Resources

• Social Thinking

  • Our work supports individuals' social, emotional & academic learning, whether neurotypical or Neurodivergent, with or without diagnoses. Our materials are helpful for students with solid to strong expressive and receptive language skills in mainstream and special education. They can be used across developmental ages to support the development of social competencies, flexible thinking & social problem solving to improve: conversation & social connection, executive functioning, friendship & relationship

• PEERS 

  • The UCLA Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) offers manualized, evidence-based social skills programming for youth and adults who are struggling socially. (The videos are great!)

• Social Communication Benchmarks 

• Anna Vagin  

  • Social Learning resources and teaching materials

• PBIS Social Stories

  • Extensive Library for Social Stories Materials

• Smart but Scattered Kids 

  • work by Dawson and Guare (leaders in the field!)

  • Learn more about your executive functioning strengths and challenges here

• Sarah Ward  (and check her Chrome extensions) 

  • Frameworks and tools to support development of EF skills needed to enjoy learning, reading, writing, and verbal communication through highly individualized programs that are based on the most current research.  To maximize effectiveness and independent carryover of learned skills, we use therapy approaches that develop an individual’s “meta-skills” and “executive function skills”.

• Brain Talk 

  • A curriculum designed to teach students about their brains, and how to use critical thinking to respond mindfully rather than react impulsively.

• Cerebral Matters 

• Harvard Center for the Developing Child 

  • Enhancing and Practicing EF Skills with Children

• Whole Brain Child Workbook 

  • Seigel and Bryan's workbook for parents 

• How to Get UnStuck

• Pause and Plan

• EF in the Classroom

  • Free lessons for social and executuive functioning skills in the classroom!

• Goblin Tools

  • "A collection of small, simple tools, for when things feel too big or complicated"

• ADDitude 

• CHADD 

• ADHD Dude 

• Goddess ADHD 

• Duke ADHD Girls and Women 

• ADHD Driving 

• UVA STAR 

• Autism Society of Central Virginia 

• VIA 

• Autism Level Up 

• VCU Autism Center Parent Playbook 

• Explaining Autism to your child 

• Autism and Communication 

• Sesame Street Autism 

• Duke Autism Caregiver Training 

• ASHA 

• Autistic Self Advocacy Network 

• Embrace Autism

• The Transmitter

• Authentik AI

• Organization for Autism Research 

• Diagnose First 

• Mrs. Speech 

• Autism Complexity 

• PEATC Special Education Resources 

• Lives in the Balance - Collaborative and Proactive Solutions 

• Learn with Dr. Emily 

• The Huberman Lab 

• Jon Haidt

• Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center

• Academic Resources 

• Lived Experience Educator 

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 

• Mothering Support for Neurodivergent Families 

• Social Workers Toolbox 

• PDA:

  • UK PDA Society

  • PDA North America

  • Dr. Naomi Fisher

ADHD / Executive Functions

• Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning by Joyce Locker- Kahn and Laurie Dietzel

• Smart, but Scattered: The Revolutionary Approach to “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare

• The Whole-Brain Child Siegel and Bryson

• Parenting from the Inside Out Siegel and Hartzell

• No Mind Left Behind: Understanding and Fostering Executive Control--The Eight Essential Brain Skills Every Child Needs to Thrive by Adam  J. Cox

• Executive Functioning Workbook for Kids: 40 Fun Activities to Build Memory, Flexible Thinking, and Self-Control Skills at Home, in School, and Beyond by Sharon Grand Ph.D., BCN

• The Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens: Help for Unprepared, Late, and Scattered Teens

• Executive Functioning Workbook for Kids: A Fun Adventure with Bora the Space Cat to Learn How to Plan, Prioritize, and Set Goals in Everyday Life

• Scattered to Focused: Smart Strategies to Improve Your Child's Executive Functioning Skills

• Focus and Thrive: Executive Functioning Strategies for Teens: Tools to Get Organized, Plan Ahead, and Achieve Your Goals

• Your Kid's Gonna Be Okay: Building the Executive Function Skills Your Child Needs in the Age of Attention

• The ADHD Library for Parents 

Anxiety / OCD

• Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD 

• What To Do When You Worry Too Much, Huebner

Other

• Mindset Carol Dweck

• The Highly Sensitive Child Aron

• Raising a Thinking Preteen: The "I Can Problem Solve" Program for 8- to 12- Year-Olds by Myrna B. Shure and Roberta Israeloff

• Lost in School and The Explosive Child by Ross Green.

• It’s A Boy! Dr. Michael Thompson

• Beautiful Oops! Saltzberg

Resource and Programs Lists 

• Neuroimmune Website 

  • Education and resources on PANS, PANDAS, autoimmune encephalitis, neuro­inflamma­tory, and immuno­psychiatric illnesses

• Aspire 

  • We aspire to improve the lives of children and adults affected by PANS/PANDAS and other immune-related encephalopathies by closing the gap between symptom onset and access to treatment and support.

• PANDAS Network

  • A national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and their families with PANDAS.