The clinicians, neurodivergent advocates, and thinkers behind New Path Family's free Learning Center — with deep gratitude to everyone who helped build it. Show the full page text Contributors & acknowledgments This Learning Center exists because of a lot of generous people, and we are deeply, genuinely grateful to every one of them — the neurodivergent advocates who shared their own lives, the clinicians who shaped the care behind it, the people who built and checked the technical pieces, and the thinkers whose work lit the way. Thank you, all of you. Lived-experience voices Ashley YLK — Autism Advocate & Educator, She Rocks the Spectrum. Dr. Michelle Karth — Autism Advocate & Scientific Advisor, PhD Behavioral Neuroscience (Purdue University), Adult Autism Assessment Center. Brooke Tidwell — Autism Advocate & Parenting Specialist; AuDHD educator, Parenting Autism Therapy Center. New Path Family clinical team All are New Path clinicians. Nara Ahn Alyssa Bayus Lea Choi Daniel Chung Cassie Clayton Conor Cunningham Shea Davis Jennifer Evans Malori Evans Shandy Grantham Robin Greenblat Danielle Grossman Jamison Haase Kimberly Hawks Maring Higa Colleen Kahn Joseph Kaiser Blaze Lazarony Chris Mercurio Dr. Harry Motro Jenny Pan Leila Pirnia Stephen Robertson Nancy Rushing Amanda Silvester Adela Stone Tamala Takahashi Jen Terrell Rachel Wheeler Jory Wilson Technical contributions Jasmyne Mena Cassondra McIntyre With gratitude — the thinkers whose work shaped ours We borrowed, learned from, and built on the frameworks of many, across all five programs — a few of them, grouped by the program where their work most shaped ours: Foundations — The Neurodivergent Brain Judy Singer — the neurodiversity paradigm. Dr. Nick Walker — neurodiversity & neuroqueer theory. Dr. Damian Milton — the double empathy problem. Dr. Catherine Crompton — the research that put double empathy to the test. Dr. Dinah Murray, Mike Lesser & Dr. Wenn Lawson — monotropism. Dr. Megan Anna Neff — neuro-affirming frameworks (Neurodivergent Insights). Dr. William Dodson — the interest-based nervous system & rejection sensitivity. Dr. Stephen Porges — polyvagal theory. Dr. Dan Siegel — the window of tolerance. Dr. Dora Raymaker — autistic burnout research. Dr. Laura Hull & Dr. Will Mandy — camouflaging research & the CAT-Q. Dr. Monique Botha & David Frost — the minority-stress model of autistic wellbeing. Dr. Helen Taylor — complementary cognition. Christine Miserandino — spoon theory. Dr. Devon Price — unmasking & autistic labor. Dr. Kristy Forbes — autistic & AuDHD identity support. Parenting Autism Dr. Mona Delahooke — behavior as a nervous-system signal. Elizabeth Newson — the first description of the PDA profile. Dr. Elizabeth O’Nions — measuring demand avoidance (the EDA-Q). Linda Murphy — declarative language. Dr. Winnie Dunn — the sensory-processing framework. Dr. Steven Kapp — stimming as self-regulation, and difference over deficit. Dr. Richard Ryan & Dr. Edward Deci — self-determination theory. Dr. Kristin Neff — self-compassion. Dr. Ruth Feldman, with Butler & Randall — parent-child co-regulation & synchrony. Dr. Pauline Boss — ambiguous loss. Peter Vermeulen — identity-positive disclosure. Andrea Loewen Nair — after-school restraint collapse. The Neurodiverse Couple Michael White & David Epston — narrative therapy & externalizing the problem. Dr. Murray Bowen — family-systems differentiation. Drs. Peter Gollwitzer & Paschal Sheeran — implementation intentions (if-then plans). Maxine Aston — the Cassandra phenomenon. Dr. Elizabeth Pellicano & Dr. David Burr — the Bayesian account of autistic perception. Dr. John Gottman — shared meaning & the rituals of connection. Eva Mendes — neurodiverse-couple therapy. The Autistic Woman Sarah Bargiela, Robyn Steward & Dr. Will Mandy — the female autism phenotype & late diagnosis. Dr. Sarah Cassidy — camouflaging & mental-health risk. Dr. Eilidh Cage & Jessica Troxell-Whitman — the contexts and costs of camouflaging. Dr. Punit Shah & colleagues — alexithymia, interoception & autism. Dr. Geraldine Downey & Scott Feldman — the rejection-sensitivity model. Dr. Rachel Moseley — autistic experiences of menopause. Drs. Vikram Jaswal & Nameera Akhtar — being versus appearing socially uninterested. The Adult ADHD Course Dr. Russell Barkley & Dr. Thomas Brown — the self-regulation & executive-function model of ADHD. Dr. Edward Hallowell & Dr. John Ratey — a strengths-based understanding of ADHD. Dr. Stephen Faraone — the genetics of ADHD & the International Consensus Statement. Dr. Nora Volkow — the dopamine reward-pathway account of ADHD motivation. Dr. Philip Shaw — ADHD as delayed — not deviant — cortical maturation. Dr. Edmund Sonuga-Barke — delay aversion & the dual-pathway model. Dr. Sari Solden — the overlooked inner world of women with ADHD. Melissa Orlov — how ADHD patterns play out in relationships. Dr. Steven Safren & Dr. Mary Solanto — CBT & metacognitive skills for adult ADHD. This Learning Center is not authored or endorsed by any of the individuals named above; we simply applied, and are grateful for, their published work. More from New Path Family Free, self-paced courses: The Neurodivergent Brain , The Neurodiverse Couple , The Autistic Woman , Parenting Autism , The Adult ADHD Course . Also here: the Learning Center , the worksheet library , about New Path Family , our sister organization's therapy centers , privacy and terms , the education grant .

