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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