Do you struggle in school?

Coaching Helps ADHD Students Learn, Succeed and Thrive

Do people tell you you’d do fine if you just try harder?

Procrastinating?

Spacing out?

Late?

Interrupting?

Anxious?

ADHD Students are At-Risk Students

35% of ADHD High School Students Drop Out

Drop OutGraduate

Plus ADHD students are more likely to be

suspended (60%),held back (42%) and are less likely to enter (22%) or graduate from (5%) college

Medication is only part of the answer

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

But…

Academic success requires life skills

Medication

Life Skills• Organizatio

n• Time

Management

• Goal Setting

• Focusing• Persistence

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

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

7 life skills are critical to academic success:Scheduling

Goal setting

Confidence

OrganizingFocusing

Prioritizing

Persistence

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

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.

Assess their

environment

s

Effectively set goals

Get and stay organized

Learn time manageme

nt techniquesCoaching

helps

Coaches…Suggest, encourage and guide

Monitor student progress

Provide daily check-ins for structure and accountability

Provide services over the phone or by Skype

Get more information!!

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more." Erica Jong

ADHD coaching can help you succeed in school!

Sign up 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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Headline News, 1/26/2011 and ADHD kids benefit from coaching, CNN, The Chart, 11/12/10