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Resources for ADHD and Neurodivergence

Please note: Inclusion on this list does not imply endorsement of every item or guarantee it will be personally helpful for your situation. These resources are offered for educational purposes and do not replace individualized assessment or treatment.

Resources for Neurodivergent Clients and Families

At our practice, we believe in celebrating neurodiversity and providing families and individuals with tools, information, and community support. Below is a curated list of neurodivergence-affirming resources for ADHD, autism, and related traits.

Featured Resource

ADHD & Neurodiversity Education

Tools & Technology

ADHD Books & Podcasts

ADHD Books

  • ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD — Penn & Kim Holderness. Written in an ADHD-friendly way with graphics, colored pages, and stories from both ADHD and non-ADHD perspectives. Covers parenting, relationships, and ADHD strategies.

  • Small Talk: 10 ADHD Lies and How to Stop Believing Them — Richard Pink & Roxanne Pink. Focuses on challenging negative self-beliefs and shame experienced by many ADHD adults, with practical tips for partners.

  • How to ADHD: An Insider’s Guide to Working with Your Brain Not Against It — Jessica McCabe. Offers education, relatable stories, and actionable strategies, written in an engaging ADHD-friendly style.

  • Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do To Help — Richard Pink & Roxanne Emery. Shares ADHD perspectives from both ADHD and non-ADHD partners, with short, ADHD-friendly chapters.

  • ADHD 2.0 — Edward Hallowell & John Ratey. Offers an in-depth look at how ADHD brains work. Some deficit-based language and controversial strategies are included, so pick and choose what is helpful.

  • Driven to Distraction (Revised Edition) — Edward Hallowell & John Ratey. A classic, foundational book about ADHD in adults and children, combining case studies and practical strategies.

  • The ADHD Advantage — Dale Archer. Explores the positive traits of ADHD while providing practical tips for leveraging strengths.

  • You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy? — Kate Kelly & Peggy Ramundo. One of the earliest and still highly recommended books that addresses adult ADHD with a compassionate, affirming tone.

  • ADHD According to Zoë — Zoë Kessler. Offers personal perspective, strategies, and guidance for adults navigating ADHD in daily life.

  • ADHD Essentials: Parenting Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder — Brendan Mahan. Resourceful book for parents navigating ADHD in children.

  • The Queen of Distraction — Terry Matlen. Practical strategies for adults managing ADHD, including time management, organization, and self-care.

ADHD Podcasts

  • Divergent Conversations — Hosted by Dr. Megan Neff & Patrick Casale. Covers ADHD & autism from lived and professional experience.

  • I Have ADHD — Hosted by Kristen Carder. ADHD coach sharing insights, tools, and strategies.

  • Translating ADHD — Hosted by Asher Collins & Dusty Chipura. ADHD coaching insights, real-life strategies, and education.

  • ADHD Rewired — Hosted by Eric Tivers. Therapist and ADHD coach sharing evidence-based ADHD strategies.

  • Adulting with ADHD — Hosted by Sarah Snyder. Shares lived experience and tips for navigating adult ADHD.

  • Hacking Your ADHD — Hosted by William Curb. Offers practical strategies, personal experience, and neurodivergence-affirming advice.

  • Late Bloomers — Hosted by Rich & Roxanne Pink. Focused on adult ADHD experiences, self-acceptance, and relationship strategies.

  • Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast — Hosted by Niiki Kinzer & Pete Wright. ADHD coaching, tools, and lived experience stories.

  • ADHD for Smart Ass Women — Hosted by Tracy Otsuka. Supports women with ADHD through coaching, humor, and strategy.

  • ADHD Essentials Podcast — Hosted by Brendan Mahan. Tips and strategies for parents raising children with ADHD.

  • ADHD Experts Podcast — Hosted by ADDitude Magazine team. Interviews with experts, covering ADHD strategies, treatment, and lived experiences.

