Watching your child try something new, take another step toward independence, can feel like holding your breath out of worry while exhaling in relief. Try it right now: inhale and exhale at the same time. Hard to do? That’s what it feels like as a parent, caught between pride, hope, fear, and worry all at…

When fourteen-year-old Lily began lashing out at her best friends and hiding razor blades under her bed, her parents assumed it was just teenage angst. But Lily had ADHD—and she was beginning to show signs of something more serious. Adolescence is a pivotal time of development for girls with ADHD. While many girls with ADHD…

Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you went in, or promised yourself you’d move the laundry to the dryer only to find it still wet the next morning? These moments show prospective memory at work, and for people with ADHD it can be one of the most persistent daily struggles. Often…

In children with ADHD, meltdowns are one of the most difficult to manage, difficult to witness, and misunderstood symptoms. Meltdowns are not a tool for manipulation; they are a total and catastrophic loss of control triggered by the reflexive and innate need for self-preservation. For parents dealing with a child’s meltdown, both the event and…

You swore today was the day: the closet would get cleaned, the inbox tackled, that big project finally started. And yet, somehow, you’re deep into a snack, a scroll, or a sudden urge to alphabetize your spice rack. Procrastination isn’t just a bad habit, it’s a deeply human one. For many neurodivergent individuals, including those…

How This Practice Can Help You Bust Through Procrastination Over the past few years, body doubling has become a popular technique to help folks with ADHD find motivation to initiate tough tasks. If you aren’t familiar, body doubling refers to the practice of having someone be with you as you work. People tend to use…

As a neurodivergent adult, I have often heard my friends and family mention that I missed little “hints” in communication. “We’re out of milk” or “We’ll see” or “It’s chilly in here” are all things people say, but without the direct words, I often miss the inference or meaning behind the hint. AKA, “We’re out…

As technology continues to advance, it is important to understand tools and interventions using artificial intelligence for students with ADHD. This research update describes two recent research papers that review AI-based interventions. The first, an academic paper published in the context of a conference, examined studies of how gamification and personalized learning strategies that are…

Updated contact information and links added 12/16/2025     CHADD of California offers an impressive array of peer-led groups for adults with ADHD and related challenges. Among these is a weekly group dedicated to helping its members to get things done. Drawing upon principles from co-coaching or body double strategies, the Get It Done Together…

Going deeper with executive function tasks that are resistant to intervention Students come to us—parents, teachers, academic coaches, and therapists—with a range of executive functioning (EF) skills which they use to manage their academic day successfully. Whether they experience challenges managing a planner, addressing long-term assignments, social skills, or “just” getting through the day, we…

For a long time, for many of us with ADHD, making friends meant fitting in and blending in.  We worked hard to seem easygoing with friends or to play up our interest in a topic rather than sharing a real topic of enthusiasm. Over time we learned to suppress our preferences and needs, or to…

“We can’t keep accommodating him forever.” “She needs to be ready for the real world.” This sentiment echoes through countless IEP and 504 meetings, parent-teacher conferences, and kitchen table conversations. It reflects a genuine concern: How do we support students with ADHD without creating dependency? How do we prepare them for a world that won’t…