Neurodivergent Household Home Safety Assessment in South Jersey
A home safety and technology assessment built for autistic and ADHD adults, families with neurodivergent children, and households where sensory environment, executive function, and routine show up in daily life. Plus a child safety extension when there are kids in the household.
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Your home should work for your brain.
The Neurodivergent Household track of the Home Safety and Technology Assessment, for autistic and ADHD adults, families with neurodivergent children, and households where sensory environment, executive function, and routine show up in daily life.
You probably do not need anyone to explain to you why this matters. The morning routine that falls apart at the kitchen transition. The bedtime negotiation that takes forty minutes. The Ring camera that sends irrelevant alerts that feel intrusive rather than helpful. The smart speaker that interrupted a regulation moment instead of supporting one. The house that runs against your brain instead of with it.
This assessment is built around how your household actually functions, with sensory environment, executive function, routine anchoring, and elopement risk in the instrument as defaults, not as special add-ons. I designed it that way because I needed it that way, and most of what was on the market did not exist with this lens.
What the Neurodivergent Household Home Safety Assessment Looks At
The full 230-point instrument, plus a neurodivergent profile that the rest of the report builds on.
- Sensory environment, including lighting transitions, sound, temperature, smell, and the specific overstimulation points that show up in your household
- Executive function support, including transition cues, routine anchoring, decision fatigue load, and the moments in the day where the system should do the work that working memory should not have to
- Elopement risk, when it applies, including door sensors, perimeter visibility, and the specific situation that the household is navigating
- Routine anchoring, including bedtime, morning, transitions out of preferred activities, and the specific sequences where the household tends to fall apart
- Competing needs, including how a sensory accommodation for one household member intersects with a different sensory profile for another
- The smart home technology you already have, including what is supporting you, what is interrupting you, and what is collecting data about your household in ways that the brand language did not disclose
- The full 230-point home safety walkthrough, because sensory and executive function does not exist in a vacuum from steps, lighting, water, and the rest of the home
What's in Your Neurodivergent Home Safety Assessment Report
A written, prioritized plan within five business days, the review call that turns it into something you can act on, and a 30-day check-in that catches what only becomes obvious after a few weeks of real life.
- Top safety priorities, including elopement risk where it applies, named clearly, with the reasoning behind each
- Sensory and executive function recommendations, scoped to your specific household and the specific friction points that came up on the walkthrough
- Quick wins for this week, the no-cost and low-cost items that you can act on before the bigger decisions even get made
- Longer-term recommendations, sequenced by impact, with rough cost ranges so the planning conversation has numbers attached
- Technology recommendations when technology is the right answer, defaulting to local control, privacy-first architecture, and no subscriptions
- Specialist referrals, with context, including occupational therapy, sensory integration, and others when relevant
- A plain-language summary page, built for sharing with a partner, a co-parent, a school, or a clinician without having to translate
- A 30 to 45 minute review call, where the document becomes a sequenced plan and questions get answered
- A 30-day check-in call, included in every neurodivergent household engagement, because recommendations land differently after a few weeks
Who Books This Assessment for Autistic and ADHD Households
Four kinds of households that show up consistently in this work.
The autistic adult planning their own space
You know your sensory profile better than any assessment can ever surface. You want a consultant who is going to ask the right follow-up questions and write a plan that respects what you already know about how your brain works.
The ADHD adult or couple managing executive function load
The mental tax of running a household where working memory is in short supply adds up. You want the home to do the work that working memory should not have to do, and you want a plan that names the specific points where the system should pick up the slack.
The parent of an autistic or ADHD child
The bedtime routine, the morning routine, the transition out of preferred activities. You know which moments fall apart, and you are tired of the cameras and apps that were sold to you not understanding what you actually need. The assessment maps the specific failure points and writes recommendations that fit your household.
The household with overlapping neurodivergent and aging-in-place needs
A neurodivergent adult and an aging parent under one roof. Or an autistic teenager and a multigenerational household. The Multigenerational track maps the overlap and sequences recommendations that serve the whole household, not just the loudest problem.
Adding Child Safety to the Neurodivergent Household Assessment
For neurodivergent households that also include children, the Child Safety extension activates on top of the neurodivergent work.
The Child Safety extension adds a specific instrument that covers the safety and sensory needs of households with kids, whether the child is neurodivergent, the adults are, or both. It runs alongside the neurodivergent assessment, not in place of it.
Specific items the Child Safety extension addresses:
- Elopement sensors, scoped to the specific risk profile of your household
- Cabinet access and knob guards, including the trade-offs between child safety and adult sensory or executive function load
- Smart shutoffs for stoves, water, and other risks where a curious five-year-old and a busy parent meet in the kitchen
- The bedroom sensory environment for the child, with the same lens that the rest of the assessment uses
- Bedtime routine support, where the system is doing the work that nightly negotiation should not have to do
The Child Safety extension is $100 on top of the base Neurodivergent Household price. Total investment with the extension is named in the section below.
