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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Ask whether anyone kept the old school reports. The same lines turn up generation after generation: not working to potential, talks too much, never has the right books with him.
They were written by teachers who had never heard of ADHD, about children nobody was going to assess, and that is exactly what makes them worth…
'I am disorganised' cannot be treated. 'The post piles up on the hall table until something ends up with a debt collector' can. Spend the time getting the problem down to something that specific.
Push for the particulars: which task, which moment, what was happening just before, what they did instead. Where you can, ask someone who was there…
For the child who flies off the handle at noise, labels and crowded rooms, with no autism diagnosis in the picture, a free parent completed sensitivity questionnaire will tell you more than another behaviour chart.
It gives you a structured way to describe the reactivity without reaching for a diagnosis the child may not have, and it points at what to change:…
Run the assessment yourself and watch while they work. Under real effort you will see the small movements, the tics and the overflow that never appear in ordinary conversation, and none of it reaches you if a technician or an app does the testing.
Sit where you can see hands and face. Note what happens as the task gets harder: the tongue that comes out, the leg that starts going, the free hand…
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