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Q&A Live – What is PDA for parents and carers
This Q&A Live recording provides parents and carers with an overview of PDA and helpful approaches.
PDA Society training facilitators who are also parents of PDA young people answer common questions around the topics below, sharing a range of perspectives and lived experience:
What is PDA?
Helpful approaches and changing [...]
PDA & masking with James
In this video 14 year old James kindly shares information about his experience of PDA and masking.
Hi, I'm James and I'm 14 years old. I was diagnosed with PDA at the age of 12 and would like to share some information about masking. A lot of people with PDA [...]
PDA best practice – the PDA community’s voice
PDA best practice - what the PDA community would like professionals to know
This is one of two resources created for PDA Day 2021 that share best practice about PDA for professionals from all sectors – including healthcare, education, social care, the law, therapists, counsellors, advocates and policy makers.
This video [...]
Introduction to PDA (2021)
An introductory video about PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance).
This video is just over 20 minutes long and covers lots of information, including:
What is demand avoidance?
PDA & Autism
Key features of a PDA profile
Research & clinical themes
Why identify PDA?
How PDA can feel
What are demands?
Demand [...]
What is PDA? video
This short video gives a quick introduction to PDA and was created to help raise awareness of PDA with the general public and convey some essential information about PDA in a quick and easily shareable format.
Voiced by PDAers and PDA Society team members.
Available to watch and share below or [...]
NDTi – short introduction to PDA (2019)
NDTi has partnered with the PDA Society to help raise awareness and increase understanding of PDA – a profile on the autism spectrum.
Following the high profile programme File on 4 about Transforming Care, featuring the story of 17 year old Bethany who has PDA traits, it was felt that [...]
Demand Avoidance of the PDA Kind
This video was created to help raise awareness of how the PDA profile of autism can present, combining experiences kindly shared by children, young people and adults.
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Neville’s PDA video series
This ground-breaking range of videos was produced in 2010 by a former Trustee of the PDA Society. They including lots of information on PDA and supporting young people in education. The nine videos cover the following topics:
An introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome
PDA:- Common features and characteristics
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My Experience of Pathological Demand Avoidance
My Experience of PDA by Isaac Russell
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Introduction to PDA – Focusing on the criminal justice system
Introduction to PDA - Focusing on the criminal justice system
This short introductory webinar aims to increase understanding of Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) within forensic clinical practice and settings within the criminal justice system. During this webinar we discuss:
PDA & Autism
Demand avoidance
Research
PDA demands
The effects
Helpful [...]