This session is for Dental Office Staff to learn practical and useful strategies to support autistic and neurodivergent patients of all ages in the dental setting. In fact, many of the strategies presented will help ALL patients have more successful dental visits.

Kayla has partnered with CIRCA to develop the program “Autism and Neurodiversity in Dentistry.” She is a Dental Hygiene graduate from the University of Manitoba. Currently, she works in private practice, is a part-time instructor in the Faculty of Dentistry at UBC, is a provincial examiner with the CDHBC, and is the Hygienist for BC Children’s Hospital. At BCCH, she developed the successful Behavioural Dental Intervention Program to assist children with support needs to successfully receive basic dental treatment without using a general anesthetic. She has been recognized for her work and has received the Dental Hygiene Superhero Award from Johnson and Johnson and the Dental Hygiene Making a Difference Award from the BCDHA.