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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.
Five Must- Do’s after Failing an Exam
Give yourself a break. Failing any exam feels terrible. Step back and create some space between you and your failure. Don't go talk to your professor if you are angry. Don't do anything right away, calm down first. Take a walk. Take a bubble bath. Work out. Go on a...
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...
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