Executive Functioning
Auditory Processing
Speechify Text to Speech - Upload any PDF into the Speechify web app and have Speechify read it out loud to you, summarize it, or create a podcast.
Natural Reader - Transforms text into natural-sounding audio.
Audible - Audio books can be a more accessible way to absorb information.
Learning Ally - Human-narrated audiobooks for dyslexia, language-based learning differences, blindness, and low vision.
Scanmarker Pen - Scan books and documents and transform to audio.
Task Paralysis
Forest Focus App- Forest is a pomodoro-style focus timer where every minute of concentration grows a tree.
Pomodoro Technique - Structured series of short periods of focus that builds in time for your brain to take a break.
Body Doubling - Explains how body doubling helps with productivity and motivation specifically for ADHD.
Habit Stacking - Take a solid habit and stack a new habit on it. For example, when brushing your teeth in the morning, keep your medication bottle by the toothbrush so that you can stack the habit of consistent medication onto a solid habit.
Goblin Tools - AI program specifically broken down into sections: Breaking large tasks into small steps, estimates time required for tasks, recipe finder based on what you have in your home, helps initiate tasks.
Transitions & Change
iCreate Social Skills Stories - Create social stories for transitions or new experiences with personal photos to make it customized.
Transitional Items - Allow your child to have a transition item such as a stuffed animal, fidget, snack, to bridge between one activity to the next with a desirable next activity.
Visual Timers - Helps children grasp the concept of time and can be easier to process visually.
First Then Visual Schedule- First-Then visual schedule with audio-visual representations of customized routines, activities, sequences, and transitions.
Choice Works - Create custom visual schedules for transitioning children through multi-step tasks and routines, like getting ready in the morning, or calming down.
How to Help with Transitions for Kids - List of transition supports for children.
Working Memory & Organization
Chunking - Chunking helps the brain hold more information in working memory by grouping pieces of information. That way, there are fewer items to store.
Tile - Similar to AirTags, an affordable way to tag items such as keys, purse, electronics, and ping their location any time.
Take pictures for visual memory - Use your phone to take pictures of where you parked, paperwork you need later, the thing you need to buy, and save to an album on your phone like an infodump space.
Give important things a visible home base — Keys, wallet, backpack, medication, paperwork and other frequently lost items benefit from consistent landing zones or home bases.
Color Coding/Traffic Light System - Can be used to indicate the importance or significance of tasks (and therefore help to prioritize tasks and work through them in a logical sequence). It supports looking at how many red (high energy, dificult), yellow (manageable but still productivity based, and green (restorative tasks that fill up your cup).
Time Blindness
I Can’t Wake Up! - Alarm that requires you to complete a puzzle or math problem to shut off the alarm.
Plant Nanny - Water tracking app that reminds you throughout the day to promote hydration.
Tiimo - App that provides visual timers/countdowns, widgets for the phone to easily reference routines and habits, to support planning and time management.
Practice setting timers for tasks - Helps gain a sense of how long a task takes.
Emotional Regulation
iCreate Social Skills Stories - Create social stories for transitions or new experiences with personal photos to make it customized.
Learn About Interoception - Through mindfulness and being present with the body’s internal cues such as hunger, thirst, exhaustion, you can address the basic biological needs that lead to dysregulation or meltdowns.
First Then Visual Schedule- First-Then visual schedule for your family with audio-visual representations of routines, activities, sequences, and transitions.
Choice Works- App to create custom visual schedules for transitioning students and children through multi-step tasks and routines, like getting ready in the morning, or calming down.
Worry Dolls- Tell your worry to a worry doll and track the worry overtime. Teaching how worry changes in amount, size, and form and can be changed.