1. Do you struggle in school?
Coaching Helps ADHD Students
Learn, Succeed and Thrive

2. Do people tell you you’d do fine if you just try harder?
Procrastinating?
Spacing out?
Late?
Interrupting?
Anxious?

3. ADHD Students are At-Risk Students
35% of ADHD High School Plus ADHD
Students Drop Out students are
more likely to be
suspended
(60%),
Drop Out held back
Graduate (42%)
and
are less likely
to enter (22%)
or graduate from
(5%) college

4. Medication is only part of the answer
Medication may
help…
• Academic
Productivity
• Note taking
• Quiz Scores
• Homework
Completion
But…

5. Academic success requires life skills
Life Skills
• Organization
• Time
Medication Management
• Goal Setting
• Focusing
• Persistence

6. There’s a new idea
for working with
your ADHD…

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

8. 7 life skills are critical to academic success:
Scheduling
Persistence Goal setting
Prioritizing Confidence
Focusing Organizing

9. In 2010, Edge
Foundation
concluded a two-
year research
study that proved
coaching builds
these crucial
academic skills

10. Now There’s Proof: ADHD coaching works
 Students who received Edge
coaching showed substantial
gains in their overall approach
to learning.
 Students who received Edge
coaching services showed
significant improvement in their
ability to organize, direct and
manage cognitive
activities, emotional responses
and overt behaviors.

11. Assess their
Effectively set goals
environments
Coaching
helps
Learn time
Get and stay
management
organized
techniques

12. Coaches…
Suggest, encourage and guide
Monitor student progress
Provide daily check-ins for
structure and accountability
Provide services over the phone
or by Skype

13. Get more information!!
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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more." Erica Jong

14. 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

15. 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.

16. ADHD and College Success: A free guide
UC Davis Study: Dropout risks:
ADHD, conduct disorder, smoking
ADHD and Executive Functioning
Executive Function, ADHD and Academic
Outcomes
Major Life Activity and Health Outcomes
Associated with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder
A coach to help with ADHD, CNN Headline
News, 1/26/2011 and ADHD kids benefit from
coaching, CNN, The Chart, 11/12/10
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