Study Skills for Neurodivergent Students

Here you will find a list of all of the software we have recommended throughout this guide:

• Balabolka: Text-to-speech tool that can read from several document formats and export to many audio formats.
• Breakaway Audio Enhancer: Reduce background noise and adjust audio frequency for auditory sensitivity.
• Coggle: Create interactive mind maps with images, links, and notes to represent lecture content or research findings.
• EndNote: Powerful reference management software with advanced features like group collaboration and document formatting, but requires a paid subscription.
• GitHub Student Pack: Free access to developer tools and resources, including collaboration features and private repositories.
• Glean: Combines audio recording with note-taking, transcribing audio in real-time and allowing you to highlight key points and add notes.
• Grammarly: Grammar checker and writing assistant that suggests improvements for clarity, style, and grammar.
• Immersive Reader: Built-in tool in Microsoft Edge and OneNote, providing dyslexia-friendly reading features and focus options, supporting structured learning for neurodivergent individuals.
• Jamovi: User-friendly statistical software with a beginner-friendly interface.
• Mendeley: Free reference management software with automatic bibliography generation, note-taking capabilities, and social networking features for collaboration.
• Meshmixer: Open-source 3D modeling software with tools for editing, repair, and optimisation.
• Microsoft Teams: Versatile platform for group projects, online meetings, and document sharing.
• OneNote: Built-in note-taking app with flexible organisation, audio recording, and collaboration features, allowing for structured note-taking and project management.
• Onshape: Free cloud-based CAD software for 3D modeling and design, useful for engineering and science projects.
• ProWritingAid: Comprehensive writing feedback tool with grammar checks, style suggestions, and plagiarism detection.
• Python: Powerful programming language commonly used in academic research and data analysis.
• R: Powerful programming language commonly used in academic research and data analysis.
• Read&Write: Integrates with various platforms, offering text-to-speech, grammar checking, and dyslexia-friendly fonts, improving reading comprehension and promoting structured note-taking.
• Scrivener: Writing software with outlining tools, note-taking capabilities, and distraction-free modes.
• Slack: Popular platform used by many student organisations and projects for communication and collaboration.
• XMind: Feature-rich mind mapping software with various themes and customisation options.
• Zotero: Open-source reference manager with browser plugins for easy reference collection, note-taking tools, and various output styles.

Here you will find all of the websites we have recommended throughout this guide.

• Audible: Enjoy professionally narrated audiobooks.
• BBC Earth: Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and learn about diverse ecosystems and environmental challenges.
• Brainscape: Adaptive flashcard system that adjusts difficulty based on your performance, incorporating spaced repetition for optimal memorisation.
• Brilliant: Interactive platform with bite-sized challenges and explanations relevant to university-level math and science.
• Bubblus: Free online mind mapping tool for quick visualisation and sharing of ideas.
• Cite Them Right - Comprehensive guidance for multiple citation styles, including official UoD Harvard style
• Codecademy: Learn coding languages through interactive projects.
• Coggle: Create interactive mind maps with images, links, and notes to represent lecture content or research findings.
• Crash Course: Educational YouTube channel with engaging and entertaining videos that explain complex topics in a concise and accessible way.
• Discord: Free voice, video, and text communication platform, allows users to create servers (communities) with multiple channels for different topics or groups
• Elevate Brain Training: Games designed to improve cognitive skills, including spatial reasoning and kinesthetic learning.
• Etymology Online: Explore word origins and enrich understanding.
• GitHub Student Pack: Free access to developer tools and resources, including collaboration features and private repositories.
• Google Earth VR: Explore the world and historical sites in 3D, enhancing geographical understanding.
• Hemingway Editor: Highlights long sentences, complex words, and passive voice, encouraging concise and impactful writing.
• Kaggle: Platform for data science competitions and learning, offering datasets and tutorials.
• Lucidchart: Flowcharts and diagrams to visualise relationships between concepts and processes.
• Milanote: Digital corkboard for organising ideas, notes, and to-dos with visual appeal, helping to clarify priorities and connections.
• Mindmeister: Online mind mapping tool for visually organising notes, brainstorming ideas, and connecting key points.
• Miro: Collaborative mind mapping tool with diverse layouts and features, perfect for visually planning projects, outlining tasks, and organising research findings.
• My Study Life: Organise classes, schedules, and assignments, set reminders, and track progress towards goals, providing structure and reducing feeling overwhelmed.
• National Geographic: Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and learn about diverse ecosystems and environmental challenges.
• NaturalReader: Text-to-speech tool for reading documents aloud, helpful for auditory learners or those with reading difficulties.
• Otter.ai: Real-time transcription tool for capturing lectures, meetings, or interviews and organising them with timestamps and speaker identification.
• PhET Interactive Simulations: Interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations.
• Project Euler: Online platform with challenging maths problems ranging from easy to expert level.
• Quizlet: Create flashcards, quizzes, and study sets with various learning modes (matching, fill-in-the-blank, etc.).
• SciStarter: Discover citizen science projects across various disciplines, from astronomy to ecology.
• Tableau Public: Free data visualisation tool for creating interactive dashboards and report
• Talkspace: Online therapy platform offering affordable and confidential counselling support.
• TED Talks: Listen to engaging presentations and practice summarising key points.
• Tinkercad: Beginner-friendly platform for creating simple 3D models and learning basic design principles.
• Trello: Visualise tasks and manage workflow with boards, lists, and cards, ideal for breaking down large projects into smaller, manageable steps.
• Tynker: Learn to code through interactive games and creative projects.
• Udacity Nanodegrees: Specialised online courses with industry-relevant projects in data science, web development, and other high-demand fields.
• Wolfram Alpha: Computational knowledge engine that can solve and explain complex mathematical problems.
• Zygote Body: 3D models of the human body for medical and biology students.