Nine free self-paced programs, 156 modules and 359 worksheets on autism, ADHD, relationships and identity. No account, no cost. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Show the full page text NEW PATH FAMILY NEW PATH LEARNING CENTER Plain-language programs about neurodivergent minds, bodies, and relationships — written by clinicians, shaped by lived experience. Always free. No sign-up. Start anywhere. Explore the programs → OR SEARCH THE LEARNING CENTER Try “meltdowns”, “can’t start tasks”, “my partner doesn’t get it” — the search reads topics, not just titles. Five programs, one Learning Center Each program is a complete, self-paced guide — lessons, videos, screeners, and workbooks. Start with whichever one fits your life. Take what helps. Skip what doesn’t. PROGRAM 01 The Neurodivergent Brain How neurodivergent brains and nervous systems actually work — sensory processing, executive function, meltdowns, burnout, and relationships. 23 modules. Start the program → PROGRAM 02 The Neurodiverse Couple For couples where one or both partners are neurodivergent — communication, repair, intimacy, and the patterns that finally make sense once you name them. 24 modules. Start the program → PROGRAM 03 The Autistic Woman For autistic women — masking, burnout, hormones, sensory life, relationships, identity, and being believed. 22 modules. Start the program → PROGRAM 04 Parenting Autism For parents of autistic and ADHD kids — and parents who are wired the same way. Understand your child’s brain, survive the hard moments, and take care of yourself, too. 22 modules. Start the program → PROGRAM 05 The Adult ADHD Course For adults with ADHD — diagnosed, newly identified, or still wondering. How your brain actually works, the hard parts of daily life, relationships and work, and building a life that fits you. 16 modules. Start the program → The Self-Discovery courses Four shorter courses for the questions that come before and after a program: whether the words fit you at all, what the screeners actually measure, what an in-depth assessment involves, and what a diagnosis does and does not change. Forty-nine modules between them, held to the same rule as everything else here — every figure read from the source, every screener cited. SELF-DISCOVERY 01 Self-Identification For adults who recognise themselves in autism or ADHD without a diagnosis. What a label is and what it is not, the criteria in plain language, reading your own history, telling people, and what changes on Monday morning. 12 modules. Start the course → SELF-DISCOVERY 02 Autistic Self-Discovery One autism screening questionnaire per module — what it measures, where it came from, and what your score does and does not mean. 19 modules. Start the course → SELF-DISCOVERY 03 ADHD Self-Discovery One adult ADHD screener per module, read the same way: provenance, limits, and what a number is and is not evidence of. 10 modules. Start the course → SELF-DISCOVERY 04 The Assessment What an in-depth adult assessment actually involves — who assesses you, choosing a service and what to ask, what you will be asked, the instruments you are likely to meet, and how to read the report. 8 modules. Start the course → More from the nonprofit Everything New Path Family publishes is free — the programs, the worksheets, all of it. Here is the rest of it, plus a plain answer to who we are and where therapy actually comes from. Worksheet Library Every worksheet, screener, script and planner from the five programs — free to download, no sign-up, no email. Open the library → About New Path Family A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 87-0816107. What we publish, how the work is funded, and what we do not do. Read about the nonprofit → Contributors and acknowledgments The clinicians, advocates and neurodivergent readers who helped write and check the Learning Center. See who built this → New Path Family is an education nonprofit and does not provide therapy. Assessment, couples work and coaching are provided by a separate company, New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. How that works → New Path Family exists so that every neurodivergent person — and everyone who loves them — has a place to turn. We heal. We teach. We care — person to person. Difference is beautiful. Learning is free. Help is right here. Talk to Our Team

A free, neurodivergent-affirming course on how autistic, ADHD and AuDHD minds work — 23 in-depth modules with screeners, videos and workbooks. Sensory processing, masking, RSD, burnout, relationships, assessment, and building your own regulation toolkit. Show the full course text NEW PATH LEARNING CENTER · PROGRAM 01 FREE · SELF-PACED THE NEURODIVERGENT BRAIN Understand your neurodivergent brain — and regulate it from the inside out. A free, self-paced program about how autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD brains and nervous systems actually work. Built from real research, written in plain language, with workbooks you keep. Start the Program → Browse all modules Talk to a clinician All 23 modules Free, no sign-up. Read in order, or jump straight to what you need today. Part One · Foundations 01 What Is Neurodivergence? 02 The Neurodivergent Nervous System 03 Sensory Processing 04 Executive Function 05 The Monotropic Mind Part Two · The Big Experiences 06 Masking & Authenticity 07 Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria 08 Emotional Dysregulation & Alexithymia 09 Meltdowns and Shutdowns 10 Anxiety and Intolerance of Uncertainty 11 Demand Avoidance and PDA 12 Trauma, CPTSD, and Grief 13 Perseveration, Rumination, and Thought Loops 14 Burnout, Capacity, and Energy Management Part Three · Relationships and the World 15 Sex and Intimacy 16 Self-Esteem, Identity, and Late Diagnosis 17 Self-Identification and Assessment 18 Communication Across Neurotypes 19 Neurodiverse Relationships Part Four · Integration and Application 20 The Body 21 Women, Hormones, and Neurodivergence 22 Building Your Personal Regulation Toolkit 23 For Supporters Built by a clinical team that works with neurodivergent people every day. New Path Family of Therapy Centers brings together clinicians, advocates, and researchers across more than a dozen specialty practices. The Neurodivergent Brain is the program we wished existed when our clients first came looking for answers — written by the people who sit with these questions every week. Clinical team Therapists, assessors, coaches, and neurodivergent advocates working across the New Path family of centers. Lived experience Autistic and AuDHD voices shape what we write — inside the practice and on camera. See the videos in the sensory module. Real research Every module is built on research and names where the evidence is still unsettled. A 23-module program about how neurodivergent brains and nervous systems work. Each module covers one topic in depth — what is happening in the brain, what it looks and feels like, why it happens, and what actually helps. Who this is for: neurodivergent adults, partners, family members, clinicians, and educators. What happens inside a module. Every module follows the same six-step arc. About 20–30 minutes, start to finish. 1 Read the lesson The neuroscience and the human reality, in plain language. Roughly 8–12 minutes of reading. 2 See what helps The practical part, right after the lesson — concrete strategies that fit how your brain actually works, while the context is still fresh. 3 Watch the videos Hearing from real people — voices who explain the research in a way that actually makes sense, and share their own lived experience. 4 Take the screener — for self-discovery A short, validated questionnaire — about 5 minutes — now that you have the context. Bring your results into the workbook; it’s for self-discovery, not a diagnosis. 5 Do the workbook Short, specific prompts that turn the lesson into something you actually use. Your answers save to your browser — no sign-in. 6 Download your PDF — or talk to a clinician Export your workbook as a clean PDF to keep, share with a therapist, or bring to your next session. All modules Finding out: self-identification and assessment Sometimes the biggest step isn’t any single module — it’s the question underneath: am I neurodivergent? You can arrive at an answer two ways, and both are valid. However you get there, naming it can change everything — and it rarely lands as one clean feeling. Module 17 — Self-Identification and Assessment walks through both paths, and everything that comes after. Explore the free screeners → Learn about getting assessed → Assessment services are offered through the Adult Autism Assessment Center , part of the New Path family. Ready to talk to someone? This program is built to stand on its own. But if reading it makes you want a conversation — about assessment, therapy, coaching, or just where to start — we are right here. Talk to our team →

