Where understanding becomes meaningful inclusion.
NISS is a South African impact-driven neuroinclusion organisation helping workplaces and educational institutions understand barriers, build capacity and implement practical solutions.
Neurodivergent Inclusion & Support Solutions
Built to close the gap between awareness and action.
NISS was established in response to a simple but persistent challenge: many organisations understand the importance of neuroinclusion, but struggle to translate that understanding into practical change.
As a South African impact-driven neuroinclusion organisation, we work with workplaces and educational institutions to identify barriers, strengthen internal capability and implement solutions that enable neurodivergent people to participate, perform and thrive.
Our work brings together lived experience, professional expertise and evidence-based thinking. This allows us to approach inclusion as more than an awareness initiative—it becomes part of how environments, systems, policies and everyday practices are designed.
A clear vision for a more
neuroinclusive
South Africa.
NISS exists to help turn understanding into practical systems, meaningful support and environments where neurodivergent people can contribute with confidence.
To set the benchmark for meaningful neuroinclusion.
To become South Africa’s leading authority on neurodiversity knowledge, policy development and practical implementation—and a trusted benchmark for inclusion across corporate and educational environments.
To transform knowledge into practical support and change.
We equip leaders, employees, educators and institutions with the understanding, strategies, policies, technology and support needed to create environments in which neurodivergent people can thrive.
How we create meaningful impact.
Educate
Build meaningful awareness, knowledge and understanding of neurodiversity and lived experience.
Accommodate
Design and implement accessible systems, policies, practices and working environments.
Empower
Enable greater confidence, participation, productivity and meaningful contribution.
Meet the people guiding our work.
NISS brings together strategic leadership, operational capability, specialist knowledge and technology expertise to advance practical, evidence-informed neuroinclusion.
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Alexia De Sá
Alexia leads NISS’s strategic direction and its work to advance meaningful neuroinclusion across workplaces and educational institutions. Her focus is on helping organisations move beyond awareness towards practical, sustainable and measurable change.
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Tshepo Hlongwane
Tshepo oversees the operational delivery of NISS programmes and solutions. He helps translate strategy into coordinated action, ensuring that consulting, training and support initiatives respond to the practical needs of organisations and their people.
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Sandra Stark
Sandra brings specialist insight into dyslexia, specific learning disorders and the barriers neurodivergent people may experience in learning and professional environments. She guides the clinical, research and programme-development foundations of NISS’s work.
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Olivier Tshimbidi
Olivier leads NISS’s technology and information strategy, with a focus on using accessible digital systems and assistive technology to remove barriers. His work supports practical, technology-enabled solutions for people and institutions.
Ready to move from awareness to action?
Whether you represent a business, school, TVET college, university, education district, provincial department or another organisation, NISS can help you identify barriers and develop a practical pathway towards greater neuroinclusion.
Your environment, priorities and people.
The barriers affecting participation and performance.
Solutions that are practical, sustainable and measurable.