Here you will find all of the video and audio tools we have recommended throughout this guide.

• Audible: Enjoy professionally narrated audiobooks.
• BBC Earth: Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and learn about diverse ecosystems and environmental challenges.
• Crash Course: Educational YouTube channel with engaging and entertaining videos that explain complex topics in a concise and accessible way.
• "Dirtcast" Podcast: For fascinating, in-depth discussions about diverse natural phenomena.
• Endel: App offering soundtracks optimised for concentration and relaxation.
• Focus@Will: App offering soundtracks optimised for concentration and relaxation.
• Google Earth VR: Explore the world and historical sites in 3D, enhancing geographical understanding.
• National Geographic: Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and learn about diverse ecosystems and environmental challenges.
• Nature Soundscapes: Apps or websites with calming nature sounds like rain, waves, or forest sounds can create a peaceful environment.
• Noisli: App offering soundtracks optimised for concentration and relaxation.
• "Ologies" Podcast: For fascinating, in-depth discussions about diverse natural phenomena.
• Serene: Customisable focus app with ambient sounds, white noise, and nature sounds to aid concentration.
• Soundtrap: Compose music or soundscapes as a study outlet and creative expression.
• TED Talks: Listen to engaging presentations and practice summarising key points.

Here you will find all the various hardware and physical tools we have recommended throughout this guide.

• Stand Desk Converter: Allows you to stand while working, promoting movement and potentially improving focus.
• Fidget Toys: Tactile fidget tools can help manage restlessness and improve focus for some individuals.
• Noise-Cancelling Headphones: Block out distracting sounds and create a calmer work environment.
• Livescribe Echo Pen: Records lectures while you take handwritten notes, allowing you to revisit audio later and link it to specific notes.

