | Yes | Everyone |
| Yes | Very informative and presented in an interesting/ engaging way. | |
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| Very Good | Yes | Good for moderate functioning students |
| Excellent | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | By doing the course you will gain valuable knowledge |
| Excellent | Yes | By doing the course you will gain valuable knowledge. |
| Good | Yes | |
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| Excellent | Yes | Very good |
| Very Good | Yes | Very relatable and informative |
| Very Good | Yes | Very Informative |
| Excellent | Yes | knowledge is golden |
| Very Good | Yes | Knowledge is the key’ makes our job happier |
| Excellent | Yes | Do this course, it’s amazing and on the money. |
| Excellent | Yes | Do this course, it’s amazing and on the money. |
| Excellent | Yes | I would tell them that this course is so enlightening and gives a perspective which allows the individual to have a glimpse of the world through the lens of an autistic person. |
| Very Good | Yes | Great course to understand young ASD people and help them better. |
| Very Good | Yes | helpful to support neurodiverse students |
| Excellent | Yes | It is great into focusing into the real issues. |
| Excellent | Yes | Important and interesting information to support children (and adults) with executive functioning challenges) |
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| Excellent | Yes | I thoroughly enjoyed this course and could relate to topics discussed. Brought me back down to appreciate the struggles that ASD folk face every day. Brought me patience. |
| Excellent | Yes | That it makes you think more and look more into why the student is doing what they do. |
| Excellent | Yes | It will reinforce the importane of scaffolding, structuring and modelling for all students but it will offer non-linear ideas to support teaching. |
| Excellent | Yes | So practical and helpful |
| Excellent | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | it explains how important it is to stop take focus and understand why a student or colleague has set behavior to certain tasks |
| Excellent | Yes | If we are planning to make the changes so desperately required in today’s education system and world in general this is what we all need to watch and really hear. |
| Very Good | Yes | |
| Satisfactory | Yes | It’s not strong on theory, research or strategies, but it is useful to hear someone’s first-hand experience of EF difficulties. |
| Excellent | Yes | I would and have recommended this course to other teachers , this course has given me further insight and a better understanding in meeting my students needs across a range of challenging situations and tasks. Thank you 🙂 |
| Excellent | Yes | A useful course for ideas/inspiration on how to make adjustments in the school environment. It was excellent to have the perspective of someone with Autism and see their struggles in the day to day. Helps you to understand their point of view |
| Excellent | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | Course was very easy to listen to and understand. By hearing Dean’s stories it certainly gives a different perspective. So much of what he said rang true about how we react in the classroom. Certainly prompted me to think a little longer before opening my mouth. While I think I do many of the things suggested – there’s still a lot of room for improvement. |
| Very Good | Yes | It’s very empowering and resourceful. You will learn lots |
| Excellent | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | This course has helped me to become a more understanding and compassionate person |
| Excellent | Yes | |
| Very Good | Yes | Most useful to both teachers and families |
| Excellent | Yes | Well presented and interesting, variety of strategies that were clearly explained with examples. |
| Excellent | Yes | Best part was the insight that Dean provided into autistic ways of thinking, being and doing. Knowledge and understanding of what’s going on for the kids in my class/es has grown hugely. Thanks |
| Good | Yes | watch it at 1.25 speed. |
| Excellent | Yes | That it helps to give you insight into what our students are dealing with. |
| Very Good | Yes | Very accessibly with the content being broken down into 7 lessons. Each lesson builds well on previous information. The presenter, Dean Beadle, is very knowledgable and provides insights which help to develop one’s understanding of what executive functioning is, what challenges one may experience and what supports can be put in place. |
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| Excellent | Yes | this experience come from a person who is Autistic and willing to share all the information to help other to understand and work with the neurodivergent better . |
| Very Good | Yes | Wonderful to hear from Dean, who is speaking from personal experience. |
| Excellent | Yes | This course will give a real insight into how autistic young people function and will give you the understanding and many strategies to support them intheir learning and daily lives. |
| Very Good | Yes | It’s a good, short outline of Executive function challenges and autistic inertia and provides strategies to help with these. |
| Very Good | Yes | This is a wonderful introductory course to support your understanding of executive functioning and autistic inertia and to identify strategies to support their success in the classroom and at home. |
| Excellent | Yes | This course not only provides understanding but practical strategies in succinct and manageable lessons. It provided notes to refer to and stories were so relatable. Listening to Dean share stories really helped to understand what is going on for him and what he needs. It has helped me to understand more for my son and students. Thank you so much |
| Excellent | Yes | Colleagues I work with at a primary school. |
| Excellent | Yes | If you would like to better understand why a child in your class/care seams to freeze up and not respond this is a great short course that could help you better understand what is happening in their minds. |
| Excellent | Yes | Very informative |
| Very Good | Yes | Well worth it. |
| Excellent | Yes | Great information, well presented |
| Very Good | Yes | Dean has a wonderful sense of humour and his lived experience restults in invaluable insight into the complexities and challenges of EF for neurodivergent people. Thank you. |
