Students with both ADHD and dyslexia are often supported as if they have one challenge at a time. In real life, they do not. Reading and spelling demands, effortful output, executive functioning struggles, avoidance, overwhelm, and inconsistent follow-through often stack on top of one another. Adults may see distraction, resistance, incomplete work, or low motivation while missing the combined load underneath. This session offers a practical framework for understanding and supporting students with co-occurring ADHD and dyslexia across school, home, and transition settings. Attendees will learn how this dual profile affects learning, task initiation, output, emotional regulation, and help-seeking, why support plans often fail when literacy and executive function needs are treated separately, and how to build more effective responses. Using real-world examples, this presentation will help participants recognize common misreads, distinguish skill gaps from overload, and apply a four-part support framework addressing literacy load, executive functioning, communication/self-advocacy, and overwhelm recovery. Attendees will leave with clearer language, practical tools, and a more accurate way to design support that reflects the whole student.