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Autism & ADHD
Stay informed about neurodivergence with news and updates from clinical experts. Scientific information, evidence-based treatments, and more.
Identified With ADHD After 60: What Changes, What Doesn't, and Whether Evaluation Is Still Worth It
Identified with ADHD after 60? What a later-life evaluation does differently, how treatment changes with age, and when it is still worth doing.
Kiesa Kelly
3 days ago11 min read
Inattentive ADHD (ADD) in Adults: Signs and Diagnosis
What predominantly inattentive ADHD looks like in adults, what diagnosis requires, why people still say ADD, and the look-alikes to rule out.
Kiesa Kelly
4 days ago13 min read
Handing the Systems Over: Moving From Parent-Run Supports to Teen-Run Ones
How to move the systems you run for your teen, from wake-up to appointments, into their hands one at a time, and what to do when a handover stalls.
Kiesa Kelly
5 days ago12 min read
Autistic Inertia vs. Executive Dysfunction: How It Differs
Autistic inertia makes starting, stopping and switching hard. How it differs from ADHD executive dysfunction, depression and burnout, and what helps.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 2313 min read
Setting Up a Sensory-Friendly Home: Low-Cost Changes That Reduce Daily Load
Room-by-room, low-cost and renter-friendly ways to make your home easier on your senses, plus how to share a home when sensory needs differ.
ScienceWorks Team
Oct 2312 min read
Monotropism: An Autistic-Led Model of Focus, Transitions, and Overwhelm
Monotropism is an autistic-led model of focus, transitions and overwhelm. What it proposes, what the evidence shows so far, and what it means for support.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 2211 min read
Why Unstructured Time Is Harder: Weekends, Sabbaticals, and Executive Function
Weekends, vacations and long breaks can be harder than busy weeks with ADHD or executive function challenges. Why, and how to plan open time that holds.
ScienceWorks Team
Oct 2210 min read
Referring a Teen (12-17) for an ADHD or Autism Evaluation: A Guide for Pediatricians and School Counselors
For pediatricians and school counselors: when to refer a 12- to 17-year-old, why teen girls get missed, private vs school evaluations, and consent.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 2112 min read
ADHD in the Postpartum Year: Why It Can Feel Harder, and What Else to Check
Why ADHD can feel harder after a baby, how to tell it from postpartum depression or anxiety, what is known about hormones, and when to get evaluated.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 2116 min read
Recommending Executive Function Coaching After an Evaluation: A Guide for Referring Clinicians
For evaluating clinicians: when coaching belongs in your recommendations, how to write it with a target and a measure, what the evidence shows.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 2111 min read
Referring a Therapy Client for an ADHD or Autism Assessment: A Guide for Therapists
For therapists: when to refer a client for an adult ADHD, autism or AuDHD assessment, how to raise it, and how your client stays in therapy with you.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 2114 min read
Referring an Adult for an ADHD, Autism or AuDHD Evaluation: What Primary Care Clinicians Need to Know
For primary care: when to refer an adult for an autism, ADHD or AuDHD evaluation, how to write the referral question, and how the report fits prescribing.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 2111 min read
Echolalia in Autistic Adults: Spoken, Internal and Silent
Why autistic adults repeat words and lines, how echolalia differs from masking scripts, what else can cause it, and when an evaluation can help.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 1914 min read
Executive Function Coaching for Household and Family Logistics
How executive function coaching helps with meals, appointments, forms and the invisible planning load at home, and when an evaluation should come first.
ScienceWorks Team
Oct 1911 min read
Depression in Autistic Adults: Why It Can Look Different and Get Missed
Depression is common in autistic adults but easy to miss. Learn how it can look different, why it gets overlooked, how screeners fit in, and what helps.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 1915 min read
Teen Can't Plan Ahead? Skill Gap, Effort or Something Else
Is your teen's planning problem a skill still developing, low effort, or something else? How to read the signs, and when an evaluation makes sense.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 1916 min read
Rejection Sensitivity at Work: Reading Neutral Feedback as Catastrophe
Does neutral feedback at work feel like a verdict? How rejection sensitivity differs from real concerns, a hostile workplace, anxiety or depression.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 1916 min read
After a Late 2e Identification: How to Explain It to Your Family
Newly identified as twice-exceptional? Plain-language ways to explain a 2e profile to parents, partners and friends, and what to do if they doubt it.
ScienceWorks Team
Oct 1913 min read
Do I Need a Referral for Psychological Testing?
You often do not need a referral to book psychological testing, but your plan may need one to pay. See how plan type and your reason for testing matter.
Ryan Burns
Oct 1918 min read
Chronic Underachiever or Twice-Exceptional? What It Means
Bright but not working to potential? Learn what gifted underachievement means, how it differs from 2e, and what an adult evaluation can show.
Kiesa Kelly
Oct 1616 min read
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