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Professional Training for NDIS Providers

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Certified Mentor & Instructor

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Autism Peer Mentoring

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Customised Business Training Modules

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Haydn Payne on a Mission

Although awareness of the autism spectrum and disability has advanced rapidly, the development of training, assessments and treatments is limited. Many organisations provide cookie-cutter solutions and approaches for the unbelievably diverse community known as ‘disability’, and many further provide these solutions without regard to the unique aspects of most businesses.

Therefore, my mission is to transform this neglect. As a qualified TAE, I will design customised training modules for SMEs who wish to transform their businesses to become disability-friendly. For individuals, I wish to stand as a relatable peer-mentor for those with disability who come under my care, designing programs for you, as one of you.

How I Work

Haydn uses a strengths-based approach to empower those with neurodiverse conditions and autism spectrum disorders, to engage in community, employment, education, and daily life. Haydn is a certified trainer and assessor, dual diagnosis professional and youth worker with 33 years of lived experience of autism spectrum disorders. Haydn’s peer mentoring programs are designed and delivered with a person-centred approach to build functional resilience, independence and personal agency assisting those on the spectrum to identify, adapt and overcome their personal barriers.

Haydn is uniquely positioned to work with businesses that seek to hire or support employees living with autism spectrum disorders, neurodiverse conditions, and co-morbid disabilities, and provide training and connection to disability employment services, employers, and RTO’s

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Strengths-Focused

It is through personal experience that I know that every single one of us has strengths that will allow us to flourish. This is why mentoring is focused on practical and functional strengths-building methods.

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Flexible Learning Options

Every single person has different needs. To recognise this fact is especially crucial for those on the spectrum, neurodiverse or have disability. This is why learning options are kept flexible for the sake of comfort and best education.

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Customised Training and Mentoring Modules

Get a certified TAE to assess your business on-site and create customised training modules specifically catered to your employees, culture and business needs to welcome someone with disability into your workforce.

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Empowerment, Awareness, Advocate

Disability doesn't mean inability - and through conducting business and mentoring, I wish to stand as a testament and role model to advocate for that fact. Being different sometimes means we need different supports to succeed.

Testimonials

I learned a plethora of life lessons that I will adapt to my life as I grow
While being part of Spectrumite I learned a plethora of life lessons that I will adapt to my life as I grow thanks from the experiences I had attending the weekly sessions and as well made new friends as well.
Matthew Ryan
Above all, it gave me hope that things can change for the better.
As a parent of a child being part of Spectrumite, I found a place to meet parents going through similar scenarios. A place to be able to chat without being judged, with people who understand. And to get information from other's experiences and ideas to try. An understanding that there are many people out there going through the same thing. I was fortunate to make new friends and above all, it gave me hope that things can change for the better.
Helen Sutherland
Spectrumite helped me to be a bit more confident
Spectrumite helped me to be a bit more confident with going out and try to be more communicative with people, also gave me a set of new tools to help me in the real world too.
Conor Kelt
There really is no one else in the industry with as much experience, dedication and care as Haydn!
Under the Spectrumite program, perhaps the best thing I got out was resilience. Now although that may sound odd, the things I learnt under Haydn gave me the basis on how to stand up for myself and to not let other people hurt me. In more depth, I might say that he gave me the tools to empower myself, despite my disability and to persevere regardless of what others say and think of me. After completing his program I soon found myself in a job that I love working with people who genuinely care about me and my well-being. It was the skills Haydn passed on to me that helped me find my passion and to go find the perfect job for me. More than Two Years later, I still find myself looking back on his teachings when I find myself in strife. I would recommend anyone who is considering getting help for themselves or their child to look to Spectrumite for the help they need, as there really is no one else in the industry with as much experience, dedication and care as Haydn.
Bailey Morris