A free, self-paced course for couples where one or both partners are autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD — communication, conflict, co-regulation, and repair that fit ND brains. Show the full course text NEW PATH LEARNING CENTER · PROGRAM 02 FREE · SELF-PACED THE NEURODIVERSE COUPLE Understand the two operating systems in your relationship — and rebuild the bridge between them. A free, clinician-written program for couples where one or both partners are autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD — why two different operating systems misread each other, and how understanding rebuilds the bridge. Start the Program → Browse all modules Talk to a clinician All 24 modules Free, no sign-up. Read in order, or jump straight to what you need today. Part One · Foundations 01 What Is a Neurodiverse Relationship? 02 Two Operating Systems 03 The Recognition 04 The Understanding Gap Part Two · The Core Dynamics 05 Communication Breakdowns and Misreads 06 RSD and Conflict 07 PDA in the Couple 08 Meltdowns, Shutdowns, and the Partner's Role 09 Sensory Needs in a Shared Life 10 Alone Time, Together Time 11 The Roles We Fall Into 12 Executive Function and the Mental Load 13 Masking at Home 14 The Cassandra Experience Part Three · Where It Shows Up 15 Money 16 Sex and Intimacy 17 Parenting 18 Extended Family and In-Laws Part Four · Repair and Growth 19 Loss and Grief in the Relationship 20 Trust and the Resentment Backlog 21 Repair Cycles That Actually Work for ND Brains 22 Co-Regulation as a Couple 23 Therapy for the Neurodiverse Couple 24 Building Your Couple Operating Manual Built by a clinical team that works with neurodiverse couples every day. This program comes out of the Neurodiverse Couples Counseling Center and the wider New Path Family of Therapy Centers, where clinicians, advocates, and researchers sit with neurodiverse couples week after week. The Neurodiverse Couple is the program we wished existed when our clients first came looking for answers — written by the people who do this work every day. Clinical team Therapists, assessors, and coaches who work with neurodiverse couples every day — alongside neurodivergent advocates — across the New Path family of centers. Lived experience Autistic and AuDHD voices shape what we write — inside the practice and on camera. See the videos in the sensory module. Real research Every module cites peer-reviewed work and names where the evidence is still unsettled. A 24-module program about what happens when two operating systems meet in one relationship. Each module covers one topic in depth — what is happening in the brain, what it looks and feels like, why it happens, and what actually helps. Who this is for: couples where one or both partners are autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD — whether you read it together or on your own — and the partners, family members, and clinicians who want to understand them. What happens inside a module. Every module follows the same six-step arc. About 20–30 minutes, start to finish. 1 Read the lesson The neuroscience and the human reality, in plain language. Roughly 8–12 minutes of reading. 2 See what helps The practical part, right after the lesson — concrete strategies that fit how your brain actually works, while the context is still fresh. 3 Watch the videos Hearing from real people — voices who explain the research in a way that actually makes sense, and share their own lived experience. 4 Take the screener — for self-discovery A short, validated questionnaire — about 5 minutes — now that you have the context. Bring your results into the workbook; it’s for self-discovery, not a diagnosis. 5 Do the workbook Short, specific prompts that turn the lesson into something you actually use. Your answers save to your browser — no sign-in. 6 Download your PDF — or talk to a clinician Export your workbook as a clean PDF to keep, share with a therapist, or bring to your next session. All modules Ready to talk to someone? This program is built to stand on its own. But if reading it makes you want a conversation — about assessment, therapy, coaching, or just where to start — we are right here. Talk to our team →

Get answers to questions about our learning center run by our New Path non-profit. Frequently Asked Questions Show the full page text New Path Family is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity that publishes free, plain-language education for autistic and ADHD adults and the people who love them. These are the questions we are asked most often. Everything below is free to read and no account is required: the five courses in the Learning Center (The Neurodivergent Brain , The Neurodiverse Couple , The Autistic Woman , Parenting Autism and The Adult ADHD Course ) and the Worksheet Library . There is more about the organization on our About page . The Free Learning Center What is the New Path Learning Center? The Learning Center is the main thing this nonprofit does. It is a set of five self-paced programs, written in plain language, about how neurodivergent minds, bodies and relationships actually work: The Neurodivergent Brain (23 modules), The Neurodiverse Couple (24 modules), The Autistic Woman (22 modules), Parenting Autism (22 modules), and The Adult ADHD Course (16 modules). Each program is a complete guide with lessons, videos, screeners and workbooks. Start with whichever one fits your life, read the modules in whatever order makes sense to you, take what helps and skip what does not. Nothing is held back for a paid tier, because there is no paid tier. Is the Learning Center really free, and do I need an account? Yes it is free, and no account is required. There is no sign-up wall, no trial period, no upgrade, and no premium version. You do not have to give us an email address to read anything on this site, including the Worksheet Library . New Path Family is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Publishing this material at no cost is the charitable purpose of the organization. It is not a marketing step toward something you are eventually asked to buy. Which of the five programs should I start with? Start with the one that matches the question that brought you here. The Neurodivergent Brain covers the foundations: sensory processing, executive function, meltdowns, shutdowns and burnout. The Neurodiverse Couple is for relationships where one or both partners are neurodivergent. The Autistic Woman is for women who were missed, misdiagnosed or identified late. Parenting Autism is for people raising autistic and ADHD children, including parents who are wired the same way. The Adult ADHD Course is for adults who are diagnosed, newly identified, or still wondering. You can also search the Learning Center by topic rather than by title. The search reads subject matter, so plain phrases such as meltdowns, cannot start tasks, or my partner does not get it will find