Publications
The written record of NerdyADHD.org’s research, advocacy, and lived-experience scholarship.
Signal and Noise
Signal and Noise is the memoir and primary empirical case study grounding the Cognitive-Capital Mediation (CCM) framework. It traces Dr. Royer’s navigation of ADHD, advanced cardiac illness, the transplant waiting list, the home milrinone pump, and the constellation of institutions — insurance systems, healthcare bureaucracies, pharmaceutical supply chains, disability rights frameworks — that determine whether neurodivergent people with complex medical needs survive them.
The case study is not illustrative. It is the primary evidence base from which the theoretical framework was developed and refined. It is also a book that is meant to be read — not as a research document, but as a human account of what it costs to be neurodivergent in a system that was not built for you, and what it means to survive it anyway.
Publication details and availability: partnerships@nerdyadhd.com
Lost in the Labyrinth
Lost in the Labyrinth: ADHD, Healthcare System Navigation, and Disability Rights in America
A ~40-page academic white paper submitted in pursuit of co-authorship and publication partnership with the Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA), 2026.
The paper covers: the neurobiological reality of ADHD at scale; the specific executive function demands of American healthcare navigation and how ADHD maps onto them; the disability rights legal framework (ADA, Section 504, IDEA, MHPAEA) as it applies to ADHD in healthcare settings; the compounded barriers facing women, people of color, late-diagnosed adults, and lower-income people with ADHD; and a comprehensive set of clinical, insurance, legislative, and community-level policy recommendations.
Formatted to ADDA’s established white paper standards. Includes 40+ peer-reviewed citations in APA 7th edition format, six appendices, and a proposed ADDA partnership framework.
For review copies or media inquiries: media@nerdyadhd.com
Conference presentations
“Not Appropriate”: AI, ADHD, and Your Disability Rights
2026 International Conference on ADHD (ADDA/ACO/CHADD) — Baltimore, Maryland — December 2026
A 60-minute general session presenting the legal and clinical framework for AI use as a protected disability accommodation under the ADA. Single learning objective: participants will be able to articulate the ADA legal argument for AI as a cognitive accommodation and identify three documentation steps for establishing AI use as a protected accommodation request.
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