I have been an international public speaker since 1994. I have given lectures, workshops, question answer forums and motivational speeches in countries all around the world, appearing before both small intimate gatherings up to audiences of thousands of people.

My testimonials convey me as an informative, moving, entertaining, inspirational and seasoned public speaker and I have given lectures, workshops, forums and speeches in vastly different fields.

You can see a range of topics I currently speak on below, but you are free to suggest others.

• Autism As A Fruit Salad; strategies when autism is actually not 'one' thing.
• Autism: the myths, the diversity and where is the hope?
• Clashing 'Normalities'.
• Condition versus Self.
• Constructively facing resistance, change and disappointment.
• Creating and finding alternative employment.
• Diversity Friendly; what is it and how to become it.
• Friendships, relationships and independent living.
• Healthy and respectful strategies for short and long term transitions.
• Just Act 'Normal'; respectful alternatives to forced conformity.
• Low and no cost strategies and approaches.
• Mainstream environments; strategies for trouble spots
• Managing meltdowns.
• Making homes more diversity friendly.
• Puberty on the spectrum.
• Relationships to food, eating, packaging and associations.
• Tips for improving information processing
• What the classroom can't teach you (and which other places can).
• When to channel it, when to divert it and when to remove it.
• When to help and when to empower.
• Working with challenging behaviors.

• Addressing 'Fleas'; Mood, Anxiety and Compulsive Disorders.
• Dietary Wheelchair; the spectrum of gut, immune and metabolic challenges.
• Exposure Anxiety; working with compulsive avoidance, diversion and retaliation responses.
• Learned dependency and turning it around.
• Living with mood, anxiety and compulsive disorders.
• Living constructively with social phobia.
• Making friends with the body.
• Working with attachment disorders.

• Blah Blah Blah; understanding auditory and language processing disorders.
• Facilitated Communication; what it is, who's it for, how it works.
• Language of Behaviour; understanding non-verbal autistic expression.
• The Concept of 'Social'; working with social interaction challenges.
• The spectrum of language and communication disorders.
• When Words Get in the Way; communicating and socialising with non-verbal people.

• Battling learned helplessness and prompt dependency.
• Battling with books; strategies for reading, retention and comprehension challenges.
• 'Cat People' and 'Dog People'; why watching, waiting, wanting, can sabotage some learners.
• Kinesthetic Learners; learning through physical patterning and the role of 'doing'.
• From Autism to Artism.
• Making use of diverse learning styles.
• Making use of sensory fascinations.
• Making use of personality traits to achieve potential.
• Meaning deafness, meaning blindness and body disconnectedness.
• Memory, Retrieval, and Consciousness.
• Not Thinking In Pictures; strategies for visual perceptual disorders.
• Perceptual disorders versus learning disability
• System of Self and Other; when you can't hold a simultaneous sense of self and other.
• System of Sensing: the Unlost Instinct; the world pattern, theme and feel.

• Donna's journey; a personal story of ability in disABILITY.
• From Autism to Artism.
• What the classroom can't teach you (and which other places can).
• I'd like to thank my immune deficiency.
• Lessons from the street.
• A Taoist's journey.