the right module. Who writes and reviews the material? The programs are written by clinicians and shaped by neurodivergent people with lived experience. Writers and reviewers are named on our Acknowledgments page . The writing is neurodiversity-affirming throughout. We use identity-first language, we do not use outdated terms such as Asperger's, and we treat neurological difference as difference rather than as deficit. Worksheets and Screeners What is in the Worksheet Library? The Worksheet Library holds more than 350 free worksheets, each one a single focused exercise rather than a workbook you have to complete in order. They cover regulation and meltdown planning, communication and repair, executive function, sensory needs, relationships, parenting, and self-understanding. The library is searchable, everything in it is free to read or print, and no account is required. May I use your worksheets with my own students, group or family? Yes, for non-commercial use. Teachers, group facilitators, support workers and parents are welcome to print anything in the Worksheet Library and use it in classrooms, groups and homes at no charge. Please leave the New Path Family attribution on the page. Please do not resell our material or present it as your own work. If you want to reproduce a large amount of it, translate it, or include it in something you are publishing, write to info@newpathfamily.com first and we will almost certainly say yes. Are the screeners on this site a diagnosis? No. Every screener and self-discovery tool published here is an educational instrument. None of them is a diagnostic instrument, no result from this website is a diagnosis, and this organization does not diagnose anyone. What a screener can do is help you decide whether a question is worth pursuing, and give you clearer language for a conversation with a qualified professional. That is the whole of its purpose. About This Organization Who is New Path Family? New Path Family is the public name of New Path Couples Therapy, Inc., a California nonprofit public benefit corporation recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. Our EIN is 87-0816107 and our California Registry of Charities number is CT0277447. Our mailing address is 3880 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 216, San Jose, CA 95124, and you can reach us at info@newpathfamily.com . There is more about the organization on our About page . What is the mission of the organization? To provide advocacy and mental health resources for the neurodivergent community. In practice that means publishing free, plain-language education for autistic and ADHD adults, for the people who love them, and for the professionals who work alongside them. Everything we publish is free to read, including the five courses in the Learning Center and the Worksheet Library . There is no sign-up and no fee. Does New Path Family provide therapy, assessment or coaching? No. This organization does not provide psychotherapy, psychological or autism assessment, diagnosis, medication management, coaching, or any other clinical service. Nothing on this website is an offer of clinical care, and we have no clinical staff, no clients and no waiting list. What you find here is educational material. It is not medical advice, it is not psychotherapy, and it is not a substitute for care from a qualified professional. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline), text HOME to 741741, or call 911. In the UK call Samaritans on 116 123, or 999 in an emergency. Does this website sell anything or carry advertising? No. Nothing on this site is for sale. There are no products, no paid services, no memberships, no advertising, and no affiliate arrangements of any kind. We do not sell, rent or trade visitor information, and we do not require an email address to read anything here. The purpose of the site is to publish free educational material and read it in place. There is no commercial transaction available on it. The Nonprofit and the Therapy Centers How is New Path Family related to New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc.? They are two separate organizations. New Path Family is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that publishes the Learning Center, the Worksheet Library and our advocacy writing. New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. is a separate California professional corporation that employs licensed clinicians and provides clinical services. The two share a founder and a philosophy of care. Neither organization owns the other, and neither pays the other. The nonprofit provides no clinical services and has no clinical staff, no clients and no waiting list. The therapy corporation has no control over what the nonprofit publishes. Do you receive anything when a reader becomes a therapy client? No. New Path Family receives no payment, commission, revenue share or referral fee of any kind when a reader contacts or becomes a client of New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc., or of any other provider. We name that organization here, and point you to the page that describes it, because being clear about the relationship is more honest than leaving it unsaid. Naming a related company is a disclosure, not a referral, and nobody pays us to make it. I want to talk to a therapist. Can you refer me? Not in the way that word usually means. This organization makes no clinical referrals, keeps no referral list, and does not screen or vet providers. We are paid nothing if you contact anyone, and we have no way of knowing whether you did. What we can do is tell you who we are connected to. New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. is a separate California professional corporation that shares a founder with this nonprofit and runs a group of virtual therapy centers. Our therapy centers page describes it and lists those centers. Naming a related company is a connection, not a referral, and where you go is entirely your choice. There are also good routes that have nothing to do with us, and they are worth using. Your physician can refer you, your health plan can list the providers it covers, and your state licensing board publishes a public register of every licensed clinician in your state. If you need help right now rather than an appointment, call or text 988 in the US, or Samaritans on 116 123 in the UK. Advocacy and Contact What advocacy work does the nonprofit do? Alongside the courses and worksheets we publish advocacy writing for autistic and ADHD adults and the people who love them: on late identification, masking and burnout, being believed, plain-language accommodation at work and at school, and the way neurodivergent people are described in clinical settings. The aim throughout is plain language for people who have been handed clinical language and left to translate it on their own. Can I suggest a topic, or write for the Learning Center? Yes to both. If there is a subject the Learning Center does not cover, or a worksheet you wish existed, write to info@newpathfamily.com . Requests from readers are a large part of how we decide what to publish next. If you are a clinician, a researcher, or a neurodivergent writer who would like to help build the material, use the same address. Writers and reviewers are credited on our Acknowledgments page . We also welcome corrections. If something we have published is out of date, inaccurate, or worded in a way that does not sit right with you, tell us and we will look at it. Questions, corrections, requests for a topic we have not covered, or an offer to write for the Learning Center all go to the same place: info@newpathfamily.com . Writers and reviewers are credited on our Acknowledgments page . 