Teens & Neurodiversity: Understanding, supporting & guiding
Let's All Talk Mental Health
54:00
Summer can bring relief from school stress, but for families with one or more neurodivergent teens, it also raises questions around balance, boredom, and burnout.
This session explores how to plan holidays that meet everyone’s needs, and includes rest, connection and routine without overwhelm, and when/how to prepare for the return to school especially if your teen has been out of school or avoids it altogether.
Speaker
Charlotte Armitage
Dr
Dr Charlotte is a psychologist specialising in children, technology, and mental health. She is the founder of Be Device Wise, which supports schools and local authorities to create healthier device-use behaviours. Her book, Generation Zombie: Why Devices are Harming Your Children and What You Can Do About It (Hachette UK, 2025), explores the psychological impact of screens on young people.
Charlotte works widely with schools, parents, councils, and the media, and is a member of the Health Professionals for Safer Screens and the NHS West Yorkshire Trauma Informed Network. She created the national No Phones at Home Day campaign and regularly speaks in the media on child development and device use.
This year, Charlotte is leading large-scale conferences with Leeds and Derbyshire councils, training hundreds of schools in the Device Wise Programme. She also delivered a TEDx Talk at Manchester Bridgewater Hall on “How Devices are Harming Kids and What We Can Do About It.”
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Teens & Neurodiversity: Understanding, supporting & guiding
54:00