Why I Built This Track from Inside the Household, Not Outside It
I am AuDHD. I was diagnosed at thirty-four, after years of knowing that something was different but not having the language for it. I am also raising a neurodivergent child, solo. I know the morning where the routine falls apart at the kitchen transition. I know the bedtime that becomes a forty-minute negotiation. I know the specific exhaustion of a household where executive function is in short supply and the sensory environment is loud whether you want it to be or not.
Most of the people who design home technology do not live this. It shows in the apps. It shows in the setup flows. It shows in the failure modes, which are loud and disruptive at the exact moments that you have the least bandwidth to deal with them. I built this track because the work that I wanted for my own household did not exist, and when I went to find it, the closest thing was an integrator pitching a six-figure install.
If you are running a neurodivergent household, you do not need to translate yourself for me, and you do not need to brace for the explanation that usually follows. The assessment already accounts for sensory environment, routine anchoring, executive function support, and elopement risk as a default.
Beyond what I bring as a person, I am a home safety consultant with a specialization in smart home automation and accessibility. The assessment is aligned to three credentialing frameworks: CLIPP (Certificate for Living in Place Professional), CAPS (Certified Aging in Place Specialist), and SHSS (Senior Home Safety Specialist). What makes the neurodivergent track different is that I built it for a household like mine, not from a textbook.
What a Neurodivergent Household Recommendation Looks Like in Practice
An example of one of the real automations that comes out of the Neurodivergent Household Assessment, when technology turns out to be the right answer.
Voice-Activated Shower
For neurodivergent households, transitions are the hard part, not the task itself. A voice command starts the shower before the argument about starting it does. The routine runs smoother, the sensory resistance has less to grab onto, and one less negotiation happens at the end of a long day.
Investment in the Neurodivergent Household Assessment
The Neurodivergent Household Assessment is $475, flat-rate, including the 30-day check-in call.
With the Child Safety extension added, the investment is $575.
In-person assessments are available throughout South Jersey, Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Northern Delaware. Travel surcharges apply by distance from Cherry Hill, NJ, starting at 11 miles, and get confirmed on the discovery call. For households outside that radius, the Remote Safety Snapshot is $295 and is built around guided video.
Reassessments are available at 75% of the current posted rate.
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"Ashley shows up to each conversation with a startling amount of knowledge on the subject, insights into how things can connect that I would never see, and the patience of a saint. I can't recommend her highly enough."
"I chose Serenity Smart Homes because you promote a private network where I have full control. I can keep control of all my data locally. I don't want to load anything into the cloud."
Start with the Free Discovery Call.
30 minutes on the phone or on video to find out whether the Neurodivergent Household assessment is the right next step for your household, and whether the Child Safety extension applies. No pitch, no obligation.
Book Your Free 30-Minute Discovery CallCommon Questions About the Neurodivergent Household Assessment
No. The assessment is built around how your household actually functions, not around diagnostic categories. Self-identification, lived experience, and observed patterns are enough. If a family member's profile is part of the picture and a clinical evaluation is needed but not yet in place, I flag that as a referral in the report.
Ideally, yes, for as much of the 90 to 150 minutes as fits their bandwidth and comfort. The person who lives in the home is the person who knows the friction points that no walkthrough can surface from the outside. I work with the household to figure out what presence looks like. For some clients that means being on the walkthrough start to finish. For others it means a structured intake call beforehand, the walkthrough with another household member, and a debrief at the end.
An OT sensory evaluation looks at the person and how their nervous system processes the world. This assessment looks at the home, the technology, and how both interact with how the household actually works. When an OT is already involved, I coordinate with them rather than duplicating their work. The two halves of the picture sit together. If you have an existing OT relationship, bring them into the loop. If you do not, and a clinical evaluation would help, the report says so.
The check-in is included in every neurodivergent household engagement. It happens about 30 days after the report review call, and it covers what you have tried, what is working, what is not, and what to adjust. Recommendations land differently after a few weeks of real life. The check-in is built to catch the adjustments that only become obvious after the report has had time to be lived with.
Yes. That is the default. The recommendations stay local-control, privacy-first, and subscription-free. Camera footage stays on the property when cameras are recommended at all. Voice assistants are scoped to what they actually need to do, and the disposition of your household's data is documented in plain language. If a previous device that you bought feels intrusive, that gets named in the report, and the alternatives that do not feel intrusive get named too.
No. I am a consultant, not a contractor and not an integrator. The report names what to do, in what order, with rough cost ranges and the type of professional who should do it. You can hand the report to any contractor or installer that you already trust. If you would like introductions, I coordinate warm referrals to vetted local professionals.