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Nineteen free modules, one autism screening questionnaire each: what it measures, where it came from, and what your score does and does not mean. Show the full course text Autistic Self-Discovery Nineteen free modules, each one built around a single validated self-discovery screener. You do not have to take them in order, and nothing here asks for an email address. Part One — Start Here Module 1 — How to Read an Autism Screener (and What a Score Can't Tell You) Before the eighteen questionnaires: what a screening score actually measures, the four validity tiers every instrument in this course is labelled with, and why a positive result is a reason to look closer rather than an answer. Open this module Part Two — The Broad Screeners Module 2 — RAADS-14 — A Short Autism Screener for Adults Where the fourteen questions came from, what the three groupings underneath them ask, why the famous 97 per cent sensitivity travels everywhere and the specificity never does, and what a score over the line honestly buys you. Open this module · Take the screener Module 3 — AQ-50 — The Best-Known Autistic Traits Questionnaire Where the fifty questions came from, what the two cut-off scores were built to do, why the five named subscales do not hold up under analysis, and what the AQ's real accuracy figures look like once it leaves the research sample. Open this module · Take the screener Module 4 — GQ-ASC — The Autism Questionnaire Written for Women Why the standard description of autism was drawn from boys, what the GQ-ASC asks instead, where it came from, and an honest account of how much weight a score of 57 can carry. Open this module · Take the screener Part Three — Masking and the Shape of Your Mind Module 5 — CAT-Q — Measuring Autistic Masking and Camouflaging What camouflaging actually is, why it keeps people from being recognised for decades, what the 25 questions can and cannot tell you, and how to read three subscale scores that matter more than the total. Open this module · Take the screener Module 6 — RBQ-2A — Repetitive Behaviour and Stimming, Explained Kindly What the twenty questions actually ask, why stimming is better understood as regulation than as a symptom, how insistence on sameness tracks uncertainty rather than stubbornness, and what this score honestly cannot tell you. Open this module · Take the screener Module 7 — The Monotropism Questionnaire — Autistic Attention and Deep Focus What monotropism claims about autistic attention, how a questionnaire written by autistic people came to exist, why its 47 items collapse into a single averaged score, and an honest account of how little of it has been independently tested. Open this module · Take the screener Module 8 — EDA-QA — Demand Avoidance and PDA Traits Why a task can be effortless when it is your idea and impossible when it is asked, what the twenty-six statements of the EDA-QA actually measure, and an honest account of a construct that sits in neither diagnostic manual. Open this module · Take the screener Part Four — Feeling, Naming, Connecting Module 9 — TAS-20 — Alexithymia, When You Can't Name What You Feel What alexithymia actually is, why the questionnaire's three parts are not equally trustworthy, why roughly half of autistic adults score above the line and half do not, and what a total score of 61 does and does not settle. Open this module · Take the screener Module 10 — OAQ-G2 — A Longer Look at Alexithymia A thirty-seven item questionnaire that asks about alexithymia across seven areas rather than three, what its four extra domains add and confuse, and why a tool with no published validation can still be worth an hour of your thinking. Open this module · Take the screener Module 11 — ASIM-24 — Sex, Intimacy and Sensory Reality A reverse-scored questionnaire about sexual knowledge, sensory comfort, boundaries and communication — what the research on autistic adults and intimacy actually shows, and why our own instrument has no validation behind it. Open this module · Take the screener Part Five — Burnout Module 12 — ABTI-24 — The Traits That Make Autistic Burnout Likely What makes autistic burnout likely rather than whether you are in it: masking, chronic strain, the physical toll, and whether rest is genuinely available — plus an honest account of a questionnaire we built ourselves and never validated. Open this module · Take the screener Module 13 — ABSI-24 — Autistic Burnout, Are You In It Right Now? What autistic burnout is as a present state rather than a standing risk, why it is so often treated as depression and why that gets the advice backwards, and an honest account of what this in-house questionnaire can and cannot tell you. Open this module · Take the screener Module 14 — ABO — Autistic Burnout in Eight Questions Why an eight-item burnout screener exists when a twenty-four item one already does, what the research on very short screens shows about the trade they make, and an honest account of what two minutes can and cannot tell you. Open this module · Take the screener Part Six — Traveling Companions Module 15 — Sensory Profile — Sensory Processing Across Eight Senses The three senses nobody taught you, why one sensitivity dial is the wrong model, how the same nervous system reads differently in different rooms, and an honest account of what a sensory score can and cannot tell you. Open this module · Take the screener Module 16 — HSPI-24 — High Sensitivity, or Autistic Sensory Difference? What sensory-processing sensitivity actually is, how far it overlaps with autistic difference and where the two part company, why the popular twenty per cent figure does not hold, and the one finding in this literature that is genuinely good news. Open this module · Take the screener Module 17 — OCI-R — OCD Symptoms: Checking, Ordering and Intrusive Thoughts What the eighteen questions of the OCI-R actually ask, how an autistic routine and an OCD compulsion can look identical from outside while running on opposite fuel, how often the two conditions travel together, and why this page draws its line at 12 rather than 21. Open this module · Take the screener Module 18 — CPQ — Clinical Perfectionism, When Your Standards Run You The difference between having high standards and being run by them, where the twelve-item Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire came from, how far its psychometrics can be trusted, and how the whole idea reads differently when the standard you are holding is appearing normal. Open this module · Take the screener Module 19 — FMPS — Six Faces of Perfectionism Why one word covers six different experiences, which two subscales actually carry the risk, why two rival scales share the same initials, and an honest account of what a perfectionism score can and cannot tell an autistic adult. Open this module · Take the screener How this course works Every module follows the same five steps: a lesson explaining what the instrument measures and where it came from, what actually helps, the screener itself, a workbook that saves to your own device, and the research behind it with full citations. Each module names its own limitations. Where an instrument is weak, the module says so. Nothing on this page is a diagnosis. Only a clinician can diagnose. A screening questionnaire widens the door to a conversation; it does not walk through it for you. If what you are looking for is not here Several of the traits covered here turn up alongside both profiles. Each one has a single module, filed in whichever course its population usually belongs to, and linked from both. If you are reading this course and something is missing, it is probably in the other one: the ADHD Self-Discovery course . Who made this New Path Family is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit learning centre. It publishes free, neurodiversity-affirming courses, worksheets and screener guides for autistic and ADHD adults and the people who love them. This course is free, self-paced, and asks for no email address. More about the nonprofit .

