From Accommodations to Independence

An Executive Function Guide for Parents, Educators & Evaluators

Accommodations can help a child succeed today. But are they also helping them build the skills they’ll need tomorrow?

This 22-page practical guide takes a different look at some of the most common accommodations given to neurodivergent students and students with executive function challenges. Rather than simply providing another list of supports, it helps parents, educators, and evaluators understand the executive function skills underneath them and how accommodations can be individualized to meet a student at their current point of performance while still creating opportunities for growth.

Inside, you'll explore common supports including extended time, teacher prompting and check ins, assignment chunking, organization, time management, regulation breaks, and reduced distraction environments. Each section shows how the same accommodation may need to look very different depending on the individual student, along with stronger accommodation language, practical school strategies, home based skill building, and a clear direction for increasing student ownership.

Grounded in foundational executive function skills including self awareness, self regulation, self motivation, self monitoring, and self evaluation, this guide will help you move beyond asking:

“What support does this child need?”

and begin asking:

“What can we intentionally teach while that support is in place?”

Because the goal is to help children understand themselves, use support effectively, advocate for what they need, and become increasingly capable of navigating the demands of school and life.