What OurVerse rests on, and what is not yet known.
From practice
The pedagogy and tools behind the model have been used every week since 2025 in the community learning groups at Neuroverse Community CIC, with written records each week. They rest on 31 years of professional work with children and families, together with lived experience of disability and neurodivergence.
What is not yet known
There is no independent evaluation of this model yet. The founding cohort will gather before and after wellbeing data and progress against young people’s own goals, with an independent university partner to follow. Read about founding members.
From research
The model draws on autistic led and neuro-affirming research.
The research it draws on
Work on school distress and neurodivergence (Connolly, Constable and Mullally, 2023), autism and environment (Beardon, 2020), the double empathy problem (Milton, 2012), monotropism (Murray, Lesser and Lawson, 2005), autistic burnout (Raymaker and others, 2020), masking (Pearson and Rose, 2021), Universal Design for Learning, and self advocacy.