A free, self-paced course on autism in women and AFAB people — why so many are missed, masking, burnout, hormones, motherhood, and finally being believed. Show the full course text NEW PATH LEARNING CENTER · PROGRAM 03 FREE · SELF-PACED THE AUTISTIC WOMAN For the woman who always felt different — here is the language for why. A free, self-paced course about understanding your autistic mind — late discovery, masking, burnout, your sensory world, AuDHD, relationships, and building a life that actually fits. You were never broken. Start the Program → Browse all modules Talk to a clinician All 22 modules Free, no sign-up. Read in order, or jump straight to what you need today. Part One · Seeing Yourself 01 You Were Never Broken 02 Why Women Get Missed 03 Masking and Camouflaging 04 Autistic Burnout Part Two · How Your Brain Works 05 Your Sensory World 06 Monotropism and Deep Interests 07 Executive Function and the Mental Load 08 Big Feelings and Rejection Sensitivity 09 AuDHD: Two Engines, One Nervous System 10 Demand, Autonomy & the PDA Profile Part Three · Where It Shows Up 11 Friendship and Belonging 12 Communication and the Double Empathy Problem 13 Unmasking, Safely 14 Hormones Across the Lifespan 15 The Mental-Health Overlaps 16 Trauma, CPTSD & Grief 17 Food, Eating, and ARFID Part Four · Building a Life That Fits 18 Love and Intimacy 19 Autistic Motherhood 20 Work, Accommodations, and Advocacy 21 Being Believed 22 Your Operating Manual Built by a team that works with autistic women and girls every day. This course comes out of She Rocks the Spectrum and the wider New Path Family of Therapy Centers, where clinicians, advocates, and researchers sit with autistic women week after week. The Autistic Woman is the course we wished existed when our clients first came looking for answers — written by people who do this work, many of them autistic and AuDHD themselves. She Rocks the Spectrum New Path's home for autistic girls and women — where the worksheets and the GQ-ASC screener live, alongside resources made for how you're actually wired. Lived experience Autistic and AuDHD voices shape what we write — what masking, burnout, and being missed actually feel like, not just how they read in a textbook. Real research Every module is research-grounded — and names where the evidence on autistic women is still catching up. A 22-module course about understanding your own autistic mind — and finally having words for it. Each module covers one topic in depth — what is happening in your brain, what it looks and feels like, why it happens, and what actually helps. Who this is for: autistic women — diagnosed, self-identifying, or still wondering — including AuDHD women and those who discovered it in adulthood. Whether you have a diagnosis or just a quiet sense that this is you, you belong here. Trans and nonbinary people who recognise themselves here are welcome too. What happens inside a module. Every module follows the same six-step arc. About 20–30 minutes, start to finish. 1 Read the lesson The neuroscience and the human reality, in plain language. Roughly 8–12 minutes of reading. 2 See what helps The practical part, right after the lesson — concrete strategies that fit how your brain actually works, while the context is still fresh. 3 Watch the videos Hearing from real people — autistic women who explain the research in a way that makes sense, and share their own lived experience. 4 Take the screener — for self-discovery A short, validated questionnaire — about 5 minutes — now that you have the context. Bring your results into the workbook; it’s a mirror for self-discovery, not a diagnosis. 5 Do the workbook Short, specific prompts that turn the lesson into something you actually use to understand yourself. Your answers save to your browser — no sign-in. 6 Download your PDF — or talk to a clinician Export your workbook as a clean PDF to keep, share with a therapist, or bring to an assessment conversation. Start the course → All modules Ready to talk to someone? This course is built to stand on its own. But if reading it makes you want a conversation — about assessment, therapy, coaching, or just where to start — we are right here. Talk to our team →

Ten free modules, one adult ADHD screening questionnaire each: what it measures, where it came from, and what your score does and does not mean. Show the full course text ADHD Self-Discovery Ten free modules, each one built around a single adult ADHD self-discovery screener. You do not have to take them in order, and nothing here asks for an email address. Part One — Start Here Module 1 — How to Read an ADHD Screener (and What a Score Can't Tell You) Before the nine questionnaires: what a screening score actually measures, why sensitivity and specificity pull against each other, what happens to a good screener at real adult ADHD prevalence, and the four validity tiers every instrument here carries. Open this module Part Two — The Broad Screeners Module 2 — ASRS v1.1 — The WHO's Six-Question Adult ADHD Screener How the World Health Organization's adult screener works, why the threshold is different on different questions, what a positive result is genuinely worth, and why the negative result is the more trustworthy one. Open this module · Take the screener Module 3 — SAAST — A Longer, Structured Look at Adult ADHD What twenty-two questions reach that six cannot, why length is not the same thing as accuracy, the requirements a total score can never satisfy, and why four of the questions on this screener are deliberately not scored at all. Open this module · Take the screener Module 4 — Copeland — ADHD Symptoms Across Eight Areas of Life An instrument that produces no total score at all, only the percentage of symptoms endorsed in each of eight areas of living — why that answers a different question, why its language is dated, and what it has never been tested for. Open this module · Take the screener Part Three — How ADHD Actually Shows Up Module 5 — AAMM — ADHD Masking and Compensation Why camouflaging was mapped in autistic research first, what the ADHD evidence actually shows now that it exists, the seven kinds of effort this questionnaire names, and an honest account of an instrument nobody has validated. Open this module · Take the screener Module 6 — BIS-11 — Impulsiveness, Measured Three Ways What the thirty questions of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale actually ask, how six subscales fold into three families, why three of those six read backwards, where the cut-off of 72 came from, and what a high score does not tell you. Open this module · Take the screener Module 7 — ADHD-SIM-24 — Sex, Desire and Attention with ADHD How attention, emotional regulation and tolerance of delay shape intimate life with ADHD, what the evidence on desire, risk and medication actually shows, and why this particular screener runs backwards and has never been validated. Open this module · Take the screener Part Four — Traveling Companions Module 8 — RSD-24 — Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and How It Lands Why the phrase rejection sensitive dysphoria gave so many adults their first accurate description of something real, what the research actually supports underneath it, and what a questionnaire with no published validation can and cannot tell you. Open this module · Take the screener Module 9 — The Dyslexia Questionnaire — Dyslexia in Reading, Spelling and Speed What dyslexia actually is and is not, why it travels with ADHD so often, why adults who read accurately can still be dyslexic, and an honest account of what thirteen self-report questions can and cannot tell you. Open this module · Take the screener Module 10 — CAS — Clinical Anger You Can Actually Look At What the Clinical Anger Scale asks about, why its format and its cut-offs were borrowed from a depression inventory, how emotional dysregulation sits at the centre of adult ADHD, and the honest list of everything else that raises an anger score. Open this module · Take the screener How this course works Every module follows the same five steps: a lesson explaining what the instrument measures and where it came from, what actually helps, the screener itself, a workbook that saves to your own device, and the research behind it with full citations. Each module names its own limitations. Where an instrument is weak, the module says so. Nothing on this page is a diagnosis. Only a clinician can diagnose. A screening questionnaire widens the door to a conversation; it does not walk through it for you. If what you are looking for is not here Several of the traits covered here turn up alongside both profiles. Each one has a single module, filed in whichever course its population usually belongs to, and linked from both. If you are reading this course and something is missing, it is probably in the other one: the Autistic Self-Discovery course . Who made this New Path Family is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit learning centre. It publishes free, neurodiversity-affirming courses, worksheets and screener guides for autistic and ADHD adults and the people who love them. This course is free, self-paced, and asks for no email address. More about the nonprofit .

