Under the Sisterhood

From Awareness to Acceptance: Dr. Anila Khan on Building a Neuroinclusive World.

Elizabeth Elfenbein Season 4 Episode 34

Today we’re getting under the hood with Dr. Anila Khan a daughter, sister, friend, women’s advocate and a Clinical Psychologist, Speech and Language Therapist, Psychotherapist, Trainer and a keynote speaker.

Anila is the global international director for Sounds of Autism Inc , in Arizona and a trauma informed therapist at CIC wellbeing network in the UK. She’s also a UN women consultant for psycho-education on gender based violence, trauma and abuse, migration and for Afghan refugees.

GLOSIN - GLOBAL SEN and inclusion network As GLOSIN professionals hub , Interested in global perspective of Autistic/ADHD ( Neurodivergent) black, brown, white and racial community world wide.

Autism Consultant at Smart Forum for developing AI app for Autism 

Anila is a board member at Getting Sorted : Empowering the world of Neurodiversity. She’s a rehabilitation and drug prevention consultant at the KKAWF, Karim Khan Afridi Welfare Foundation. She’s the Co-founder ' Recovering from Childhood Abuse and Trauma” and “Neurodivergent Adults Pakistan" 

Anila is highly recognized with multiple awards for her work in advocacy. 

  • Autism Hero Award nominee 2023
  • International Inspiration Women Award 2023
  • Mental Health America Conference Award 2023 
  • National Diversity Awards, Positive Role Model 2023
  • Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy and support 2024 & 2025
  • National Diversity Award 2024
  • National Diversity Award 2025 
  • 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙧𝙞 𝘿𝙖 𝙋𝙖𝙠𝙝𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙠𝙝𝙬𝙖 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 ( the pakhtunkhwa star ) 2025 
  • Outstanding Diversity Network Award by Inclusive Award - 2025 

And she is listed as “One of the Top 9 professionals around the world" for uncovering Autism and changing ways towards the Neurodivergent population. (Autism and ADHD) 

Lastly Anila is the only professional globally to work on intersectionality in Neurodivergent and Mental health communities.



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