Fix the habitat,
not the habit.
I help schools, agencies, and organizations build the curriculum, training, and environments where neurodivergent people get to stop apologizing for surviving bad design and start doing the brilliant thing they came here to do.
ON STAGE AT TEDxNASHVILLE
I learned precision from poetry, and now I point it at the systems that shape how people learn.
I'm Alora Young, a Nashville consultant, speaker, curriculum developer, and the founder of NeuroScouts, and all of my work keeps circling back to one stubborn idea, which is that when a person keeps struggling in an environment, you change the environment first.
Before any of that I was (and still am) a poet. I wrote Walking Gentry Home (Hogarth / Penguin Random House), served as Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States, a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and a U.S. Arts Envoy, and then wrote a whole Swarthmore thesis, Every Lesson Is a Poem, about what spoken word can teach us about neurodivergent learners. Right now I'm getting my MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts, because apparently I cannot stop going to school.
Three ways to work together
Everything I offer is built out of lived experience, a frankly unreasonable amount of research, and a curriculum designer's eye for what actually sticks.
Consulting
I design neurodivergence-affirming curriculum and programs, run Habitat Hacking audits on your spaces and systems, and train your people so the work keeps growing after I leave.
Currently consulting with the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
Explore consultingSpeaking
Keynotes, workshops, and panels that land like poems and leave your audience holding something they can actually use on Monday morning.
NeuroScouts
My neurodivergence-affirming learning community, full of curriculum, mutual support, sensory access, and ranks and XP and quests, because growth should feel like a game you actually want to play.
Piloted with 13 neurodivergent middle schoolers in Nashville.
Visit NeuroScoutsShow up as you are
Office Hours
Weekly peer support on Zoom, cameras optional, stimming encouraged.
Sliding scale. Scholarships available.
Save a seatPaperwork Night
We sit together and body double through the forms that eat executive function alive, applications and benefits and medication access and every portal that keeps logging you out.
Join the next oneAdult Homeschool
Self-directed learning for neurodivergent adults, done together, so the Coursera module you've been avoiding for three weeks finally has some company.
Sign upDopamine Farming™ Quest Decks
400-card decks that turn tasks, rest, and self-care into quests your brain actually wants to go on, plus a free tool library, no email required!
Shop at neuroscouts.org
Read Savants & Syntax
My Substack, where I write about neurodivergence, learning, poetry, and the strange science of being a person. I'm so glad you're here!
Consulting, speaking, and NeuroScouts, made in Nashville, Tennessee and sent anywhere that will have me.
Book AloraI built this site for brains like mine, dyslexia-friendly type and all, so if anything here gets in your way, email alorayoung2003@gmail.com and I will fix it (and probably thank you for the bug report).
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