Marydee Sklar wrote the course “Seeing My Time.” I met Marydee Sklar at an LDA conference on the West Coast and fell in love with her. She is spunky, down to earth and energetic. Later, I took her training course … Continue reading →
It’s the half way through the college semester and you have things you must do. Here’s your to-do list: Make a list of each of your classes and find out your current grade for each class. Write this down so … 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 →
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 … 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 →
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 … Continue reading →