  • The Faster Than Normal Podcast — Hosted by Peter Shankman. Focuses on ADHD in adults, productivity, and harnessing ADHD strengths.

Autism Books & Podcasts

Autism Books

  • Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity — Devon Price. A research-backed, neurodiversity-affirming exploration of masking, burnout, sensory needs, and identity. Especially helpful for late-identified autistic adults.

  • NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity — Steve Silberman. An essential history that reframes autism as human diversity rather than pathology. Foundational and widely recommended.

  • Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You — Jenara Nerenberg. Focuses on autistic and ADHD women, sensory regulation, emotional intensity, and navigating adulthood in a neurotypical world.

  • The Reason I Jump — Naoki Higashida. Written by a nonspeaking autistic teen using letterboards; offers powerful insight into sensory overwhelm and communication differences.

  • The Electricity of Every Living Thing — Katherine May. A memoir exploring late-diagnosed autism, masking, sensory processing, and self-understanding.

  • Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum — Jennifer O’Toole. A candid look at autistic girlhood and womanhood, including masking, relationships, and identity.

  • Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking — Julia Bascom (Ed.). Essays from autistic authors centering advocacy, lived experience, sensory needs, and self-determination.

  • Sincerely, Your Autistic Child — Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu (Eds.). Essays by autistic adults offering guidance to autistic children and their parents.

  • What I Mean When I Say I’m Autistic — Annie Kotowicz. An accessible, concise guide to sensory experiences, communication differences, overstimulation, and supports.

  • I Will Die On This Hill: Autistic Adults, Autism Parents, and the Children Who Deserve a Better World — Meghan Ashburn & Jules Edwards. A collaborative look at communication, advocacy, and moving away from compliance-based parenting and therapies.

  • Thinking in Pictures — Temple Grandin. Explores visual thinking, sensory differences, and problem-solving from a well-known autistic perspective.

  • The Autistic Brain — Temple Grandin & Richard Panek. Blends personal experience and neuroscience research on sensory processing and cognitive diversity.

  • Look Me in the Eye — John Elder Robison. A memoir about growing up autistic and reframing autistic traits as strengths.

  • Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism — Barry Prizant. A strengths-based guide for parents and clinicians that views behavior as communication, not symptoms.

  • An Autistic’s Guide to Adventure — Laura Zhening Guo. Supports autistic teens and adults in trying new things, navigating sensory needs, and building self-trust.

  • The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention — Simon Baron-Cohen. Focuses on systemizing strengths and autistic cognition; helpful but not universally supported by advocates.

  • Connecting With the Autism Spectrum: How To Talk, How To Listen, And Why You Shouldn’t Call It High-Functioning — Casey “Remrov” Vormer. A friendly guide explaining communication differences, sensory needs, and respectful language.

  • All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism — Lydia X. Z. Brown (Ed.). Essays, poetry, and art by autistic people of color exploring identity, trauma, resilience, and intersectionality.

  • We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation — Eric Garcia. A journalist’s examination of accessibility barriers, public policy, and shifting the narrative around autism.

  • The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Temple Grandin — Julia Finley Mosca. A children’s picture book that celebrates neurodivergent thinking and creativity.

Autism Podcasts

  • Divergent Conversations — Hosted by Dr. Megan Neff & Patrick Casale. Covers ADHD & autism from lived and professional experience.

  • Autistic Voices — Hosted by AWN. Stories and advocacy from autistic adults.

  • The Neurodivergent Woman — Hosted by Michelle Livock & Monique Mitchelson. Focus on autistic women and AFAB individuals.

  • SquarePeg Podcast — Hosted by Amy Richards. Late-diagnosed autistic adults discuss masking and identity.

  • Autism Spectrum Radio — Hosted by Autism Spectrum Therapies. Interviews with autistic adults and professionals.

  • Autism Stories Podcast — Hosted by Doug Blecher. Lived experience and practical support.

