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Inflexibility
Organizational Resources
Attention
Executive Functioning
Hyperactivity Impulsivity
Monotropism
Social Communication
Exteroception
Interoception
Sensory
Accommodations for Executive Functioning Differences
- Task management: use tools or planners that break down goals into manageable tasks and track progress.
- Use goal-setting frameworks like SMART goals to help achieve realistic objectives.
- Schedule one-on-one check-ins
- Provide accountability partners
- Offer metacognition workshops
- Foster a culture of open communication
- Provide access to note taking, checklists, and template apps to help with working memory
- Teach chunking techniques to help break down large amounts of info into manageable units
- Stress management workshops
- Allow for mental health days to manage stress and recharge
- Offer assistive technologies
- Offer flexible schedules
- Offer adaptive work environments
- Structured tasks and clear instructions
- Fegular feedback to discuss progress
- Breaks and downtime
- Mindfulness and relaxation programs
- Mentorship
- Support groups
- Inclusivity training for staff
- Focus and productivity workshops
Accommodations for Cognitive Processing
- Role customization and specialized projects
- Flexible work hours
- Remote work options
- Task management and time tracking apps
- Quiet spaces or personalized work stations
- Noise cancelling headphones
- Focus apps
- Clear communication and expectations
Accommodations for Sensory Differences
- Sensory friendly environments
- Flexible seating
- Visual aids/organizers
- Assistive technology
- Sensory products/toolkit
- Sensory awareness training
- Accommodations manuals
- Guidelines for implementing sensory friendly practices in the workplace
- Flexible work policies
- Personalized accommodations
- Maintain consistent workspaces, daily routines, and schedules, and advance notice to changes
- Provide clear timelines and frequent updates. schedules, or processes
- Involve folks in the planning process
- Offer detailed explanations of why changes are necessary and how they will be implemented
- Clearly communicate expectations in advance
- Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and understood
- Create organized and structured workspaces
- Allow employees to personalize their workspaces
- Identify and leverage each employee's strengths and interests in their role, tasks, and projects
- Consider each employee's unique abilities and working style in goal setting
- Provide options for remote work
- Allow flexible working hours
- Offer opportunities for self-directed projects that align with their interests and strengths
- Provide clear, direct, and detailed instructions; use written communication
- Conduct training sessions to raise awareness and understanding of neurodiversity
- Implement exercises that promote empathy and respect for diverse working styles
- Implement peer support groups, buddy systems, and mentorship programs
- Offer wellness programs i
- Create continuous feedback mechanisms.
- Foster an open door policy and open dialogue
Accommodations for Inflexibility Differences
Accommodations for Hyperactivity/Impulsivity Differences
- Offer a variety of work stations
- Provide quiet zones or rooms
- Create calming spaces
- Provide fidgets, stress balls
- Provide noise-cancelling headphones
- Remote work and hybrid work schedules
- Fexible working schedules
- Encourage regular breaks
- Provide access to productivity apps and time management tools.
- Use project management software to organize tasks and help with collaboration, and tools to help prioritize tasks and set deadlines
- Provide visual schedules and planners for tracking tasks/deadlines, and boards to visualize work progress
- Offer workshops on time management, organization, and prioritization skills
- Provide access to professional coaching to develop personalized strategies for managing hyperactivity and impulsivity
- Offer mindfulness training and relaxation techniques.
- Offer support networks, mentorship opportunities, or buddy systems
- Offer inclusive trainings, empathy building exercises, n
- Offer non-discriminatory and accommodation policies
- Offer employee feedback mechanisms, and regular review to ensure policies remain inclusive and effective.
Accommodations for Attention Differences
- Reduce noise in the workplace
- Offer a variety of workstations to suit attention needs
- Personalized workstations to reduce distractions and enhance focus
- Apps that help with task management and productivity.
- Project management software that helps to organize tasks and facilitate collaboration.
- Tools that help to prioritize tasks and set deadlines.
- Visual schedules for tracking tasks and deadlines, and boards to visualize work progress.
- Remote work policies or hybrid schedules and flexible working hours
- Schedule regular breaks
- Time management and organizational workshops
- Personalized coaching to help develop personalized strategies for managing attention
- Provide clear, written instructions and SMART goals to stay focused and track progress
- Schedule frequent one-on-one meetings and implement continuous feedback mechanisms
- Conduct inclusive trainings and non-discrimination policies
- Establish a clear process for requesting and implementing accommodations
- Support networks, mentorship programs, and buddy systems
Accommodations for Social/Communication Differences
- Offer bidirectional education workshops and empathy exercises
- Non-verbal communication education
- Assign group tasks that require collaboration
- Use anonymous surveys or suggestion boxes for communication improvement suggestions
- Skill development for neurotypical employees
- Mentorship programs
- Customize workshops to address specific communication challenges
- Highlight the strengths and contributions of ND folks.
- Normalize differences
- Encourage curiousity and respect
- Inclusive trainings on the double empathy problem
Accommodations for Exteroception Differences
- Accommodate sensory needs while fostering positive interpersonal interactions
- Sensory friendly social spaces
- Allow adjustments to work stations
- Offer individualized accommodation plans, regular reviews, and adaptive equipment.
- Offer both low-stimulation and more dynamic environments.
- Request accommodations for social events
- Create outdoor social areas
- Clear and direct communication
- Share meeting agendas in advance
- Allow optional participation in meetings/social events to respect sensory thresholds
- Offer sensory awareness training to employees and empathy building
- Offer remote work options and hybrid schedules
- Staggered work hours
- Offer alternative communicaiton methods
- Inclusive leadership training
- Offer peer support groups or buddy syetems
Accommodations for Emotion Differences
- Provide education that discusses interoception differences and social/communication differences
- Develop accommodation policies
- Enforce non-discrimination policies
- Bidirectional scripts
- Clear and consistent communication protocols, including written instructions and feedback
- Emotion identification tools
- Mental health and wellness programs
- Create quiet rooms or relaxation areas
- Peer support groups and mentorship programs
- One-on-one meetings and feedback mechanisms
- Supportive and constructive performance reviews
- Supporting longer processing times + offering flexible deadlines