Parent Tools
Empowering your child by helping them understand their amazing brain!
Empowering Your Neurodivergent Child
Empowering Your ADHD Child
Empowering Your Dyslexic Child
Empowering Your Autistic Child
What’s Next? A Guide for Parents
1. Understanding Your Child’s Report
Your child’s report contains an incredible amount of helpful information – but how do you “translate” all that rich data into actionable next steps? Click here to find out!
2. Explaining a Diagnosis to Your Child
A step-by-step guide for explaining testing results and a diagnosis to your child.
3. Getting Support at School
Helping you navigate school meetings and advocate for your child in collaboration with – not in conflict with – the school team.
4. Additional Resources
This “living” spreadsheet includes the most highly recommended books, parenting classes, workshops, podcasts, and other resources for parents just beginning their journey.
Workshops & Podcasts
Big Brains Raising Little Brains
May 2023
Many neurodivergent kids have neurodivergent parents. Sometimes this helps us understand our children better – sometimes it means our neurodivergence clashes! Listen in on what you can do to support your little one’s brain while taking care of your own.
Explaining ADHD To Your Child
Step-by-step guidance for parents on how to talk to your child about their ADHD diagnosis in an empowering and neurodiversity-affirming way!
Recorded August 2022
Explaining Learning Disabilities to Your Child on Thrive Hive
Join me on “Thrive Hive TV,” an online library of 200+ videos to help kids thrive! This platform offers strength-based approaches to support kids’ learning, executive functioning, social-emotional, and behavioral needs. Watch my series and others for FREE for 30 days
Talking to Your Child About Assessment
October 2022
We often think about how to relay testing results to professionals and educators, but what about the kids themselves?
Helping Children Understand Learning Differences
April 2023
A conversation with Lindamood Bell about helping kids understand their differences, the effect of the pandemic, and getting curious about a child’s lived experience.
Talking to Kids about Neurodiversity
March 2022
“What do I say to my child?”
Reducing Stigma for Kids with ADHD
March 2023
How to talk to your child about ADHD in a way that reduces stigma and empowers them to own their unique brain!
Talking to Kids about their Diagnosis
August 2022
A conversation with Educational Therapists Rachel Kapp and Stephanie Pitts about empowering students with the language to understand their diagnosis and advocate for what they need.
Handouts & Resources
Child-Friendly Assessment Summary
A tool for organizing assessment results in child-friendly language. Use this tool on your own, or with the support of your child’s practitioner to plan the conversation with your child.
Videos & Visuals for Explaining Differences
A spreadsheet with videos, images, and child-friendly explanations for common diagnoses and neurodivergence. Check back often for updates!
Explaining Neurodivergence - Conversation Script
This handout will walk you through, step-by-step, how to talk to your child about their diagnosis using empowering and positive langauge.
How to Prepare Your Child for Testing
A handout for parents with language for talking to your child before their assessment.
Now in English and Spanish.
What's Next? Spreadsheet
This spreadsheet is constantly updated with resources to help parents following their child’s evaluation.
Child Feedback Language Guide
Suggested language for explaining common developmental diagnoses to kids.