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New Path Family is a nonprofit and doesn't provide therapy. Assessments, couples work and coaching come from our sister organization's six virtual centers: adult autism assessment, neurodiverse couples counseling, therapy for autistic women and men, parent coaching, and partner support. Show the full page text New Path Therapy Centers New Path Family is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We publish free courses and worksheets — we do not provide therapy. Therapy, coaching, and autism and ADHD assessments come from our sister organization, New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc., a separate company. These are its six virtual centers, built for how your brain actually works. The six centers Adult Autism Assessment Center For adults seeking answers. Formal autism assessment for adults, fully by telehealth. Neurodiversity-affirming clinicians, plain-language reports, and a process designed not to be an interrogation. Visit Adult Autism Assessment Center . Learn first: Self-Identification & Assessment , free in our Learning Center. Neurodiverse Couples Counseling Center For couples. Couples therapy where neurodivergence is treated as a difference to work with, not a defect to fix — communication, repair, intimacy, and the patterns that finally make sense. Visit Neurodiverse Couples Counseling Center . Learn first: Neurodiverse Relationships , free in our Learning Center. She Rocks the Spectrum For autistic women. A therapy center built around the female presentation — masking, late diagnosis, hormones, identity — with a worksheet library and screeners made for women. Visit She Rocks the Spectrum . Learn first: Women, Hormones & Neurodivergence , free in our Learning Center. Therapy 4 Autistic Men For autistic men. Individual therapy built around how autistic men actually experience the world — direct, concrete, and free of the social-performance expectations that make therapy exhausting. Visit Therapy 4 Autistic Men . Learn first: Identity & Late Diagnosis , free in our Learning Center. Parenting Autism Therapy Center For parents of neurodivergent kids. Coaching and support for the parents in the room — co-regulation, school battles, sibling dynamics, and your own bandwidth. And if you’re neurodivergent yourself, parenting while ND isn’t a footnote here — it’s half of what we do. Visit Parenting Autism Therapy Center . Learn first: The Neurodivergent Brain , free in our Learning Center. Believing Cassandra For partners & supporters. For the partners, parents, and supporters of neurodivergent adults — the people whose experience often goes unseen. Understanding, validation, and practical tools. Visit Believing Cassandra . Learn first: For Supporters , free in our Learning Center. Not sure which center fits? Their client care team can help. Tell them a little about what’s going on, and they’ll point you to the right place — person to person, no pressure. Talk to the therapy team . Also operated by New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. New Path Couples Therapy Couples therapy for every kind of relationship — communication, conflict, and reconnection. Visit New Path Couples Therapy . Christian Couples Counseling Center Faith-centered couples counseling that honors your shared values and beliefs. Visit Christian Couples Counseling Center . Blended Family Counseling Center Support for stepfamilies and blended households — new roles, loyalties, and routines. Visit Blended Family Counseling Center . New Path Sex Addiction Therapy Compassionate, judgment-free help for sex and pornography addiction and betrayal recovery. Visit New Path Sex Addiction Therapy . How the two organizations relate New Path Family is the public name of New Path Couples Therapy, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 87-0816107. New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. is a separate California professional corporation. The two share a founder and a philosophy of care. The nonprofit does not provide clinical services and receives no payment for referrals. The nonprofit publishes the free Learning Center: five self-paced courses, a worksheet library, and advocacy writing for autistic and ADHD adults and the people who love them. Everything it publishes is free to read, with no account required. Read more about how the two organizations work together . If you are in crisis If you’re struggling or in crisis, you deserve support right now: call or text 988 (US) any time, or in the UK call Samaritans on 116 123. If you may be in danger, call 911 (US) or 999 (UK).

How New Path Family handles your information, and the terms for using our free courses, worksheets and resources. Plain language, no legal maze. Show the full page text Privacy Policy and Terms of Use This page covers both. It applies to newpathfamily.com, which is operated by New Path Couples Therapy, Inc. Last updated September 26, 2026 Privacy Policy Who we are This website is operated by New Path Couples Therapy, Inc., publicly known as New Path Family — a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. EIN 87-0816107. 3880 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 216, San Jose, CA 95124 · info@newpathfamily.com We are a publisher of free educational material. We do not provide therapy, we do not employ clinicians, and we do not keep medical records. What we collect We collect very little, and only what we need. If you subscribe to our newsletter: your email address, and your name if you give it. If you use our contact form : everything you enter. 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Browse 359 free, printable neurodiversity-affirming worksheets across 16 topics. No account, no cost, no sign-up. Published by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Show the full page text Worksheet Library 359 worksheets you can read, print or fill in, free, with no account and no sign-up. The Worksheet Library is published by New Path Family, the public name of New Path Couples Therapy, Inc., a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 87-0816107. Everything here is free because publishing it is what the charity is for. The library sits alongside the five free programs in the Learning Center: The Neurodivergent Brain , The Neurodiverse Couple , The Autistic Woman , Parenting Autism and The Adult ADHD Course . There is more about the organization on our About page , and answers to the questions we are asked most often on our FAQ page . How the library works The worksheets are grouped into 16 categories, and most categories are split again into smaller topics. Open a category to see everything in it, or type into the search box at the top of the page - the search reads titles, descriptions and keywords, so plain phrases such as meltdown, boundaries or cannot start tasks will find the right page. Every worksheet opens on its own page. You can work through it on screen or print it. Nothing is held back for a paid tier, because there is no paid tier, and you do not have to give us an email address to read any of it. Browse by category Counts are of published worksheets. A few examples are linked under each heading; open the category on the page itself to see the rest. Addiction 11 worksheets. Understanding the cycle, in-the-moment tools for a craving, building new patterns, behavioural addictions, and pages written for the people who love someone in it. Topics in this category: Behavioral Addictions, Building New Patterns, For Loved Ones, In-the-Moment Tools, Understanding the Cycle. Examples: For the People Who Love Me , My Reasons (For When I Forget Them) , Riding the Craving , Swapping the Hit , The Dopamine Loop . Affair & Betrayal 19 worksheets. The first days after discovery, honest disclosure, rebuilding trust and touch, and separate pages for the betrayed partner and for the partner who strayed. Topics