Specialty Topic Training

Person-Centered Perspectives: ADHD  

Available only to Certified Instructors, this training package equips you with a deeper understanding of ADHD and its impact on a range of behaviors. With a collection of training resources, you'll have everything you need to deliver impactful, ADHD-tailored training. Explore the “what” and “why” of ADHD, discover how staff responses can escalate or prevent risk behavior, and use adapted CPI teaching materials to train staff who work with individuals with ADHD. 

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Strengthen CPI Training with ADHD-Specific Resources

As a Certified Instructor, you’ll gain targeted tools and insights to adapt CPI training principles for individuals with ADHD—helping you better support those you serve with confidence and clarity.

Understand ADHD and risk behavior
Deepen your understanding of ADHD—the most commonly diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorder in K–12 students—and it's impact on all behaviors, including risk behavior.
Adapt CPI principles with practical skills
Learn how to tailor CPI’s core models and de-escalation strategies to better respond to individuals with ADHD in real-world scenarios.
Teach with confidence and ease
Deliver content tailored to staff needs with minimal effort using ready-to-use guides, presentations, and digital resources.

Flexible Learning Features That Work for You

Classroom-Ready Delivery Tools

Includes an Instructor Guide and electronic presentation for delivering ADHD overview content, plus a brief online course available for purchase for end learners.

ADHD-Specific Instructor Support

A supplement to the core CPI Instructor Guide and electric presentation featuring ADHD-specific strategies, examples, and activities to enhance classroom engagement.

Digital Resources for End Learners

Access digital worksheets and a worksheet tailored to help end learners apply CPI models to students or clients with ADHD.

Video Library

Utilize short videos that provide deeper insights for further professional development—ideal for Certified Instructors and staff.

Live Strategy Sessions

Join unlimited virtual sessions led by CPI Training and Development Consultants for implementation advice and peer-to-peer strategy sharing.

Full Program Access

Get full access to materials for CPI programs you’re certified to teach, including VI, NCI™, NCI™ With Intermediate Skills, and NCI™ With Advanced Physical Skills.

Informed by Certified Instructors

We’ve created Specialty Topic Training packages, like Person-Centered Perspectives: ADHD, based on your requests for more behavior-specific training content tailored to the needs of your staff and the people they serve. In response, we’ve developed flexible, easy-to-use resources supported by expert-informed content, personalized CPI training recommendations, and now available for only $499 USD per CI—empowering your team to deliver specialized de-escalation training with confidence.

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Programs Enhanced by Person-Centered Perspectives: ADHD

Strengthen one of four foundational CPI training programs with ADHD-specific content.

Verbal Intervention™
Prepares staff to identify, respond to, and prevent low-risk crisis behavior with non-restrictive intervention techniques.
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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention®
Trains staff to prevent and de-escalate medium- to high-risk behavior using both restrictive and non-restrictive methods.
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NCI™ With Intermediate Physical Skills
Equips staff with the skills and confidence to safely use physical interventions as a last resort, without using supine or prone holds.
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NCI™ With Advanced Physical Skills
Prepares staff with problem-solving skills to recognize the level of risk and minimize physical interventions using safe and advanced disengagement techniques.
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