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The TGD This week, we’re tackling Time Management using sensory signals and songs. Time Management Definition: The capacity to estimate how much time one has and how to stay within time limits. Why it matters: Many neurodivergent brains struggle with "feeling" time. To calibrate that internal clock, we can flip the script and make our vocab more concrete and relatable or use more fun and friendly techniques like music. Try it with us - this week, instead of saying “we’re leav

The TGD Welcome to Week 3 of our Summer Challenge. Our focus this week is on your brain's attention span and its internal mental notepad: Sustained Attention and Working Memory. Keeping focus from evaporating when a task gets boring is incredibly hard work for a neurodivergent brain. If your family struggles with this, the good news is that cognitive endurance is something we can intentionally scaffold and build over time. Here is how our team put these skills into action thi

The TGD Welcome to Week 2 of our Summer Challenge. This week, we're talking about two heavy-hitting executive function skills that dictate how we handle big impulses and intense emotions: Response Inhibition and Emotional Regulation. It is very fair for these to feel like a massive lift for neurodivergent brains, but they are muscles we can absolutely train. Here is how our team put them into action this week. Skill 1: Response Inhibition Definition: The ability to put a buff

The TGD Welcome to Week 1 of our Summer Challenge! Today, we’re tackling our first two executive function pillars: Planning/Prioritizing and Task Initiation. For so many of our clients - adults and kids - the hardest part of a task is often just the friction of getting started. Here is how we’re lowering that barrier this week. Ed worked on Planning and Prioritizing by creating a roadmap and deciding what to tackle first. For neurodivergent brains, "mental simulation"—literal