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This online class equips teens with ADHD (ages 13-18) with practical tools to manage their symptoms and thrive in school and life. Here's a breakdown of specific learnings:

Understanding ADHD & Executive Functions

What is ADHD?: Learn the core symptoms of ADHD, the different types (inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive, combined), and how they can manifest in daily life.

Executive Functions Explained: the skills responsible for planning, organization, time management, focus, and emotional regulation. 

The Impact of ADHD on Executive Functions
Will Explore how ADHD can affect specific executive functions and create challenges with staying organized, managing time, focusing on tasks, and controlling impulses.

Building Winning Strategies:

- Time Management Techniques: Will Learn practical methods for creating schedules, prioritizing tasks, estimating time needed for assignments, and avoiding procrastination. Tools like planners, timers, and to-do lists will be explored. 

- Organization Hacks: Will Discover strategies for staying organized with schoolwork, belongings, and digital files. 

- Focus Boosters: Will Explore different methods for improving focus during homework, studying, and test-taking. This includes identifying distractions, managing screen time, and using focus techniques like the Pomodoro Technique. 

- Emotional Regulation Skills: Will Learn strategies for managing emotions and impulses that can be challenging with ADHD.  This might involve relaxation techniques, self-talk strategies, and recognizing triggers.

I am an ADHD and Executive Function Coach and work with students, children, teens, and adults with or without ADHD. I help clients identify what is working well in their lives and what areas need strengthening. I support my clients as they identify goals, build action plans and develop systems to move them closer toward their goals.

This class is specifically designed to support teens with (or w/o ADHD) through:

Focus on Executive Functions
Practical Strategies
Structure & Flexibility
Accountability