Deflect+Protect
Keeping the neurodivergent community safe online
What We DoWorkshops and consultancy
Deflect + Protect are an autistic founded and run non-profit. We deliver engaging informative training sessions focusing on digital harms and online safety. Our suite of workshops includes sessions focusing on online safety, online gambling harms and media/digital literacy for young people. We explain how the internet affects our young people, especially young neurodivergent people.
We also specialise in consultancy focusing on digital harms, helping to develop and implement strategies to keep our young people safe online, focusing on safeguarding policies and directives, protecting young people from digital harms.
Our Workshops
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Media/Digital literacy
Working with young or vulnerable groups of people explaining the content they consume, the subtext, parasocial relationships and working to discern what is nefarious.
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Digital Gambling Harms
These sessions are focused on the modern online gambling space, including unregulated crypto currency casinos, neurodivergent peoples propensities towards gambling addiction and the intersection between young people - video games and gambling.
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Digital Harms
These sessions focus on a broader look at digital harms, from hateful content, grooming online, neurodivergent young people and the risks associated with the internet.
Who do we work with
Our clients are education settings ranging from SEND Specialist provisions, Alternate provisions, higher education settings, Universities and multi academy trusts.
Cyber Safety for everyone
By working in collaboration with Deflect+Protect you can build a safer future online for our young people.
Championing Safe Online Spaces for Neurodivergent Youth
As members of the neurodivergent community we believe it is our mission to elucidate the lived experiences of young people and help protect them online. Creating truly safe spaces for those most vulnerable, working with our community to empower us to use the internet as a safe tool for good.