Summer is almost here and visions of a road trip to the beach dance in your head. Reality-check. You are enrolled in a summer semester. Who’s idea was it anyway? Maybe you didn’t do well on a calculus course and … Continue reading →
The procrastination monster: every college student’s challenge. You know what to study. Chapters. Power points. Lecture notes. Quizzes. You know how to study. Repetition. Check of knowledge. Explain the concept in your own words. Teach it to someone else. But … 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 →
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 … Continue reading →
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 your … 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 →
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. Dr. … Continue reading →