Overview

Girls Who Mask - A Hidden Crisis: Neuroaffirmative Practices and Suicide Prevention in Autistic Teenage Girls.

Join us in hearing Betty Li, the recipient of the Premier's Anika Foundation Scholarship speak on the results of her five week international study tour exploring neuroaffirmative practices and suicide prevention for high-masking autistic.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this event, participants should be able to:

• recognise high-masking presentations of autism in girls in schools
• understand masking/camouflaging in autistic girls
• have awareness of the role of neuroaffirmative practice in suicide prevention in schools

Presenter(s)

Ms. Betty Li

About the presenter(s)

Betty Li is a registered psychologist and NESA accredited teacher working in the NSW Department of Education. She is the recipient of the 2026 Premier's Anika Foundation Scholarship, which funded a five-week international study tour exploring neuroaffirmative practice and suicide prevention for high-masking autistic girls. Betty has worked across diverse settings in education, community mental health and domestic violence services. She has worked as a high school counsellor in both mainstream and support settings and has spent six years in an all-girls high school. Her practice is neuroaffirmative and trauma-informed, with a particular interest in masking, neurodivergent identity and proactive suicide prevention in schools.

Notes

Target Audience

This activity is aimed at psychologists currently working with teenage girls on the spectrum.

Please note:

• This is a Member Groups event. All communication will be sent to the registrants’ registered email address. This includes event reminders with details (such as the zoom link) and any pre-event or post-event resources, if provided by the facilitators.
• A post-event email will be sent within two weeks of the event’s completion to each registrant’s registered email address. This email will include the CPD certificate, event-recording, and any additional resources shared during the session.

Duration of Access

This event will be recorded. The recording will be emailed to all registered within 2 weeks post event and available for viewing up to 90 days.

CPD

It is up to attendees to assess and determine how learning from this event aligns with the requirements of their learning plan. The providers accordingly do not make any representation that the event counts towards attendees’ CPD learning requirements. If an attendee determines themselves that the learning they complete aligns to their learning plan, then they can decide to count those hours towards their CPD requirements for the registration cycle.

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