Free Webinar | Navigating Healthcare Systems
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Healthcare should be safe, respectful, and accessible for everyone. Yet for many families supporting autistic people, even routine appointments can become stressful, overwhelming, and exhausting.
From dental visits and blood tests to GP referrals and specialist care, the healthcare system can feel fragmented and unpredictable. Providers may lack autism-specific awareness, communication needs go unmet, and families are often left unsure how to request the adjustments that could make all the difference.
This month's webinar is here to help. Join host Kathrine Peereboom and award-winning GP Dr James Best for a practical, empowering conversation on how to navigate healthcare confidently with real strategies you can use straight away.
You'll gain insights into:
- Why healthcare can be harder than it should be for autistic people
- How to prepare for medical appointments
- How to work together with your GP
- Red flags and common misunderstandings
- Practical strategies for making high-stress settings like hospitals and dental visits safer and more manageable.
Whether you're new to navigating healthcare or have been at it for years, this webinar is for you.
Webinar Details
- When: Tuesday, 31 March 2026 | 11:00 AM AEDT
- Where: Zoom
- Cost: FREE
- Q&A: Yes — live session included, so have your questions ready!
- Recording: Available to all registered attendees
Can't join live? Register anyway, and you'll get the recording.
Meet Our Speakers
Kathrine Peereboom, Host
Kathrine Peereboom is a mother to three profoundly autistic sons and a national disability advocate with more than a decade of experience training frontline police officers across Australia to better understand and support the disability community. She is the driving force behind iSafe Connect, a groundbreaking initiative bridging communication between people with disabilities and emergency services, and runs a disability-inclusive dance school providing creative opportunities for people of all abilities. With lived experience and professional expertise, Kathrine is a compassionate and powerful voice in conversations around profound autism.
Dr James Best, Speaker
Dr James Best is an award-winning GP with more than 25 years' experience specialising in child development, behaviour, parenting, and disability. His journey into autism advocacy began personally when his youngest son, Sam, was diagnosed in 2004. In 2017, James published Sam's Best Shot — the story of a six-month journey through Africa with Sam to build life skills — a story also featured on ABC's Australian Story. He is Chair of the RACGP Child and Young Person's Health Specific Interests network and is widely published on child health. James now practises on the NSW south coast, combining professional expertise with lived experience to improve outcomes for children and families.
Proudly Supported By:
Autism Aspergers Advocacy Australia (A4) — a national, volunteer-led organisation representing autistic people, their families, carers and associates.