Toolkit
22 guided tools, plus 10 quick tools, to help with planning, communication, sensory needs, reading, writing, numbers, speech, tics, OCD and synesthesia.
How these tools work
- They stay on your device. What you type or save is kept in your browser. Neuro-Common does not receive it, and there are no accounts. Back up, restore or delete your saved data.
- They are ordinary tools, not magic. Each one uses plain rules, templates and math that run on your device. Where a result is an estimate, the tool says so.
- You do not need a diagnosis. Tools are listed under a condition when people with that condition often find them useful. Use any tool that helps you.
- They support, they do not treat. They are not medical, legal or diagnostic advice. Crisis help is here if you need it now.
Find a tool
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Plan, focus and get started
Make time, tasks and routines easier to see and easier to begin.
Visual timer and focus cycles
A shrinking colored dial shows time passing. Use one timer, or repeating focus and break rounds.
Leave-on-time planner
Tell it when you need to be there. It works backward to show when to leave and when to start getting ready.
Brain dump and sort
Get everything out of your head, sort it one item at a time, and let the tool pick one thing from Today when choosing feels impossible.
Get started: one small step
Name the task, shrink the first step until it feels easy, then do just that step with a timer.
Routine builder and picture chart
Build a routine with pictures or your own photos, tick it off each day, and print it as a large picture chart for a wall or fridge.
Study and deadline planner
Turn due dates and the time each task needs into short sessions on the days you are free. See what to do today, and save a calendar file.
Communicate and speak up
Say what you need, in your own way, and prepare for the conversations that matter.
Picture and word communication board
Tap pictures and words to build a message, show it in large type, and say it out loud. Make your own tiles with words and photos.
Conversation script builder and practice
Build a script for a call, an order, a hard conversation or telling someone what helps. Practice it line by line and keep the ones you use.
Letter to ask for accommodations or adjustments
Choose the changes that would help you at work, school or college, and get a clear letter or email you can edit, copy, download or print.
Reading and writing
Make text easier to take in, and writing easier to produce.
Reading studio: make any text easier to read
Paste or open any text and tune the font, size, spacing and colors. Read a paragraph or a sentence at a time, use a reading ruler, listen, or print it.
Word helper: mixed-up words, tricky words and word parts
Look up words that are easy to mix up, keep a list of your own tricky words to practice, and cut a word into parts you choose. No scores.
Dictation pad: speak, then edit
Speak and have your words typed, where your browser supports it. Then edit, listen back, copy, download or print. Also shows other ways to dictate.
Writing planner: from ideas to a first draft
Answer plain questions, put your notes in order, add linking words and get a first draft made from your own words. It asks and arranges. It does not write for you.
Printable paper: lines, grids and number columns
Make and print handwriting lines, ruled paper, graph paper, big squares or number columns at the spacing you choose, on US Letter or A4 paper.
Speech and fluency
Practice speaking in your own way, at your own pace.
Speaking steps: plan and practice situations, one step at a time
Keep your own list of speaking situations in the order you choose, write down what happened when you tried them, and print it for a speech-language pathologist.
Pacing metronome: speak in time with a steady beat
A steady, adjustable beat, with your own words lit one unit at a time. For people who choose to practice speaking in time with a beat. It never suggests a speed.
Tics and OCD
Private logs and worksheets you can use alongside your clinician or therapist.
Exposure ladder worksheet (for use with a therapist)
Keep your own ranked list of hard situations, rate each from 0 to 100, and record practice you and a therapist agreed on. Private, with a hide-on-screen switch.
OCD notebook: episodes, time, and delay timer
A private OCD notebook. Write down what happened, see weekly totals of what you wrote, use a plain delay timer, and print or copy it for a therapist.
Tic notes: log tics and see how they change
A private tic notebook. Do a quick daily check-in, add notes about tics if you want to, see what you wrote week by week, and print or copy it for a clinician.
Synesthesia
Map, explore and use your own experience.
My synesthesia map: record your own associations
Record the colors you see for letters, numbers, days and months. Add other experiences in your own words. Print or save your map. It is not a test.
Colorizer: see any text in your own colors
Type or paste any text and see it in the colors from your own synesthesia map, or in example colors. Save it as a picture or a web page, copy it or print it.
Color consistency check
Choose a color for each letter, number, day or month three times, then see how far apart your own colors were. Plain numbers, no verdict. Pause and finish later.
Quick tools on this page
Small tools that work right here. Anything you type is saved only on this device.
Focus timer
25:00
Breathing pacer
Box breathing: 4 seconds in, hold, out, hold.
Communication cards
Tap a card to show it in large text and copy it. Handy when words are hard to find.
Task breaker
Write each small step, then tick them off. Saved on this device.
Energy budget
Pace your day with units of energy, an idea inspired by spoon theory (Christine Miserandino, 2003). Tap a unit to spend it; tap a spent one to restore it.
Sensory check-in
General ideas only. You know your body best.
Sound machine
Steady sound masks noise for some people; results vary. Keep the volume comfortable.
Fidget pad
Tap the bubbles. Stimming is valid.
My calm plan
Fill this in while you feel well. It stays on this device only.
Visual schedule builder
Build a picture schedule for a day or routine. Visual supports are an evidence-based practice for many autistic children and young adults (Wong et al., 2015), and many people with ADHD and other differences find them useful too. Saved on this device.
General support only. These tools are not medical, legal or diagnostic advice.