ADHD & School Success

How ADHD coaching helps students…

•Learn,•Succeed and •Thrive

A slideshow for parents and educators by the Edge Foundation

By the time many students start looking for help, it’s already too late

ADHD students are At-Risk students.

More likely to be:Suspended (60%),Held back (42%)

Less likely to:Enter college (22%) Graduate from college (5%)

35% of ADHD High School Students

Drop OutDrop OutGraduate

It’s hard to get help when you’ve been told all of your life that you could just do better if you only harder.

•Procrastination•Lateness•Spacing out•Interrupting•Anxiety

Your student needs more than willpower to overcome the symptoms of ADHD.

Medication is only part of the answer

Medication may help…• Academic Productivity• Note taking• Quiz Scores• Homework Completion

…doesn’t teach life skills: Organization Time

management Goal setting Focusing Persistence

And tutoring

There’s a new idea for working with ADHD…

ADHD coaching builds skills the same way an athletic coach can boost performance

In 2010, Edge Foundation concluded a two-year research study that proved coaching builds life skills crucial to academic success

7 life skills critical to academic success:

Success

Scheduling

Goal settingConfidenceOrganizingFocusing

Prioritizing

Persistence

There’s Proof: ADHD coaching works

Students who received Edge coaching showed substantial gains in their overall approach to learning.

They showed significant improvement in their ability to organize, direct and manage cognitive activities, emotional responses and overt behaviors.

Coaching is student based

• Students sets their own goals – not the parent, coach or teacher

• Coaches do not tell students what to do, nor lead by example • Instead, coaches helps students identify and work toward their strengths, while learning to navigate their weaknesses.

Coaches…

Suggest, encourage and guide

Monitor student progress

Provide daily check-ins for structure and accountability

Are easily accessible by phone or Skype

You can’t sign up your student for coachingIt’s their responsibility…

But you can tell them how it will help…Assess their environments

Effectively set goals

Learn time management techniques

Coaching helps students

And show them where to get more information:

Find out more today or call 1(888) 718-8886

ADHD Coaching Study Details 2 year, 3 phase, $1 million study completed

August 2010 Conducted by Wayne State University College of

Education’s Center for Self-Determination and Transition research team

Largest and longest such study ever conducted on ADHD coaching

First study to provide quantitative data on the effects of ADHD Coaching

Controlled study with randomly selected experimental and control groups, specifically designed data collection instruments and protocols, and use of standard scientific statistical methodologies.

Edge Foundation Coaching Study Executive Summary

Edge Foundation Coaching Study Full Report

Key Findings Students who received Edge

coaching showed substantial gains in their overall approach to learning.

ADHD students demonstrated statistically significant, higher executive functioning than ADHD students who did not receive coaching. 

The magnitude of the effect size for self regulation was more than double the typical educational intervention, and executive functioning was quadruple. Findings with effect sizes that large are rare.

Edge Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit serving the United States and Canada.Questions? info@edgefoundation.org

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