Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation
Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation
Many neurodivergent people find broad tasks overwhelming. You might find your child struggles with what feels like an obvious series of steps to produce an outcome. You give a clear instruction, you phrase it in a particular way to prevent a PDA response, there is time to achieve it, you know there isn’t anything they’re not physically or mentally capable of doing, and yet… nope. Clean your room. Get ready for bed. Set the table.[…]
Q. My kid often says they can’t do something I have asked them to do like getting their shoes from the cupboard but I know it’s something they can do. If I ask them why they can’t do it they say they don’t know why. What can I do to make this easier? Mum of autistic daughter aged 5-8 A. This is a really common situation for autistic children, and children with ADHD (and adults!),[…]
Q. My daughter has been diagnosed with ADHD and is on [medication] daily. This has helped with a lot of aspects of her ADHD but she is still very disorganised and untidy. We have tried habit trackers and reward charts and bribery but nothing works. How do I force her to follow some routines? – dad of daughter, aged 8-11 A. Long story short, you don’t force anything. Ever. I think the vast majority of[…]
