Autism and Homework: Why It's So Much Harder Than It Looks and How to Actually Get It Done
If homework is a nightly crisis in your house, you are not failing as a parent. You are experiencing the entirely predictable result of asking a dysregulated child to perform complex cognitive work at exactly the moment when that is most neurologically difficult. The bad news: repeating the request louder and more urgently doesn't help. The good news: once you understand what's actually going on, there are real things to change.
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