The Support App for Parents of Children with ADHD or Autism
Thriive helps children grow up feeling understood, not broken.
Everyday support for families navigating ADHD, autism, and other neurodivergent profiles. Track the patterns, find strategies that actually fit, and feel one step ahead on the hard days.
What changes for parents of neurodivergent children
Without Thriive
- Growing up believing they're broken
- Falling behind and never understanding why
- Slipping through the cracks of a system not built for them
- Families feeling helpless watching it happen
With Thriive
- A child who understands how their brain works
- Parents who can advocate with confidence
- Strategies that actually fit, not generic advice
- A family that feels like a team
How Thriive supports parents of children with ADHD and autism
- Pattern Tracker: Log a tough moment in 30 seconds. Thriive surfaces the patterns behind ADHD and autism behaviours, so you can spot the triggers and respond earlier.
- Strategy Library: Real strategies for ADHD and autism, matched to your child's profile. Not generic advice.
- Visual Routine Builder: Step-by-step routines for the moments that usually go sideways. Mornings, bedtime, homework.
- Daily Check-ins: A 30-second mood check that builds a picture of how your child is really doing over time.
- Shareable Reports: Take real evidence to your GP, school, or therapist when it matters.
- The Hive: A community of parents who actually get it.
How Thriive helps parents, and how it helps their children
For parents
Understand your child like never before. Advocate with confidence. Stop feeling like you're figuring it out alone.
For children
Feel seen. Understand how your own brain works. Build a profile that's yours.
Neurodivergent conditions Thriive supports
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Teaching Flexible Thinking
Your child insists on things being done a certain way and melts down when plans change
Steps
- Introduce 'Plan A and Plan B' thinking: always have a backup plan
- Use 'What if?' games during calm times: 'What if the shop is closed? What could we do instead?'
- Celebrate when they cope with a change: 'You handled that change brilliantly!'
- Use visual supports: a 'change card' that signals something is different today
- Gradually introduce small, manageable changes into routines
What you need
Plan A/Plan B visual, 'what if' game time, change cards
Why it works
Autistic children rely on predictability to manage anxiety. When things change unexpectedly, it feels like the rules of the world have broken. Teaching Plan B thinking during calm moments builds a cognitive framework for handling change before it happens, reducing the shock when plans inevitably shift.
Age guidance
Most effective from age 5 onwards. Start with very small, manageable changes and build tolerance gradually over months, not weeks.
Real-world example
A family started playing 'what if?' at dinner: 'what if the swimming pool is closed?' Their child initially said 'we'd go home and cry' but after a few weeks started generating alternatives: 'we could go to the park instead.' The game made flexible thinking feel safe and even fun.
Troubleshooting
- Rigidity often increases when anxiety is high. Address the anxiety too
- Never spring changes on them without warning if you can avoid it
- Some rigidity is a coping mechanism. Work WITH it, not against it
