Advice every parent of a new college student with ADHD needs to know
There is a big shift in the relationship between parents and children when a child head off to college. There are new worries for … Read More
California outlaws discrimination of disabled students taking LSAT
Yesterday the disability community scored a major victory in support of testing accommodations when California’s Governor Brown signed bill AB 2122. The bill prohibits … Read More
5 Secrets for Surviving Freshman Year with ADHD
Solid advice for (parents of) new college students with ADHD. Parents, do you have a college freshman that you’re worried about? We asked our … Read More
An ADHD Game Changer: Pacific Northwest Schools Project
As the 2012-2013 School Year gets underway, we are busy matching coaches and students in our Pacific Northwest School’s project. This will be the … Read More
Advice for the Job Searcher with ADHD
Here at Edge we talk a lot about how an ADHD coach can help you learn the skills you need to succeed in school. But what about after you get out of school? In this post, we provide some excellent advice from expert Ned Hallowell on how to get started figuring out what you want to do when you get out of school.
What is an ADHD coach?
We frequently get asked the question, “what is ADHD coaching?” We understand it is a new concept that takes time to understand, so here’s … Read More
Important Information for Parents of Girls with ADHD
For 10 years a UC Berkeley team, led by Stephen Hinshaw, has been following a group of racially and socio-economically diverse group of girls with ADHD in the San Francisco Bay Area. The group was compared to 88 girls of similar backgrounds who do not have ADHD. Some of the study findings were alarming and concerning, Parents should be aware of the special issues and long term effects of ADHD on girls.
ADHD from A to Z covers the bases of being a student with ADHD
In case you missed it, we’ve created a new page for you called ADHD From A to Z. This comprehensive ADHD resource contains all of … Read More
ADHD Olympics
Four years ago we congratulated Michael Phelps on his amazing Olympic medal sweep. This year we are again celebrating him as the most decorated … Read More
Overcoming ADHD Inertia
Most people with ADHD have a million ideas going on in their heads, but often when it comes down to doing them, they get stuck. It is one thing to figure out how to move past boredom when you have a despised, but necessary, task that there is just no getting around doing. But what about those times you have something you want to do, and you’ve even started to work on it, but you get stuck and overwhelmed? Then you are dealing with inertia, not boredom. Here are some tips to help you overcome that inertia.