in this category: After Discovery, Disclosure & Honesty, For the Betrayed Partner, For the Partner Who Strayed, Forgiveness & Renewal, Rebuilding Intimacy, Rebuilding Trust, Secrecy & Disclosure, Understanding the Betrayal. Examples: After the Bomb Drops , Atone, Attune, Attach , Finding Our Way Back to Touch , Forgiving Myself (For the Betrayed Partner) , Forgiving Myself (For the Partner Who Strayed) . Cassandra Syndrome 9 worksheets. For partners who have spent years being told the problem is them: naming what you feel, asking for what you need so it lands, and learning to believe yourself again. Topics in this category: Communication Styles, Identifying Emotions, Understanding & Self-Support. Examples: Grieving the Relationship You Pictured , Learning to Believe Yourself Again , Naming What You Feel , Naming What You Need (So It Can Actually Land) , Refilling Your Own Cup . Cognitive Reframing 17 worksheets. Practical CBT-style work with thoughts - catching the thought, testing it, sorting a distortion from a real signal, and writing coping cards you will actually reread. Topics in this category: Working With Thoughts. Examples: Behavioral Experiment , Black-and-White to Gray , Catching the Thought , Coping Cards , Distortion or Real Signal? . Couples 44 worksheets. The largest section. Communication scripts, conflict and repair, closeness and connection, understanding how each of you is wired, and designing the relationship on purpose. Topics in this category: Closeness & Connection, Communication & Scripts, Conflict & Repair, Understanding Each Other, Your Relationship, by Design. Examples: 52 Date-Night Conversation Starters , A United Front With Family , A Year of Questions , Appreciation Practice , Bridging Parallel Play . Daily Life & Logistics 32 worksheets. Executive function and energy, routines and transitions, sleep, showering, chores in dopamine-sized pieces, sharing the household load, and self-advocacy. Topics in this category: Daily Living Skills, Energy & Executive Function, Routines & Transitions, Self-Advocacy, Shared Responsibilities, Sleep. Examples: A Shower Plan That Works for Me , Anchors for the Day , Asking for What Helps , Building My External Clock , Chores in Dopamine-Sized Pieces . Dating & New Connection 13 worksheets. Early relationships and relationship health: whether to disclose that you are autistic, planning a date that will not wreck you, and working out whether this is going somewhere. Topics in this category: Early Relationships, Relationship Health. Examples: Am I Ready for the Next Step? , Do I Tell Them I'm Autistic? , How to Be a Partner , Is This Going Somewhere? , Planning a Date That Won't Wreck You . Diagnosis & Self-Identification 6 worksheets. Exploring whether you might be autistic, telling autism apart from things that overlap with it, deciding whether to pursue a formal assessment, and what self-identification can and cannot do. Topics in this category: Deciding About Assessment, During & After, Exploring & Understanding. Examples: After You Self-Identify: Now What? , Exploring Whether You Might Be Autistic , Is It Autism, or Something Else? Understanding Overlap , Should I Pursue a Formal Assessment? A Decision Aid , What Self-Identification Can and Can't Do . Healing After Betrayal 31 worksheets. A longer arc for the betrayed partner - shock and survival, receiving the truth, rage, boundaries, rebuilding a self, and the impact letter. Topics in this category: Integration & Empowerment, Rage & Reclamation, Realization & Rebuilding Self, Receiving the Truth, Shock & Survival, Your Impact Letter. Examples: Anger Without Destruction , Boundaries That Keep You Safe , Boundaries vs. Control , Decisions You Don't Have to Make Yet , Is This Change Real? . Identity & Self-Acceptance 24 worksheets. Masking and unmasking, special interests, values and meaning, connection and belonging, and mapping your own traits without a stereotype in the way. Topics in this category: Connection & Belonging, Masking & Unmasking, Self-Discovery, Self-Discovery & Profiling, Special Interests & Self-Knowledge, Values & Meaning. Examples: Annual Reflection Exercise , Autism Stereotypes , Autism Trait Wheel , Competing Sensory Needs , Friendship Inventory . Men's Worksheets 15 worksheets. Written for autistic and ADHD men: masculinity and emotion, fatherhood, friendship, masking, and the idea that asking for help is not weakness. Topics in this category: Connection, Fatherhood, Masculinity & Emotion, Masking & Unmasking, Pressure & Support, Self-Discovery. Examples: Asking for Help Isn't Weakness , Autistic & a Dad , Crying Isn't Failing , Fewer, Deeper , Finding My People (As a Man) . Parenting & Caregiving 20 worksheets. Co-regulation, in-the-moment regulation, repair after you lose it, routines and transitions, caregiver burnout, and advocating in the room with doctors and teachers. Topics in this category: In-the-Moment Regulation, Parent-Child Dynamics, Routines & Transitions, Self-Advocacy, Understanding & Recovery. Examples: After I Lose It: The Repair Plan , Caregiver Burnout Check , Co-Regulation Basics , Every Kid in the House , In the Room: Doctors & Teachers . Regulation & Coping 22 worksheets. Sensory needs, early warning signs, grounding in the moment, autistic burnout, demand and autonomy, and trauma and grief. Topics in this category: Demand & Autonomy, Early Warning & Coping, In-the-Moment Regulation, Sensory, Trauma & Grief, Understanding & Recovery. Examples: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 , Affirmation Cards: Trauma Recovery , Autistic Burnout , Build Your Sensory Toolkit , Building Emotional Intelligence . Sex & Intimacy 23 worksheets. Desire and arousal, brakes and accelerators, body and function, beliefs and boundaries, scheduling and initiation, and aftercare and repair. Topics in this category: Aftercare & Repair, Beliefs & Boundaries, Body & Function, Desire & Arousal, Scheduling & Initiation. Examples: Aftercare Plan , Body Image During Sex , Brakes & Accelerators , Desire Imbalance Map , Erection Confidence . Sex Addiction 47 worksheets. A full recovery workbook: honest self-assessment, breaking the cycle, uncovering root causes, full disclosure, building lasting change, neurodivergent lenses on all of it, and pages for partners. Topics in this category: Break the Cycle, Breaking the Cycle, Build Lasting Change, For Partners, Full Disclosure, Moving Forward, Neurodivergent Lenses, Uncover the Root Causes, Understanding & Self-Assessment. Examples: A Balanced Life , Abort the Launch , Am I a Sex Addict? An Honest Self-Look , Building My Outer Circle , Building Your Recovery Foundation . Women's Worksheets 26 worksheets. Written for autistic and ADHD women and girls: late identification, masking and boundaries, health and hormones, motherhood, work and career, safety and self-trust, and being believed. Topics in this category: Connection, Health & Hormones, Masking & Boundaries, Motherhood, Safety & Self-Trust, Self-Discovery, Work & Career. Examples: A Career That Fits How I'm Wired , Autistic & a Mother , Being Believed , Finding My People , Late, Not Wrong . More from the free Learning Center The five self-paced programs are The Neurodivergent Brain (23 modules), The Neurodiverse Couple (24 modules), The Autistic Woman (22 modules), Parenting Autism (22 modules) and The Adult ADHD Course (16 modules). All of them are free to read in full. The same material is also gathered on our Content Library page , which is the single index of everything the charity publishes, and there is a feedback form if you want to tell us what is missing or what did not work. The people who wrote and reviewed this material are named on our Acknowledgments page . Our privacy policy and terms of use explains how we handle the little information we collect. This organization does not provide therapy. 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