Genral Recomendations for Nerodivergent Individules

1) Set up all your devices with a screen reader and speech to text (links to instructional videos on istalation on diffrent devises are listed below!)

2) Come to teachers as early and prepared as possible! Teachers don’t know what you need, so it's important you come prepared with what you need and the earlier you start that conversation the likelier you are to receive the accommodations by the time you need them. If these conversations feel dificult check out our Learning Self Advocacy videos!

Genral Recomendations for People with Dyslexia

1) Taking notes with Dyslexia can be very challenging, and often people with dyslexia are forced to choose between writing down as much as they can as fast as they can or actually paying attention and barely write anything at all. Below are two great note taking alternitives that will allow people with dyslexia to focus and have quality notes.

2) Proof reading is another tricky stiuation for people with dyslexia. Sometimes our brains will type out the wrong word and not even notice because it's to close to the word we were actually trying to spell. Not to mention sometimes when you are voice typing it will write down the wrong word as well. To combate the many challenges with proof reading we suggest using a screen reader.

3) If you have dyslexia I cannot recomend reading with eyes and ears enugh! This consept is mentioned on our Audio Options page because of how use full it is, so you should definitly check it out! 

Genral Recomendations for People with Dysgraphia

1) If you have Dysgraphia and holding a writing utensil hurts your has the two three stratigies I would suggest are: try changing the way you hold it to a way that has (through word of mouth) been recomended for people with dysgraphia, test out adding difrent pencil grips to your pencil, and try strangthening the fine motor mucles in your had. A breack down of each of there stratigies is below.

2) Annotating can be very dificult for people with dysgrapha beecause one must write very small in the marjins of the book and the time consuming nature of writing that small so often really takes one out of the story. Below is an alternitive annotation method that allows Dysgraphic indeviduls to interact with the text in a more effective mannor.

Genral Recomendations for People with ADHD

1) Remembering to do things with ADHD can be a real struggle! And the majority of methods to set reminders can often be inacsesable. Instead learn below how to make your phone your working memory with nothing but your voice.

2) Keeping track of Assignments and genrally to do's can be a nightmare with ADHD. The best stratige I have found (and heard recomended) is check lists. Check lists are great because they keep everything in one place and give you a little dopemine hit every time you check something off. The only difficulty becomes: do you want you list on paper or digitally. Below you find a break down of the best way to set up your list in either formate.