  • Uniquely Human Podcast — Hosted by Barry Prizant & David Finnegan-Hosey. Supports relationship-based understanding of autism.

Giftedness Books & Podcasts

Giftedness Books

  • A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children — Webb et al. Emotional intensity, regulation, relationships, and advocacy for gifted learners.

  • The Gifted Kids Survival Guide — Galbraith & Delisle. Friendships, stress, and identity for gifted youth.

  • The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children — Neihart, Pfeiffer & Cross. Research-based guidance for supporting social-emotional needs.

  • Smart But Scattered — Dawson & Guare. Executive function support for bright but struggling learners.

  • Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults — Webb et al. Distinguishing gifted traits from clinical concerns.

  • Differently Wired — Deborah Reber. Strengths-based parenting strategies for gifted children.

  • Living With Intensity — Daniels & Piechowski. Emotional and sensory intensity in gifted children and teens.

  • Bright, Not Broken — Kennedy & Banks. Understanding and supporting twice-exceptional (2e) learners.

  • The Power of Different — Gail Saltz. Creativity, neurodivergence, and high-potential learning.

  • Giftedness 101 — Linda Silverman. Foundational overview of gifted and twice-exceptional development.

Giftedness Podcasts

  • The Fringy Bit — Boorman Family. Discusses giftedness, intensity, and sensory differences.

  • The Neurodiversity Podcast — Emily Kircher-Morris. Covers giftedness, ADHD, autism, and 2e support.

  • Mind Matters — Emily Kircher-Morris. Research-based discussions about gifted children and adults.

  • The G Word Podcast — Equity, identity, and giftedness insights.

  • Parenting the Gifted — Emotional development and school support strategies.

  • The Gifted Parenting Journey — Gail Post. Advocacy, identity, and emotional needs for gifted children.

  • The Exceptional Parenting Podcast — Focused on twice-exceptional (2e) parenting and support strategies.

Twice-Exceptional (2e) Books

  • Bright Kids Who Can’t Keep Up — Ellen Braaten & Brian Willoughby. Executive function challenges in high-ability learners.

  • Twice Exceptional — Scott Barry Kaufman (Ed.). Research-based strategies for 2e students.

  • To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled — Baum, Schader & Owen. Strengths-based support for 2e learners.

  • The Gifted Teen Survival Guide (2e Edition) — Galbraith & Delisle. Identity and executive function tools for teens.

  • Helping Twice-Exceptional Students Thrive — Emily Kircher-Morris. Affirming strategies for home and school.

  • The Mislabeled Child — Brock & Fernette Eide. Understanding overlaps between giftedness, ADHD, autism, and learning differences.

  • Creative Intelligence — Bruce Nussbaum. Divergent thinking and creativity in 2e learners.

ADHD & Autism Resources by Audience

Educators

  • The ADHD Empowerment Guide — James W. Forgan & Mary Anne Richey. Practical classroom strategies.

  • Smart but Scattered for Teachers — Peg Dawson & Richard Guare. Supports executive function in students.

  • Helping Students with Executive Functioning Challenges — Joyce Cooper-Kahn & Margaret Foster. Classroom-ready EF strategies.

  • The Teacher’s Guide to ADHD — Robert Reid & Joseph Johnson. Evidence-based teaching and differentiation.

  • Differentiation and the Brain — David A. Sousa & Carol Ann Tomlinson. Brain-based strategies for neurodivergent learners.

  • Uniquely Human — Barry Prizant. Strengths-based, relational approach to supporting autistic students.

  • Neurodiversity in the Classroom — Thomas Armstrong. Inclusive, strength-based teaching practices.

Parents

  • What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew — Sharon Saline. Connection-based approach to ADHD.

  • The Explosive Child — Ross Greene. Supports emotional regulation and flexibility.

  • The ADHD Parenting Handbook — Colleen Alexander-Roberts. Affirming, practical strategies for ADHD.

  • Differently Wired — Deborah Reber. Strengths-based parenting for ADHD and gifted children.

