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Reference tools for educators. Information/understanding only — none of these guides are assessment or diagnostic instruments.

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Anxiety & OCD

Anxiety Disorders

GAD, social/separation anxiety, panic, phobias, school avoidance and differentials.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsession/compulsion patterns, practical support, treatment-aware responses and referral.

Attachment & Trauma

Attachment Styles & Disorders

Attachment patterns, RAD/DSED, differentials, assessment and treatment principles.

Developmental Trauma, PTSD, Complex PTSD & Dissociation

Trauma presentations, dissociation, differential diagnosis and school response.

Language & Communication

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)

Receptive/expressive language, vocabulary, grammar, narrative and pragmatic language difficulties.

Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder

Pragmatic language difficulties and how they can be misread as behaviour.

Mood & Behaviour

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)

Chronic irritability and temper outbursts — diagnostic criteria, differentials and school response.

ODD & Conduct Disorder

Symptom clusters, behaviour domains, differentials and intervention evidence.

Neurodevelopmental & Cognitive

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive and combined presentations, executive function and classroom adjustments.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Social communication, sensory processing, regulation, masking and practical classroom adjustments.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

The 9 neurodevelopmental domains, comorbidities, assessment and support strategies.

Intellectual Disability, BIF & Adaptive Functioning

Conceptual, social and practical adaptive domains, assessment and strategy.

Sensory Processing & Sensory Modulation

Auditory, visual, tactile, vestibular and interoceptive processing, and modulation patterns.

PDA / Demand Avoidance

PDA / Extreme Demand Avoidance

Forms of avoidance, mechanisms, differential diagnosis and de-escalation strategy.

Psychosis & Thought Disorders

Psychosis, Emerging Psychosis & First-Episode Psychosis

Symptom domains, differentials, classroom response, documentation and escalation.