| Excellent | Yes | It’s a game changer! Dean is brilliant! |
| Excellent | Yes | That the value lies in the fact that it is delivered from a personal viewpoint, with real life examples. Also useful information and strategies that can be easily put into place. |
| Excellent | Yes | The course gives you a lived perspective, it allows you to open your mind to the challenges our young neurodivergent students face in the school environment |
| Very Good | Yes | It is a must to help you understand autistic people. |
| Excellent | Yes | Very helpful in understanding the students who is frozen and how to hopefully get them to go. |
| Very Good | Yes | A better understanding in the reasons behind the struggles of people with ASD/ADHD. |
| Excellent | Yes | I would say it is practical information which is incredibly useful and easy to understand and implement. Thank you for what do, it has helped our family so much x |
| Excellent | Yes | |
| Very Good | Yes | The course thankfully looks right outside of the conventional deficit model and focuses on positivity. |
| Excellent | Yes | It gives practical help and makes things very clear – eg why ADHD/ASD children seem to do nothing. |
| Good | Yes | It was good and had some basic strategies for the classroom. |
| Excellent | Yes | Very insiteful and empowering |
| Excellent | Yes | That it helps teachers to understand their students with autism and why certain tasks/things can be challenging |
| Excellent | Yes | Listen and totally think of the children in your care. I feel i was reminded of different strategies to embed and practice to implement. Most importantly changes to the environment not the child. |
| Excellent | Yes | This course gives wonderful insight about the needs and difficulties faced around executive functioning and is presented by a neurodiverse person who still struggles daily with executive functioning. Practical strategies are given for how to support young people at home and school. |
| Excellent | Yes | The course content will make them understand whats been going on all this time with students who are struggling with EXF and A I , I wish I had seen this course years ago! |
| Excellent | Yes | That the way Dean explains what it’s like to be autistic, his points of view help me to understand better what may be going on for the children in my care. The importance of being compassionate and to let the children now that I hear them and believe them in their struggles. |
| Excellent | Yes | I would let them know that the information is chunked into small parts that makes it easy to fit in and around other tasks. I would you you will learn lots about executive functioning. Lots of great practical strategies to support young people with neurodiverse students. |
| Good | Yes | You will have a better understanding of the world in which autistic students live in and how tricky school can be. |
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| Excellent | Yes | All staff int he school. |
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| Very Good | Yes | Dean delivers a well thought out course, interweaving lived experience with practical solutions to assist children with executive functioning difficulties. |
| Excellent | Yes | As I have been in Education for over 35 years and undertaken so many courses/workshops/diplomas and a degree – I have found that this was very simply THE BEST course – EVER. I found the easy explanations, Dean Beadle discussed and explained were illusionary. I also feel so strongly that everyone in the world should undertake this course as we all come across people who need to be understood more, whether its family, relatives, cousins, work colleagues, students that we teach or people we come across in everyday life. Undertaking this course would build a greater understanding and tolerance in our world and I sincerely believe that our global community would be a more peaceful place to reside in. Dean needs to be recommended for a knighthood to King Charles & truly acknowledged for his strength, passion, tolerance and sheer commitment to his unselfish work. Bravo and thank you so much Sue for adding Dean onto your course schedule. Wishing you all the best for 2025 and I will be taking this course with me for many long years. With grace and courtesy, SARAH JANE WATSON |
| Excellent | Yes | That it is so respectful of Neurodivergency and thoughtfully and brilliantly delivered. |
| Excellent | Yes | “If you do not have an understanding of what executive functioning means and how it can impact your students, that’s okay, this course will dissect it with lived experience, explained so clearly with visuals to refer to.” |
| Very Good | Yes | That it is coming from a perspective of lived experience. |
| Very Good | Yes | This should be essential for all teachers and those working with our young people. |
| Excellent | Yes | The courses provide useful and current information, and the presenters are well renowned in the field of neurodivesity. |
| Excellent | Yes | “” weather in a school environment or for self improvement anyone seeking guidance to help along the path to better understanding of our children and their needs , will benefit from this course” |
| Excellent | Yes | A nice quick watch that is packed with practical yet heartfelt information. |
| Very Good | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | That executive functioning can be adapted to suit everyone |
| Very Good | Yes | How executive function can be adapted to suit anyone with the right strategy |
| Excellent | Yes | It is fabulous for parents, educators and just about anyone who is willing to learn and laugh. Always informative and entertaining, lots of fantastic resources. |
| Satisfactory | Yes | it will assist you as educator and parent to understand and guide the autistic child better |
| Satisfactory | Yes | it will assist you to understand your neurodiverse child’s brain and behaviour and give practical skills |
| Excellent | Yes | Great information, fantastic presenter |
| Excellent | Yes | If you want to better understand how and why some children struggle in the classroom/different environments and strategies for the child to witness success. |
| Excellent | Yes | Relatable, Conversational, Achieveable tips and advice. |
| Excellent | Yes | Yes, this is a great course for someone who is looking to learn more about autism and executive functioning, with someone who lives with it on a daily basis, can explain in simple terms, and has research base facts to back up what he is saying. |
