This document discusses how ADHD coaching can help students with ADHD learn, succeed, and thrive. It notes that students with ADHD are at risk for issues like suspension, being held back, and dropping out of high school or college. While medication can help with academics, coaching teaches important life skills like organization, time management, goal setting, and persistence. The document outlines a study that found ADHD coaching significantly improved students' executive functioning and approach to learning. It asserts coaching is effective because students set their own goals and coaches provide structure, accountability, and accessibility without telling students what to do.

1. ADHD & School Success
How ADHD coaching
helps students…
•Learn,
•Succeed and
•Thrive
A slideshow for parents and educators by the Edge Foundation

2. By the time many ADHD students are
students start looking At-Risk students.
for help, it’s already
More likely to be:
too late Suspended (60%),
Held back (42%)
35% of ADHD High
School Students Drop
Out Less likely to:
Enter college
Drop Out (22%)
Graduate
Graduate from
college (5%)

3. It’s hard to get help when •Procrastination
you’ve been told all of your •Lateness
life that you could just do •Spacing out
better if you only harder. •Interrupting
•Anxiety
Your student
needs more than
willpower to
overcome the
symptoms of
ADHD.

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

5. And tutoring
…doesn’t teach
life skills:
 Organization
 Time management
 Goal setting
 Focusing
 Persistence

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

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

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

9. 7 life skills critical to academic success:
Organizing
Confidence Focusing
Goal setting Prioritizing
Scheduling Success Persistence

10. 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.

11. 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

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

13. You can’t sign up your student for coaching
It’s their responsibility…

14. But you can tell them how it will help…
Assess their
Effectively set goals
environments
Coaching helps students
Learn time
Get and stay
management
organized
techniques

15. And show them
where to get more
information:
Find out more
today or call
1(888) 718-8886

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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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