Dr Dorothy Armstrong delivers education and training to different organisations and groups.  Here is a sample of the types of public lectures and education delivered in 2024: 

Talk/Training	Titles/Topics	Funder
Course – 5 sessions (3 hours long)	Education programs on Neurodiversity for Professionals	Kildare CYPSC and Sláintecare Healthy Communities Program
Webinar	“Helping teenagers with ADHD who struggle with Organisation, Time-Management, Decision Making, Working Memory and Managing feelings (Executive Function).”	ADHD Ireland
Developmental Coordination Disorder / Dyspraxia: Capturing the complexity’ – Series of six in-person seminars	• DCD – Capturing the complexity (what exactly is it?) and helping children set goals for independence. • Helping children achieve their goals – Part 1. • Helping children achieve their goals – Part 2. • Help for handwriting. • Helping children who need to move from handwriting to assistive technology. • Strategies for young adults and adults and the myth that Developmental Coordination Disorder / Dyspraxia is only there in childhood.	Toys, Technology and Training Programme, Kildare County Council
Dyspraxia Ireland Conference Presentation	‘Reasonable Accommodations to Certificate Exams (RACE)’	Dyspraxia (DCD) Ireland National Conference 2023
‘Fostering Neurodivergent Children’ – Series of Four Webinars	• Understanding Sensory Processing Challenges in your foster child.  • Self-Regulation – Helping the Neurodivergent child to feel grounded. • Managing Meltdowns and Helping Neurodiverse Children and Teenagers understand and manage emotions. • Solving Problems Together and building problem solving skills.	TÚSLA
In-Person Seminar for parent advocacy group – North Dublin	Autism and Girls	Parent Autism Network
Webinar for Professionals working in Kildare Children & Young People’s Services	‘Neurodiversity and Inclusion’	Kildare Children & Young People’s Services Committee
In-Person Talks and a webinar for Early Years Providers and Parents of Preschool Children	• Difficulty processing sensory information during early childhood – Feeling overwhelmed, overloaded and misunderstood. • Children who find it Difficult to concentrate and stay calm – Helping the child who struggles with getting their energy in the right place to participate fully in play and other learning activities.	South Dublin Childcare Committee Similiar program was also funded by Fingal Childcare Committee
Preschool Teacher’s Training in Autism – Series of Three Webinars	• Understanding Autism in relation to the preschool setting – Capturing the Complexity. • Self-Regulation – Supporting the autistic preschool child to manage/understand their own behaviour and reactions (self-regulation). Making changes in the environment to support them to engage with the preschool activities. • Managing and understanding an autism melt-down and using social stories in the preschool setting to help with socialising and learning social skills.	Extern Ireland, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim
In-Service Training Session – Webinar	Self-regulation in the school setting for Neurodivergent students.	Claregalway Educate Together National School, Co. Galway
In-Service Training Session – in person.	Self-regulation in the school setting for Neurodivergent students. Handwriting and Assistive Technology.	Salesians College, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
Series of Four Webinars to parents and teachers	• Helping Neurodiverse Children manage anxiety. • Helping Neurodiverse children who struggle with Organisation, Time Management, Decision Making, working Memory (Executive function). • Helping children and teenagers with ADHD make smart choices and become good problem solvers. • Mindfulness, and relaxation for Neurodiverse Children and Teenagers.	Wexford Education Support Centre
Postgraduate Course in Neurodiversity – Webinar	Occupational Therapy, Sensory Processing and the Neurodiverse Person.	University College Dublin
Series of six in-person seminars	ADD/ADHD – Understanding sensory processing issues and helping children and teenagers to manage them.  ADD/ADHD – Understanding the role of executive functioning (planning, organising, starting tasks and persevering etc.) ADD/ADHD – Changing ‘challenging behaviours’ into problems to be solved.  ADD/ADHD – Capturing the child’s perspective – how to listen and respond so they’ll talk.  ADD/ADHD – Working with the child to devise plans to help them manage when it’s hard to meet adult expectations.  ADD/ADHD – Building problem solving skills and self-esteem.	Toys, Technology and Training Programme, Kildare County Council
Series of Workshops for Dyspraxia/DCD Ireland – Both online and in person	Understanding and supporting your child/teenager with Dyspraxia/DCD. A selection of workshops on relevant topics were run across the year – 36 talks	National Lottery Fund
Two Webinars CPD for those working in primary and secondary schools.	Helping students with Developmental Coordination Disorder (Dyspraxia) meet their potential ADD/ADHD – Help with Self-Regulation	Dublin West Education Centre