47 min

Rachel Grant-Waters: How growing up with ADHD enabled Rachel to empathise with SEN children Utopia | Qbtech Utopia with ADHD Girls

    • Personal Journals

Rachel Grant-Waters is an openly neurodivergent Teaching Assistant who has worked in SEN education for over 5 years. Diagnosed with Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Dyscalculia as a child, she was diagnosed with ADHD in her 30s. Rachel actively uses her first hand experience as a neurodivergent learner to support the students she works with while advocating for awareness, understanding and better support of neurodevelopmental disorders in mainstream education and the workplace.

About Utopia    

This interview is part of the Utopia campaign, a collaboration between ADHD Girls and Qbtech. By shedding light on the unique lived experiences of neurodivergent individuals, Utopia aims to create a broader, more universal understanding of what it’s like to experience life with ADHD.   

For those living with ADHD, their families, and clinicians alike, this interview offers a wealth of real, relatable stories.   

For more information about the Utopia campaign, please visit https://adhdgirls.co.uk/utopia/

Rachel Grant-Waters is an openly neurodivergent Teaching Assistant who has worked in SEN education for over 5 years. Diagnosed with Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Dyscalculia as a child, she was diagnosed with ADHD in her 30s. Rachel actively uses her first hand experience as a neurodivergent learner to support the students she works with while advocating for awareness, understanding and better support of neurodevelopmental disorders in mainstream education and the workplace.

About Utopia    

This interview is part of the Utopia campaign, a collaboration between ADHD Girls and Qbtech. By shedding light on the unique lived experiences of neurodivergent individuals, Utopia aims to create a broader, more universal understanding of what it’s like to experience life with ADHD.   

For those living with ADHD, their families, and clinicians alike, this interview offers a wealth of real, relatable stories.   

For more information about the Utopia campaign, please visit https://adhdgirls.co.uk/utopia/

47 min