Autism and ADHD Program offerings for parents and children

Brain Beacon offers a number of different programs that are structured around neuroaffirming practices that are unique to you and your child. Support around executive function, social development and school. We meet you where you're at with your child and develop strategies that work.

Being a parent can be a struggle, especially with a loved one that has ADHD or Autism. From managing families, to relationships, it can be especially hard. Using 30+ years of lived experience and professional training, we support you through your journey.

Some of the topics covered:

• ADHD and Autism support strategies

• Anxiety support

• Parent or caregiver support and coaching

• Couple ADHD coaching and support where one or both partners have ADHD.

This program is suited for couples struggling to manage the effects of ADHD on their relationship and are looking for solutions. Learn from first hand experience and get practical solutions that help you and your partner.

Parent Support Coaching

For those that have completed one of our programs, these weekly sessions are aimed at keeping accountability, practicing skills learned and developing weekly strategies that stick. Each week, we help your child leave with a clear plan and the momentum to follow through. Use them to practice skills, from executive function to social confidence and close the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. Plus access to our resource library, templates, tools, and guides to support your practice between sessions.

Our clients find this as an excellent way to maintain their progress and benefit from access to additional resources.

Weekly check-in and coaching

In this 4 week program, we take your child through an Executive Function assessment that enables you to identify both your strengths and weaknesses, allowing you to work with your strengths and master your weaknesses. This comprehensive course will provide you with the tools to succeed as we take you through strategies and tools to master your Executive Functioning.

4 Week Executive Functioning Mastery

• Executive Function Assessment

• Executive Functioning feedback and coaching

• Skill building with tools and strategies

• 4 weeks of 1:1 focused coaching

Clients have benefited from mastering their executive function, be it core memory, impulse control or task initiation by utilizing their executive function strengths to help them going forward.

ADHD Executive Function Assessment for kids

PEERS is a world renowned 14 week social program for Teens (13 - 18) with Autism and ADHD. Scientifically backed, this program not only teaches you how to make friends, but keep them too. Through this 14 week program (offered in person and online), your teen will learn how to:

• Use appropriate conversational skills

• Choose appropriate friends

• Appropriately use electronic forms of communication

• Appropriately use humor and assess humor feedback

• Start, enter, and exit conversations between peers

• Organize successful get-togethers with friends

• Handle arguments and disagreements with friends and in relationships

• Handle rejection, teasing, bullying, and rumors/gossip

This fun, warm and engaging program is designed to take your teen through the different social elements step by step . With weekly in group socializing, practical roleplay and training, this course sets your teen up for success.

Online currently with parent / caregiver participation at the end of every session

PEERS is internationally recognized and has shown remarkable results, especially seeing the difference from Week 1 and Week 14. PEERS participants have often gone on to become friends with those who attended with them.

Funding is available

PEERS 16 week Social Program for teens

Neuroaffirming Autism and ADHD programs, Behavioural development support, Social skills, and executive functioning skills online in Calgary, AB.