Resources for Understanding Neuorodiversity

Websites

Understood for Educators: Provides practical, teacher-focused strategies for supporting students with ADHD and learning disabilities in the classroom. It includes lesson ideas, accommodations, and guidance on topics like executive functioning, behavior, and differentiated instruction.

CHADD (National Resource Center for ADHD): Provides evidence-based information and classroom strategies for educators working with students who have ADHD. Its resources are grounded in research and include practical tools for recognizing symptoms and implementing effective supports.

Child Mind Institute: Offers in-depth explanations of how ADHD affects student behavior, learning, and emotional regulation in the classroom. It helps teachers understand the underlying causes of challenges and provides strategies that address those root issues.

ADD-Vantage ADHD Teacher Resources: Delivers accessible, teacher-friendly resources focused on understanding and supporting students with ADHD. It includes short videos and practical strategies designed for quick implementation in real classroom environments.

CDC ADHD Classroom Strategies: The CDC provides research-based information on ADHD, along with recommended classroom interventions and supports. Its resources emphasize evidence-based practices such as behavioral management, organizational skills training, and academic accommodations.

Understood: Free articles, videos, and classroom strategies for ADHD and learning differences, including lesson ideas, accommodations, and teacher guides.

NeurodivergentPeople.org: This site offers free, neurodiversity-affirming tools and resources to help educators support neurodivergent students in inclusive ways.

Teachers Pay Teachers

ADHD Accommodations: From Understanding to Implementation (Bundle): ADHD Accommodations: From Understanding to Implementation combines a clear, research-aligned framework for designing accommodations from an understanding of ADHD and practical, teacher-friendly visuals that support implementation in real classrooms

Understanding My ADHD Brain: Help your students understand their ADHD in a clear, empowering way with this one-page illustrated handout designed for counselors, therapists, and school mental health professionals. Perfect for individual or group sessions, this resource explains how ADHD affects focus, emotion regulation, and impulse control, all in relatable language and simple visuals.

ADHD Tools for Teachers and Parents: Brief handouts to help teachers manage the challenges faced by kids with ADD and ADHD. Teachers can use these tools to educate parents in effective ways to help their child with ADD/ADHD and to support the gains made in the classroom.

Resolving Task Paralysis -- How to Get Students to Get Started: This resource is a printable tool that helps students overcome “task paralysis” by providing simple, practical steps to get started on assignments. It focuses on building executive functioning skills and supporting students, especially those with ADHD, who feel stuck or overwhelmed when beginning tasks.