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
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
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.
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
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
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.
One of the hardest things for many people with ADHD is to stick with things until they are completed. This is an executive function weakness that you can overcome with the help of a coach. To get you inspired, we encourage you to think about those times you get bored doing something you like to do. Take a page from that experience and try to apply it in one of those situations you have to stick with something you hate!
A lot of people find our site while searching for an ADHD-friendly college. Parents hope to find the perfect program to take their place when their son or daughter heads off to college. There are a host of factors that parents use to judge if a school is appropriate: cost, size and location. There are 5 other criteria you can use to determine if a college is a good fit.
At the risk of sounding like your parents, we want to check in with you about the 4th of July celebrations. Did you make … Read More
We are currently raising money to extend this school-based coaching program for at risk youth for another year. All funds raised this summer will be matched, dollar for dollar, by the Johnson Scholarship Fund (JFS).
The 2012/2013 Shire ADHD Scholarships were announced last week. We are busy working to find coaches for these deserving students so they can get … Read More