Built by someone living it
InclusiveGrid was born from a very specific frustration — and a very real gap in what existed for families like mine.
I'm Veena — autistic, ADHD, a tech lead, and a mum. I navigate neurodiversity across every part of my life, often on the same day. This site exists because I couldn't find anything that held all of it together.
"I couldn't find one place that understood all of it — the EHCP fight, the masking at work, the career ambition, the exhaustion. So I built it."— Veena, Founder of InclusiveGrid
Why InclusiveGrid exists
A few years ago, I found myself somewhere I hadn't expected to be.
My son needed more support than his setting could give him. I knew it. His nursery knew it. But the system had other ideas.
What followed was one of the hardest periods of my life. I was the main earner for my family. I was working full time. I was masking every day in a professional environment, managing a team, trying to hold everything together. And in every spare moment, I was trying to decode a world of EHCPs, local authority decisions, and legal processes nobody had prepared me for.
Every resource I found was either too legal, too clinical, too generic, or built for someone whose experience was nothing like mine. Very little existed for people holding multiple worlds together at the same time.
There was no single place that understood all of it.
So I went all the way to tribunal.
I built a case so thorough, so clear, that the local authority offered the school place I'd requested before we even sat in front of a judge.
The day I told his nursery teacher, she cried.
My son started his new school. He is settled. He is happy. He walks in every morning. He is seen, protected, and making progress that fills my heart.
That moment — and everything it cost to get there — is why InclusiveGrid exists.
What InclusiveGrid covers
Self
Understanding your own neurodiversity is rarely a clean moment. For many of us it arrives late, quietly, while reading about someone else. It brings relief and grief in equal measure. This is a space that holds both honestly.
Systems
The SEND system in the UK is fragmented, exhausting, and designed in a way that assumes you have time, energy, and expertise you probably don't have. I've navigated it from the inside. I can help you find your way through without having to figure it out alone.
Work
Being neurodiverse in a professional environment is its own daily performance. The divided attention, the masking, the fear of being misunderstood, the social energy it costs just to get through a meeting. There is space here for that too.
If you're a parent who's ever felt lost in a meeting about your child and didn't know what questions to ask — this is for you.
If you're someone who has spent years wondering why everything costs more energy than it seems to for everyone else — this is for you.
If you're a professional trying to lead authentically while managing a brain that works differently — this is for you.
You don't need to fit a single category. You just need to be someone trying to make sense of a world that wasn't quite designed for you.
Not a charity. Not a law firm. Not a generic blog. A real voice, with real experience, offering practical clarity to real people.
The goal was never just a website.
It's to build a space where neurodiversity is understood consistently — not one way at home, another at school, something else at work. Where people feel less alone. Where the system feels navigable. Where lived experience is treated as expertise.
We're just getting started.
Get in touchThe values behind every page
Practical, not theoretical
Every piece of content leaves you with something you can actually do — a letter to write, a question to ask, a step to take.
Lived experience, not studied
This isn't just research from the outside. It's navigation from someone on the same path, a few steps ahead.
Calm, not overwhelming
You're already overwhelmed. Nothing here adds to that. Clear language, clear structure, no jargon.
The whole picture
Home and work aren't separate. Your neurodiversity and your child's aren't separate. InclusiveGrid treats them as one life.