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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

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How long you have · Twenty minutes
A minute 1Five minutes 3Twenty minutes 4Longer 2
Who it is written for
A practitioner 4Me 2Someone I care about 1
Where you are right now
Coping, mostly 3Getting ready for something 1
On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else
Both of us together 9Involves someone else 4On my own 4
Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed
Systems for daily life 9Screens and attention 9The cost of avoiding 9Medication and how it works 8Treatment and medication 8Moving your body 7Shared spiritual life 6Feelings and focus 6What ADHD actually is 5Staying regulated in conflict 5Rituals of connection 4Getting assessed and diagnosed 4Breaking the worry loop 4Growing empathy 4Exercise, food and other supports 4Knowing your partner 3Repair after rupture 3Get started 3What worry does 3Rebuilding trust 3Answering bids 2Breathing 2Facing it a step at a time 2Reading, numbers and learning differences 2Shame and stigma 2Your nervous system 1What anger actually is 1The moment before you snap 1Structure and routine 1Your sense of time 1Righteous anger and perfectionism 1Posture and how you carry yourself 1Food, caffeine and fuel 1When you use something to cope 1
Approach
Core 2ADHD skills 2
When
Any ordinary day 2In a change 1Under stress 1

Attention and impulse problems that appear for the first time in middle age or later are not ADHD arriving late. They need a doctor to look, not a prescription.

Several conditions affecting the frontal lobes can show up first as new disinhibition, poor judgement or a change in personality, and some are…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 21:7

Ask whether anyone kept the old school reports. The same lines turn up generation after generation: not working to potential, talks too much, never has the right books with him.

They were written by teachers who had never heard of ADHD, about children nobody was going to assess, and that is exactly what makes them worth…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 96:5

For the child who flies off the handle at noise, labels and crowded rooms, with no autism diagnosis in the picture, a free parent completed sensitivity questionnaire will tell you more than another behaviour chart.

It gives you a structured way to describe the reactivity without reaching for a diagnosis the child may not have, and it points at what to change:…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedCoreQur’an 4:28

Before intensive work ends, turn what you have learned about a child's thinking into things a teacher can actually do on a Tuesday morning. That translation is what decides whether any of the gains survive going back to school.

A profile written for clinicians is no use in a classroom of thirty. Give three or four concrete actions instead: where this child sits, how…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedCoreQur’an 3:159

Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.