| Excellent | Yes | This eLearning series has a relatable speaker who makes sure to connect to his audience, use relevant research, and personal anecdotes to provide key advice and resources. |
| Excellent | Yes | Practical, excellent information from lived experience of an autistic individual, easy to follow, evidence supported |
| Excellent | Yes | Not just very informative, but so practical as well. |
| Very Good | Yes | Very easy to listen to and learn from. Heaps of resources. Fantastic way to gain ASD perspective on classroom experience. |
| Excellent | Yes | Opens your eyes through their eyes |
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| Very Good | Yes | Easy to access (presentation / speaker style; the fact you can drop stop and start easily between sessions; practical, engaging and easy to understand; adds new knowledge but also builds on what you know. |
| Excellent | Yes | The course outlines practical, realistic, easy to implement strategies for the home and school contexts. Speaker is relatable and believable. |
| Excellent | Yes | great to get an understanding of ex. functioning and autistic inertia. |
| Excellent | Yes | If you want to teach effectively, you must embrace learning as the most powerful tool. |
| Excellent | Yes | I am a counsellor who was a teacher for many years. I believe this course would make life so much easier for teachers and their neurodiverse students. |
| Excellent | Yes | Fantastic speaker ! such an amazing insight and advocate. Loved this course and Dean’s humour, made me laugh out loud 🙂 |
| Very Good | Yes | It is always good to hear from people who are ‘living’ the issues that many neuro divergents have |
| Excellent | Yes | Worth it |
| Excellent | Yes | Worth it |
| Excellent | Yes | Do it! All Sue’s seminars and courses are fabulous, really eye opening, I have followed her since 2008/9 when my son was diagnosed with Autism. He is now 19. Sue has been amazing through all that time, and has been there as a support through all of that time. Thanks Sue! |
| Excellent | Yes | Extremely easy to listen too and the printable summary’s will be helfull too |
| Excellent | Yes | Dean is so engaging and easy to listen too. He balances his experience with practical, realistic strategies to assist people. |
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| Excellent | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | Dean Beadle presents in a clear easily understandable way… with some humour thrown in |
| Very Good | Yes | |
| Good | Yes | Great to hear from someone who can describe first hand what it is like and how we can support |
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| Excellent | Yes | |
| Excellent | Yes | Make the time |
| Excellent | Yes | Great course to have a better understanding of executive functioning |
| Very Good | Yes | a fantastic course that gives you tangible and real life examples for implementing the needed steps to assist with EF and autistic inertia for ND students. |
| Very Good | Yes | It is worth doing for insight to ASD |
| Excellent | Yes | Excellent course for understanding executive functioning |
| Excellent | Yes | That is it very illuminating about how life is for people who live with executive functioning issues. it is difficult, exhausting, a little unpredictable, and the environment, both physical and human is not particulary accommodation. you need to listen to Dean B to understand something of the challenges the people face. |
| Excellent | Yes | The greater insight into the difficulties in starting and maintaining task for neurodivergent people is invaluable as are the additional tips in how to make the education setting more accessible |
| Excellent | Yes | There’s lots of practical suggestions, as well as a being valuable in helping me grasp a bit more the perspective of life from the place of someone with autism |
| Excellent | Yes | Very informative, easy to understand. Dean was great to listen to. |
| Excellent | Yes | Very useful and easy to listen to. Great explanations that are relatable . Great practical hints to help in life |
| Excellent | Yes | Fantastic explanation and amazing examples that can be used at home and school. Could listen all day. Would love another course |
| Very Good | Yes | I would say that this course gives you initial understanding of the students we work with and will enable you to plan your programme for the needs of the autistic students rather than the needs of the lesson. |
| Excellent | Yes | An excellent presentation on understanding Executive Functioning and how to make adjustments to the curriculum, classroom environment, classroom pedagogy when interacting with Autistic students. Above all the speaker, in being autistic, provides insights to the daily challenges confronting Autistic students and in so doing provides valuable tips on how to understand and interact effectively with these students. |
| Excellent | Yes | I really appreciated that I could watch a lesson or two then take time to reflect and check my understanding before moving onto the next part. I took about 3 hours to get through the whole course as I could take my time to work through my own questions. Now I am left with a podcast to listen to, resources to refer back to and people to follow in order to keep improving my understanding and behaviours in an effort to make the world more accessible for those around me. |
| Very Good | Yes | Easy to listen to, excellent tips and tools given. |
| Excellent | Yes | It gives you insight into how a person with autism |
| Excellent | Yes | it is insightful and tells neurotypicals what it is really like for people with autism, and it give us useful things we can do to make the environment more appropriate to their strengths and challenges. |
| Excellent | Yes | It just makes you think – helps you to understand what is happening in their world. Love this quote ” The world isn’t set up for their needs so change the environment” I also love the idea that Dean recognises that it is hard for me to understand but it isn’t hard for me to believe. |
| Very Good | Yes | This course is presented by an engaging ND speaker who draws on his own lived experience, struggles, what helped him, and the importance of empowering ND persons and them knowing they are not broken, they are fabulous! |
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| Dean is the most brilliant person i have ever listened to | ||
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