The Schools Unified in Neurodiversity Collaborative: Co-designing a program to enhance educator knowledge and efficacy supporting children with neurodevelopmental disabilities.

The study had no control group, so the gains cannot be separated from time, selection, or other school events. All outcomes were educator self-report, collected before training and within two weeks after training. The pilot was done in one U.S. suburban district with limited racial and ethnic diversity among students and staff. Child learning, social, and mental health outcomes were not measured. The study was not powered to analyze subgroup differences, such as grade level. There was no objective check of whether educators used the tools, used them as intended, or kept using them.

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Do not read the large pre-post gains as proof that the SUN Program improves neurodivergent children's learning, social, or mental health outcomes. The study had no control group, used educator self-report only, and did not measure child outcomes.