Learning disabilities and ADHD are among the most common disabilities reported by college students. Research shows that students with LD/ADHD are less likely to graduate compared to students without LD/ADHD. In contrast, college students with LD/ADHD who are successful in … Continue reading →
My clients often ask me how to handle a difficult situation. As a coach, I work with college students with learning disabilities or ADHD. My coaching clients include adults with ADHD or simply an adult who wants to make a … Continue reading →
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 is might lead … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →