Description
A plain-language guide for caregivers raising neurodivergent children who deserve more than confusing advice, outdated assumptions, and one-size-fits-all support.
Navigating Neurodivergence helps families understand autism, ADHD, anxiety, sensory overwhelm, executive functioning differences, masking, meltdowns, shutdowns, demand sensitivity, school struggles, and the nervous system patterns underneath behavior.
This guide was created for the caregiver who keeps wondering:
Why does my child fall apart after school?
Is this anxiety, sensory overload, ADHD, autism, trauma, or all of it tangled together?
Why do behavior charts, rewards, consequences, and “try harder” advice keep failing?
What is my child actually communicating through behavior?
How do I support them without losing myself in the process?
Written by Liz Vossenkemper, a developmental-behavioral pediatric nurse practitioner and pediatric mental health specialist, this guide blends clinical clarity, lived neurodivergent experience, and practical real-world support for families who are tired of being handed jargon instead of a map.
Inside, you’ll find compassionate explanations of how neurodivergent nervous systems work, why behavior is often communication, how sensory and emotional overload show up in daily life, and how caregivers can begin building supports that match the child in front of them.
This is not a guide about fixing children. It is a guide about understanding them.
You’ll learn about autism, ADHD, anxiety, overlapping neurodivergent profiles, sensory processing, nervous system regulation, meltdowns, shutdowns, burnout, masking, executive functioning, demand sensitivity, school struggles, IEP and 504 advocacy, behavior as communication, caregiver burnout, co-regulation, and strengths-based support.
This guide is for parents, caregivers, educators, clinicians, and anyone who wants to better understand neurodivergent children without fear-based language, deficit-only thinking, or advice that collapses the second real life enters the room.
Because neurodivergent children are not broken or deficient. They are complex, whole, wired in real ways, and deserving of support that honors their nervous system, their autonomy, their strengths, and their humanity.
And caregivers deserve support too.
This guide offers clarity for the chaos, language for what you’ve been sensing, and a steadier way forward.
Educational use only. This guide is not medical, legal, diagnostic, or individualized treatment advice. Please consult appropriate professionals for concerns specific to your child or family.
ASIN: B0H6899KS9
VSKU: BVV.B0H6899KS9.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Vossenkemper ARNP, Liz
Binding: Paperback
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use
ASIN: B0H6899KS9
VSKU: BVV.B0H6899KS9.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Vossenkemper ARNP, Liz
Binding: Paperback
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use