• AllTrails: Find hiking trails, plan outdoor adventures, and track your progress in nature.
• Anatomy 3D Atlas: 3D models of the human body for medical and biology students.
• Anki: Flashcard app with spaced repetition algorithms, ideal for memorising key facts, formulas, and vocabulary.
• Audible: Enjoy professionally narrated audiobooks.
• Balabolka: Text-to-speech tool that can read from several document formats and export to many audio formats.
• BandLab: Compose music or soundscapes as a study outlet and creative expression.
• BBC Earth: Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and learn about diverse ecosystems and environmental challenges.
• Bear: User-friendly note-taking app with tags, Markdown support, and focus mode for distraction-free writing, enhancing organisation and clarity.
• BirdNET: Identify bird calls and other animal sounds using your phone's microphone.
• Brain.fm: Personalised music designed to enhance cognitive function.
• Brainscape: Adaptive flashcard system that adjusts difficulty based on your performance, incorporating spaced repetition for optimal memorisation.
• Breakaway Audio Enhancer: Reduce background noise and adjust audio frequency for auditory sensitivity.
• Brilliant: Interactive platform with bite-sized challenges and explanations relevant to university-level math and science.
• Bubblus: Free online mind mapping tool for quick visualisation and sharing of ideas.
• Calm: Offers guided meditations, sleep stories, and breathing exercises to manage stress and anxiety, allowing for a more structured and focused mental state.
• Cite Them Right - Comprehensive guidance for multiple citation styles, including official UoD Harvard style
• Codecademy: Learn coding languages through interactive projects.
• Coggle: Create interactive mind maps with images, links, and notes to represent lecture content or research findings.
• Cold Turkey Blocker: Powerful website and app blocker with scheduling options, perfect for blocking specific distractions at set times for increased focus and structure.
• Crash Course: Educational YouTube channel with engaging and entertaining videos that explain complex topics in a concise and accessible way.
• Day One: Create structured and organised journal entries for self-reflection and goal setting.
• Desmos: Graphing calculator app with advanced features for visualisation.
• "Dirtcast" Podcast: For fascinating, in-depth discussions about diverse natural phenomena.
• Discord: Free voice, video, and text communication platform, allows users to create servers (communities) with multiple channels for different topics or groups
• Elevate Brain Training: Games designed to improve cognitive skills, including spatial reasoning and kinesthetic learning.
• Endel: App offering soundtracks optimised for concentration and relaxation.
• EndNote: Powerful reference management software with advanced features like group collaboration and document formatting, but requires a paid subscription.
• Evernote: Capture notes, organise research, and access information across multiple devices, creating a centralised hub for storing and recalling information.
• Etymology Online: Explore word origins and enrich understanding.
• Focus@Will: App offering soundtracks optimised for concentration and relaxation.
• Focus Keeper: Pomodoro timer app with customisable intervals and break notifications, promoting focused work sprints and time management.
• Forest: Focus app that uses a virtual tree-growing mechanic, where distractions lead to losing your "forest," creating a sense of accountability and promoting time management.
• Freedom: Blocks distracting websites and apps on all your devices, promoting digital detox and focused work within a structured environment.
• Gaia GPS: Find hiking trails, plan outdoor adventures, and track your progress in nature.
• GitHub Student Pack: Free access to developer tools and resources, including collaboration features and private repositories.
• Glean: Combines audio recording with note-taking, transcribing audio in real-time and allowing you to highlight key points and add notes.
• Google Earth VR: Explore the world and historical sites in 3D, enhancing geographical understanding.
• Grammarly: Grammar checker and writing assistant that suggests improvements for clarity, style, and grammar.
• Headspace: Guided meditation app with various courses and exercises to reduce stress and improve focus, promoting a calmer and more structured approach to tasks.
• Hemingway Editor: Highlights long sentences, complex words, and passive voice, encouraging concise and impactful writing.
• Immersive Reader: Built-in tool in Microsoft Edge and OneNote, providing dyslexia-friendly reading features and focus options, supporting structured learning for neurodivergent individuals.
• iNaturalist: Identify plants and animals, contribute to scientific research, and connect with like-minded individuals.
• Insight Timer: Meditation app with a large library of free guided meditations and a timer for personal practice.
• Jamovi: User-friendly statistical software with a beginner-friendly interface.
• Journey: Journaling app with prompts and challenges to spark self-discovery and introspection.
• Kaggle: Platform for data science competitions and learning, offering datasets and tutorials.
• Komoot: Find hiking trails, plan outdoor adventures, and track your progress in nature.
• Livescribe Echo Pen: Records lectures while you take handwritten notes, allowing you to revisit audio later and link it to specific notes.
• Lucidchart: Flowcharts and diagrams to visualise relationships between concepts and processes.
