Helpful Handouts
Practical Resources to Support Your Child at School
Navigating your child’s learning needs can sometimes feel overwhelming. The right information can help you better understand your child’s strengths, identify areas where they may need additional support, and feel more confident working with their school team.
Evoke Learning’s Helpful Handouts provide practical, evidence-informed resources for parents of neurodivergent children and students with learning and executive function challenges. Use these guides as a starting point for conversations with teachers, school teams, and other professionals involved in your child’s education.
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Executive Function Needs: A Checklist for Teachers
Executive function skills (planning, organizing, starting tasks, holding information in mind, shifting between ideas, managing time, and regulating emotion) are still developing well into a person’s twenties. A child who struggles with these skills isn’t lacking motivation; the neural systems that support them are still under construction.
Our practical checklist helps families identify common executive function challenges and connect them with strategies that may help. Use it with your child’s teacher or school team to identify supports that address what is getting in the way of learning.
Advocating for a Child with ASD
When it comes to education team meetings, parents know their child better than anyone in the room. Research on family-school partnerships consistently finds that parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) bring essential insight into their child’s communication, sensory, and social needs, and that involving parents fully in the development of an individual education and learning plan, using their participation rights, leads to stronger outcomes than a school-led process alone.
Discover practical, evidence-informed strategies for advocating effectively for your child.
Resources for Navigating Your Child’s Learning Journey
Every child has different strengths and needs. These handouts are designed to help parents better understand some of the challenges their children may experience and provide practical starting points for conversations about support.
They are intended as general educational resources and do not replace individualized advice from your child’s assessment team, school, or school board.
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Evoke Learning provides customized, one-to-one online academic support, tutoring, and coaching for neurodivergent learners of all ages. Our evidence-based approach helps students build skills, confidence, and strategies that support academic success and social-emotional well-being.