Executive Functioning Strategies for ADHD & Neurodivergent Kids

Time blindness, working memory, getting started: practical strategies to support executive function in children with ADHD, autism, and other neurodivergent profiles.

Organisation Skills: Your child loses belongings, forgets equipment, and can't keep track of things
Planning and Prioritisation: Your child can't work out what to do first or how to plan a task
Impulse Control Strategies: Your child acts before thinking: blurts out, grabs, runs off, or interrupts constantly
Following Multi-Step Directions: Your child only does the first step of a multi-step instruction and forgets the rest
Teaching Flexible Thinking: Your child insists on things being done a certain way and melts down when plans change
Attention and Focus Strategies: Your child can't concentrate, is constantly distracted, and flits between activities
Working With Hyperfocus: Your child becomes so absorbed in one activity they can't transition away from it
Email & Admin Processing Blocks: For when emails, bills, forms, and life admin pile up into an overwhelming backlog because none of them feel urgent enough to start
ADHD-Friendly Money Management: For when impulsive spending, forgotten bills, and financial chaos
Workplace Self-Advocacy: You're struggling at work because of your neurodivergence but don't know how to ask for adjustments
Hyperfocus Exit Ramps: You disappear into a task for hours then surface depleted, sore, behind on everything else, and unable to think straight
Default Mode: Pre-Decide the Small Stuff: For when by midday your brain is fried from a hundred tiny choices: what to wear, what to eat, what order to do things, and the actual work hasn't started
Adulting Admin Without Dread: For when appointments, forms, taxes, renewals, and 'official' tasks pile up until something becomes urgent or late