• Mendeley: Free reference management software with automatic bibliography generation, note-taking capabilities, and social networking features for collaboration.
• Merlin Bird ID: App that can identify flora and fauna on-the-go.
• Meshmixer: Open-source 3D modeling software with tools for editing, repair, and optimisation.
• Microsoft Teams: Versatile platform for group projects, online meetings, and document sharing.
• Milanote: Digital corkboard for organising ideas, notes, and to-dos with visual appeal, helping to clarify priorities and connections.
• Mindly: Simple and intuitive app for quick brainstorming and visualising ideas.
• Mindmeister: Online mind mapping tool for visually organising notes, brainstorming ideas, and connecting key points.
• Miro: Collaborative mind mapping tool with diverse layouts and features, perfect for visually planning projects, outlining tasks, and organising research findings.
• My Study Life: Organise classes, schedules, and assignments, set reminders, and track progress towards goals, providing structure and reducing feeling overwhelmed.
• National Geographic: Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and learn about diverse ecosystems and environmental challenges.
• NaturalReader: Text-to-speech tool for reading documents aloud, helpful for auditory learners or those with reading difficulties.
• Nature Soundscapes: Apps or websites with calming nature sounds like rain, waves, or forest sounds can create a peaceful environment.
• Nebo: Convert handwritten notes to text, add diagrams, and collaborate with others.
• Nike Training Club: Free app with guided workouts and training programs for diverse fitness goals.
• Noisli: App offering soundtracks optimised for concentration and relaxation.
• Notability: iPad note-taking app with handwriting recognition, annotation tools, and various templates for visual note-taking.
• Notion: Flexible note-taking and project management app with customisable features and databases, allowing for structured organisation of notes, projects, and tasks.
• "Ologies" Podcast: For fascinating, in-depth discussions about diverse natural phenomena.
• OneNote: Built-in note-taking app with flexible organisation, audio recording, and collaboration features, allowing for structured note-taking and project management.
• Onshape: Free cloud-based CAD software for 3D modeling and design, useful for engineering and science projects.
• Otter.ai: Real-time transcription tool for capturing lectures, meetings, or interviews and organising them with timestamps and speaker identification.
• Peloton App: Access virtual cycling and fitness classes for various fitness levels.
• Penzu: Password-protected journaling app for private reflections and documenting your journey.
• PhET Interactive Simulations: Interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations.
• Project Euler: Online platform with challenging maths problems ranging from easy to expert level.
• ProWritingAid: Comprehensive writing feedback tool with grammar checks, style suggestions, and plagiarism detection.
• Python: Powerful programming language commonly used in academic research and data analysis.
• Quizlet: Create flashcards, quizzes, and study sets with various learning modes (matching, fill-in-the-blank, etc.).
• R: Powerful programming language commonly used in academic research and data analysis.
• Read&Write: Integrates with various platforms, offering text-to-speech, grammar checking, and dyslexia-friendly fonts, improving reading comprehension and promoting structured note-taking.
• SciStarter: Discover citizen science projects across various disciplines, from astronomy to ecology.
• Scrivener: Writing software with outlining tools, note-taking capabilities, and distraction-free modes.
• Seek: App that can identify flora and fauna on-the-go.
• Serene: Customisable focus app with ambient sounds, white noise, and nature sounds to aid concentration.
• Slack: Popular platform used by many student organisations and projects for communication and collaboration.
• Soundtrap: Compose music or soundscapes as a study outlet and creative expression.
• Star Walk 2: Identify constellations, explore the night sky, and learn about astronomy.
• Strava: Track workouts, analyse performance, and connect with other active students.
• Tableau Public: Free data visualisation tool for creating interactive dashboards and report
• Talkspace: Online therapy platform offering affordable and confidential counselling support.
• TED Talks: Listen to engaging presentations and practice summarising key points.
• Tinkercad: Beginner-friendly platform for creating simple 3D models and learning basic design principles.
• Todoist: Task management app with robust features like recurring tasks, projects, and priority levels, ensuring tasks are organised and deadlines are met.
• Trello: Visualise tasks and manage workflow with boards, lists, and cards, ideal for breaking down large projects into smaller, manageable steps.
• Tynker: Learn to code through interactive games and creative projects.
• Udacity Nanodegrees: Specialised online courses with industry-relevant projects in data science, web development, and other high-demand fields.
• Wolfram Alpha: Computational knowledge engine that can solve and explain complex mathematical problems.
• XMind: Feature-rich mind mapping software with various themes and customisation options.
• Zotero: Open-source reference manager with browser plugins for easy reference collection, note-taking tools, and various output styles.
• Zygote Body: 3D models of the human body for medical and biology students.