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From Ruth’s Desk: Insights & Strategies for Life with ADHD
Helpful articles, tips, and stories to support your academic and professional journey.
ADHD Coaching Part 6
Four Hacks for Self-Monitoring and Self-Regulating Actions Another "store-manager" type task our brain does is keeping up with moment-by-moment behavior in other words self-monitoring and self-regulating your behavior. If there is a deficit in this executive function...
ADHD Coaching Part 5
Six Hacks for Managing Your Working Memory What is working memory? Working memory is like a holding station where a network of neurons holds a bit of information while at the same time doing something else. Working memory holds a never ending flow of input from our...
ADHD Coaching Part 4
Four hacks for managing frustration and regulating your emotions. People with ADD syndrome often struggle with emotions. They might have a very low threshold for frustration. Or they might struggle with regulating their emotional experience and expression. * Managing...
ADHD Part 3 Effort
Executive Functions Effort: Regulating alertness, sustaining effort, and processing speed. Effort refers to regulating how alert you are for a given task. Your mind helps you stay alert and maintain the right amount of effort for the task while performing the task you...
ADHD Part 2 Focus
Executive Functions Focus: Focusing, sustaining and shifting attention to tasks. This executive function plays a major role in academics. Take for example the task of reading. Reading requires that we stop paying attention to something else like the furry puppy in the...
ADHD Part 1-Activation
Understanding the ADD syndrome is the first step to understand why you do what you do and how to get on with your goals in life. Remember this: Executive function means the job of managing behavior and thoughts. This job is multi-layered and multi-faceted. It's...
Six Aspects of ADHD
Executive function skills are the processes in our mind that manage and monitor our behavior and thoughts. Thomas E. Brown's six-cluster arrangement helps explain a deficit (or simply inefficiency) in our executive function skills,commonly referred to as ADHD....
Five Things You Need to Understand about ADHD
I've worked with children with ADHD before ADHD became a household word. Most often, the students I worked with were undiagnosed. I didn't know what to do with those kids or why they behaved the way they did. I continually looked for ideas about how to teach them and...
Seven Wonderful Reasons to Go to College
Everyone should go to college. People might criticize me for making such a blanket statement. And I understand the reasons for some folks who choose not to attend college. But hear me out. I work with college students with and students without learning disabilities...
Academic coaching in Texas and Oklahoma
Hubby Dear and I took a quick trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma last weekend. Before heading home we stopped by Schusterman Center, OU - Tulsa and Oral Roberts University. Being a photographer, he captured these striking images of both universities. I love walking or...
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