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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Morning Prep for Dyspraxia
Your child struggles with buttons, zips, and getting dressed independently
Steps
- Lay out clothes the night before in the ORDER they go on
- Choose clothes with elastic waists, pull-on shoes, and minimal fastenings
- Use a visual 'getting dressed' sequence at their eye level
- Allow extra time. Rushing increases frustration
- Celebrate independence: 'You did your socks all by yourself!'
What you need
Adaptive clothing, visual sequence card, extra time built into morning
Why it works
Dyspraxia affects motor planning and sequencing, which means tasks like getting dressed require significantly more cognitive effort. Removing physical barriers (complex fastenings) and providing visual sequences reduces the demand on an already overloaded system, freeing up energy for the task itself.
Age guidance
Most impactful for ages 3-9. Older children may need support transitioning to school uniform adaptations and building independence with specific fastenings.
Real-world example
One parent switched to all pull-on clothing and saw an immediate change — their child went from needing 20 minutes of help to getting dressed independently in 10. The confidence boost was even bigger than the time saved.
Troubleshooting
- Occupational therapists can recommend specific adaptive clothing brands
- Practise fastenings during calm, low-pressure times, not during the morning rush
- Shoe horns and loop-pull zips make a huge difference
