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 and Breakdown; a holistic approach to developmental breakdowns in infancy.
• Autism As A Fruit Salad; strategies when autism is actually not 'one' thing.
• Autism Friendly; what is it and how to become it
• Clashing 'Normalities'; examining the relativity of 'normality' and adapting to alternative systems
• Constructively Facing Resistance, Change and Disappointment; when hope is positive and when it is damaging and what you can do about it.
• Donna's journey; a personal story of ability in disABILITY
• Information overload and meltdowns; what they are and autism-friendly strategies for their management.
• Just Act 'Normal'; the impact of forced conformity and foreign culture on identification, alienation and chronic stress responses
• Understanding and working with challenging behaviors in people on the autism spectrum
• 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; telling impulse control disorders from obsessive interests.
• When to Help and When to Empower; exploring self-defeating versus constructive forms of assistance.

• Autism: the myths, the diversity and where is the hope?
• Being Autie and Sense of Self; is autism always the sum total of the self, are their times to battle it and times to accept it and does it differ for different people.

• Addressing 'Fleas'; Mood, Anxiety and Compulsive Disorders in those on the Autism Spectrum
• Co-occurring conditions and the roles and limitations of diet and medication
• 'Disordered' Personality and the Role of Environmental Medicine; looking at motivation and distress profiles as a key to refining strategies and approaches
• Exposure Anxiety The Invisible Cage of Involuntary Self Protection Responses; working with compulsive avoidance, diversion and retaliation responses.
• Learned dependency and turning it around; how much of disability is learned dependency and what can reduce that.
• Living constructively with social phobia: an exploration of social alternatives for anxiety challenged people
• Making friends with the body; addressing problems of body disconnectedness and dissociation of body from self
• When Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) overlaps with autism: exploring attachment disorders in the context of autism diagnosis and 'treatment'

• Autism and the Family; exploring environmental approaches and the impact of autism on family structures.
• Autism at Home; strategies for making homes more autism friendly
• Autism Spectrum challenges in mainstream environments; strategies for trouble spots

• Autism at the table; strategies for autistic relationships to food, eating, packaging and associations
• Dietary Wheelchair; addressing the spectrum of gut, immune and metabolic challenges on the spectrum

• Blah Blah Blah; understanding those with auditory and language processing disorders.
• Building, finding and channeling interests and abilities for people with developmental disabilities
• Facilitated Communication; what it is, who's it for, how it works, where it can lead in terms of hope for functionally non-verbal people
• Language of Behaviour; understanding functionally non-verbal autistic expression as a broad communication system.
• The Concept of 'Social'; understanding and working with social interaction challenges in people on the autism spectrum.
• The spectrum of language and communication disorders; exploring the diversity of language challenges across the autism spectrum.
• When Words Get in the Way; communication and social strategies and outlets for functionally non-verbal people.

• Addressing learning styles; exploring the surprising diversity of learning styles on the autism spectrum
• Artism versus Autism; an innovative look at compulsive sensory fascinations
• 'Autistic' Personalities?; exploring the role of personality traits in stereotypes, diagnosis and therapeutic approaches
• 'Cat People' and 'Dog People'; why watching, waiting, wanting, can sabotage some learners
• Compliance and control in the use of life skills; are compliance based programs the healthiest choices and what are the alternatives

• Alternative employment for people with developmental challenges
• Friendships, Relationships and Independent Living for people with developmental disabilities.

• Battling With Books; making literature user friendly for those with visual perceptual, language processing and information processing challenges
• Getting by with 'half a brain': alternatives for perceptually and cognitively challenged people
• Kinesthetic Learners on the autistic spectrum; learning through physical patterning and the role of 'doing'
• Memory, Retrieval, and Consciousness; an exploration of accessing versus triggering in conscious and preconscious learners
• Making storytelling user friendly; literacy strategies for those with visual, auditory and language processing challenges.
• Making transitions more autism friendly: healthy and respectful strategies for short and long term transitions.
• Not Thinking In Pictures; strategies for those with visual perceptual disorders.
• Sensing to interpreting; utilizing sensory mapping, rote learning and literal understanding.
• Sensory, Perceptual and Cognitive differences; implications for learning, communication and independence
• System of Sensing: the Unlost Instinct; exploring the pre-interpretive world of those navigating by pattern, theme and feel.
• The System of Self and Other; how being unable to hold a simultaneous sense of self and other impacts on developmental and behavioral challenges
• Tips for improving information processing for cognitively and perceptually challenged people
• Visual perceptual and visual processing disorders on the autism spectrum.