For providers
Clarity Board is a visual routine board families run at home. When a parent shares one child with you, you see which steps were ticked and when — and you can suggest a chore or a reward, which reaches the parent to accept or decline before it touches the board.
“So — how did it go?” Most of what reaches you between sessions is remembered: two weeks compressed into an answer given on the spot, at the start of the session you were going to use for the work.
Memory for how two weeks went is reconstructive. That is the reason real-time assessment methods exist at all (Shiffman, Stone & Hufford, 2008).
This is not a better account than the parent’s. It is a smaller, duller one — which steps were ticked, and when. The parent still tells you what it cost.
Why it is built this way
The reasoning, with its evidence graded. Where something is a framework rather than a finding, it says so.
The best-supported psychosocial route in ADHD and autism runs through the parent (Daley et al., 2014; Nevill et al., 2018). You should have the caveat from us rather than find it: with blinded raters the ADHD effects appear in parenting and conduct rather than core symptoms (Sonuga-Barke et al., 2013), and Project AIM found autism effects largely did not survive restriction to blinded outcomes (Sandbank et al., 2020).
Visual activity schedules have a supporting single-case literature in autistic children and children with intellectual disability (Knight, Sartini & Spriggs, 2015). That work is adult-mediated and taught with fidelity; this is a board in a kitchen, and we do not claim it reproduces a schedule you taught. Putting the cue where the task happens, rather than in a conversation beforehand, is Barkley’s framework — not a trial result.
A missed day never reduces anything, and there are no streaks. Not because response cost does not work — it does, in programs you design and supervise (McGoey & DuPaul, 2000) — but because a board in a kitchen should not run a contingency nobody prescribed. We have no evidence that streaks harm children, and none that they help.
This is a routine board, not an intervention. It has not been tested in a trial and we will not describe it as though it had. Everything above is about the literature we designed from, not about this product.
The recall point is extrapolated from adult, symptom-focused research on real-time assessment; we found no study of parent recall of routine steps specifically. A tap records that someone tapped — not that a step was done independently, or without a long negotiation. No home data-sharing tool of this kind has been shown to change therapeutic outcomes. Whether cumulative counts beat streaks for children under ten is unstudied in either direction. Clarity Board does not claim to train focus, build executive function or improve self-regulation: there is no generalization evidence for that, so we do not make the claim.
One child’s routine, ticks and progress, for as long as their parent chooses to share it — plus a way to suggest a change the parent approves before it reaches the board.
The refusals are load-bearing, so they are stated plainly.
The parent grants it, one child at a time, and can take it back whenever they want without asking us. You never see a family that has not shared with you, and you never see a sibling who was not included. Accounts are by invitation: ask below and we will send you a single-use code.
