This library is an evolving collection of resources designed to support parents raising kids with ADHD and dyslexia. We’ll continue adding materials over time, but we encourage you to explore what’s here and discover tools that may be helpful for your family.
Resources
MindPrint Learning is the only K12 solution that uses objective cognitive data to teach students how they learn best and provides strategies personalized to students' learning strengths and needs.
At the core of MindPrint is an hour-long online, self-administered cognitive assessment developed at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. The MindPrint solution is used by hundreds of schools and tutoring organizations worldwide to increase grades, test scores, social and emotional skills, and student engagement.
The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) version 1.1 is a diagnostic tool designed for the assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults. Developed in collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) and researchers at Harvard Medical School, the ASRS v1.1 is grounded in the criteria set forth in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR). The tool consists of 18 items that reflect the DSM-IV-TR criteria for ADHD, divided into two main symptom domains: inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity.
Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have spent more than 40 years helping children who struggle at home and in school due to weak executive skills. To help identify these strengths and challenges, they developed the Executive Skills Questionnaire–Revised (ESQ-R)—a self-report assessment students complete to better understand their executive functioning, based on the framework outlined in their books.
Self-Reporting Assessments
Parent Resources
When you’re overwhelmed by intense emotions, DBT TIPP skills can help shift the body into a more relaxed state. Use one or more of these strategies to regain stability in moments of turmoil.
The premise of The 5 Love Languages® book is quite simple: different people with different personalities give and receive love in different ways. By learning to recognize these preferences in yourself and in your loved ones, you can learn to identify the root of your conflicts, connect more profoundly, and truly begin to grow closer.
VARK is a learning styles questionnaire that helps you learn better by suggesting the study strategies that are best for you.
FORGET "TRY HARDER." WHEN YOUR BRAIN WORKS DIFFERENTLY, YOU NEED TO TRY DIFFERENT.
In this honest, friendly, and shame-free guide, the creator of the award-winning YouTube channel How to ADHD shares the hard-won insights and practical strategies that have helped her survive, even thrive, in a world not built for her brain.
Mental Health Expert & Parent Coach Robyn Gobbel is here to reveal how all behavior, no matter how baffling, can be explained and remedied. You just need to look past the behavior and understand what’s going on inside.
Robyn decodes the latest brain science into easy-to-understand principles and metaphors which will help you to become an expert in your child’s behaviour. She reveals simple ways to help you regulate and connect with your child, with brain-, body- and sensory-based strategies to overcome day-to-day challenges.
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