About Digitally Nutritious
Who We Are
Digitally Nutritious is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides independent, evidence-based guidance on choosing and using technology, games, and AI tools for neurodivergent kids. Our mission is to give parents, teachers, and clinicians the information they need to get the most out of technology for these kids while keeping the harms in check.
It is the place to go when someone raising, teaching, or treating a neurodivergent child needs to know what an app, game, AI tutor, AI companion, or digital health tool actually does, whether it is likely to help or harm that child, and how to build reasonable habits around it. That resource does not exist yet. Digitally Nutritious is building it.
Why Digitally Nutritious Exists
Roughly 20% of children are neurodivergent and often struggle in traditional learning environments. Yet these same children frequently demonstrate deep focus, motivation, and persistence when engaged with technology—whether through games, apps, creative platforms, or digital tools. Technology is often where they feel most competent and most successful.
But technology also holds the most significant risks for neurodivergent youth:
• excessive engagement
• emotional dysregulation
• social vulnerability
• reliance on technology as a coping mechanism
And now, a new layer has emerged:
The rapid rise of AI tools—homework helpers, creative generators, chat-based companions, and personalized tutors—has introduced enormous potential and new uncertainties. Neurodivergent kids may benefit more from AI’s personalized support, but are also more vulnerable to its risks.
Parents, educators, and clinicians urgently need ND-specific, evidence-based guidance on how to leverage technology—including AI.
Digitally Nutritious fills this gap.
Our Purpose
To improve problem-solving, executive functioning, and social-emotional learning in neurodivergent children by guiding adults in the healthy, targeted use of popular technologies, AI tools, and emerging digital health and neurotechnology tools.
We help families understand when AI is appropriate, how to use it in developmentally and diagnostically sensitive ways, and how to prevent overdependence or misuse.
Who We Serve
We serve neurodivergent youth ages 4–18, including children with:
• ADHD
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Learning Disabilities
• Anxiety and mood challenges
• Executive functioning (EF) weaknesses
• Twice exceptionality (2e)
• Subclinical attentional, organizational, or social-emotional difficulties
• Processing difficulties
• Speech and language disorders
• Behavioral and conduct challenges
Our primary users are the adults who guide them—parents, educators, clinicians, and caregivers—who need clear, trustworthy information on digital tools, including how to evaluate and use AI safely with neurodivergent children.
Our Method
How Digitally Nutritious Helps
Our Approach
Why Digitally Nutritious is Different
Digitally Nutritious is distinct because we:
- Balance concerns about tech use with methods to make it worthwhile.
- Integrate play-based learning principles into tech time.
- Use screen time to promote executive function and SEL skills.
- Recognize the unique needs of neurodivergent children.
- Are experts in digital health and neurotechnology knowledge.
- Provide evidence-based transfer strategies for tech use.
- Start our work from a real-world generalization framework.
Join Us
Help make screen time—and AI time—digitally nutritious for every neurodivergent child.
Together, we can transform the tools kids already love into powerful engines of growth, independence, and confidence.