  • Uniquely Human — Barry Prizant. Compassionate guide to autism and behavior as communication.

  • The Out-of-Sync Child — Carol Stock Kranowitz. Sensory processing guidance for autistic children.

  • Parenting the Gifted / The Gifted Parenting Journey — Emotional support, advocacy, and strategies for gifted or 2e children.

Kids & Teens

  • A Kid’s Guide to ADHD — Beth Ann Hill. Easy-to-read, illustrated ADHD guide for children.

  • The Survival Guide for Kids with ADHD — John Taylor. Illustrated strategies for managing ADHD.

  • ADHD Is My Superpower — Afsaneh Moradian. Strengths-focused picture book for ADHD children.

  • Focused — Alyson Gerber. Middle-grade novel about neurodivergence.

  • Different Like Me — Jennifer Elder. Stories of autistic and neurodivergent role models.

  • All My Stripes — Shaina Rudolph & Danielle Royer. Identity-affirming picture book for autistic children.

  • A Kind of Spark — Elle McNicoll. Middle-grade novel about an autistic girl’s journey.

  • The Asperkid’s (Secret) Book of Social Rules — Jennifer Cook. Accessible guide for autistic teens.

Clinicians

  • Taking Charge of ADHD — Russell Barkley. Evidence-based ADHD reference.

  • CBT for Children and Adolescents With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders — Scarpa, Wells & Attwood. Adapted CBT strategies.

  • The Neurodiversity Approach to Autism — Clinical guide to strength-based, affirming interventions.

  • Clinical Practice Guideline for ADHD (AAP) — Diagnostic and treatment standards for clinicians.

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD — J. Russell Ramsay & Anthony Rostain. Evidence-based adult ADHD therapy.

  • Motivational Interviewing in Schools — Herman, Reinke & Frey. Supports ADHD and neurodivergent students.

  • A Spectrum of Solutions for Clients With Autism — Bedard & Hecker. Relationship-based interventions for autistic clients.

Featured Podcasts

  • Divergent Conversations — Hosted by Dr. Megan Neff & Patrick Casale. Covers ADHD & autism from lived and professional experience.
  • I Have ADHD — Hosted by Kristen Carder. ADHD coach sharing insights, tools, and strategies.
  • Translating ADHD — Hosted by Asher Collins & Dusty Chipura. ADHD coaching insights, real-life strategies, and education.
  • ADHD Rewired — Hosted by Eric Tivers. Therapist and ADHD coach sharing evidence-based ADHD strategies.
  • Adulting with ADHD — Hosted by Sarah Snyder. Shares lived experience and tips for navigating adult ADHD.
  • Hacking Your ADHD — Hosted by William Curb. Offers practical strategies, personal experience, and neurodivergence-affirming advice.
  • Late Bloomers — Hosted by Rich & Roxanne Pink. Focused on adult ADHD experiences, self-acceptance, and relationship strategies.
  • Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast — Hosted by Niiki Kinzer & Pete Wright. ADHD coaching, tools, and lived experience stories.
  • ADHD for Smart Ass Women — Hosted by Tracy Otsuka. Supports women with ADHD through coaching, humor, and strategy.
  • ADHD Essentials Podcast — Hosted by Brendan Mahan. Tips and strategies for parents raising children with ADHD.
  • ADHD Experts Podcast — Hosted by ADDitude Magazine team. Interviews with experts, covering ADHD strategies, treatment, and lived experiences.
  • The Faster Than Normal Podcast — Hosted by Peter Shankman. Focuses on ADHD in adults, productivity, and harnessing ADHD strengths.

Notes

These books and podcasts are recommended for educational and support purposes and are not a substitute for medical or mental health care. Please use your own discretion and select resources that resonate with your needs and values.

Last updated: 11/2025 

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Erin McKeen LMFT, ATR

Jenna Vissell, LMFT

Minda Sanborn, LMFT



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