Identifying ADHD, Autism, Learning Disabilities
Identifying ADHD, Autism, Learning Disabilities
Autistic adults have much to offer the world, though face different obstacles. With my coaching, we cultivate your strengths while navigating challenges related to sensory needs, social differences, organization, learning and more. My extensive experience working with high-functioning autistic adults equips me to help you discover personalized strategies to thrive.
I understand sensory, communication, and social differences profoundly impact quality of life and learning. We’ll implement coping methods tailored to your needs. Building executive functioning and self-regulation skills is key to managing life’s demands, so we’ll design customized structures that optimize productivity and wellbeing.
My commitment is facilitating growth in every aspect of your life. We’ll pinpoint goals across relationships, career pursuits, personal organization, and interests. I’ll support you in identifying communication approaches that accurately convey your competence and needs.
Together we can transform obstacles into opportunities and neurodiverse abilities into talents, with a focus on practical skill building. Our partnership centers on real world application—effectively navigating workplace complexities, mastering daily living skills, and reaching your full potential.
My goal is to help you continue learning, evolving and thriving throughout adulthood. Let's collaborate to build a personalized plan aligned with your aspirations.
Unleash Your Potential: ADHD & Executive Function Coaching
If ADHD symptoms like disorganization, distraction, and impatience act as barriers between you and academic and career aspirations, I can help. As an Educational Specialist working with neurodivergent learners of all ages for over 15 years, I deeply understand the real-life impact ADHD has on success.
My coaching addresses core ADHD challenges through science-backed strategies tailored to your needs. Regain focus, manage frustrations, improve planning skills, and conquer procrastination obstacles to learning. I’ll collaborate with you to better regulate restlessness and emotional intensity for peak classroom and workplace performance.
Most importantly, I highlight and nurture strengths like creativity, hyperfocus and innovative thinking patterns. By learning to optimize these cognitive gifts, you can increase academic learning capacity and stand out career-wise. I help design personalized systems for excelling on YOUR terms.
Together we can transform the ADHD identity narrative, embracing neurodiversity as a competitive advantage. Unlock ambition by building executive functioning skills critical to achievement. Then pursue education pathways and careers aligned with your talents, curiosity and ideas. Your brightest possible future awaits!
Do conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and/or other learning disabilities (such as dyslexia) make school more of a challenge? Or does generalized or test anxiety prevent you from doing your best? Are the many demands of college life overwhelming sometimes? As an educational specialist and neurodiversity advocate with over 15 years of experience, I deeply understand the unique struggles students face in higher education. I’m here to tell you that you absolutely CAN learn to thrive.
My coaching services provide individualized support for college students with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, or other neurodifferences - although a diagnosis is not necessary for me to work with you. I help develop key executive functioning skills like organization, time management, prioritization, task initiation and completion. I also coach on major transitions like adjusting to college life, living independently, and building social connections.
Additional specialties include helping students communicate needs to professors, implement boundary setting, identify and apply natural strengths, manage school-related stress, and access academic/disability resources. My goal is to guide each student to a rewarding, empowering college experience where they can thrive as their authentic selves.
I draw upon evidence-based strategies and a collaborative, solutions-focused approach to tackle any college-related challenges. Together we can transform what makes you different into what makes you EXTRAORDINARY. Let’s prove the incredible capabilities within neurological differences.
Has a comprehensive assessment identified your child’s learning disabilities, ADHD, autism or other neurodifference needing support? As an educational specialist, I now offer customized coaching for parents on how to best nurture students’ strengths while overcoming any obstacles revealed.
I’ll help you make sense of the testing results and make an action plan based on science-backed recommendations tailored to YOUR child’s specific needs and talents. Together we’ll pinpoint the most appropriate and effective school interventions, therapies, accommodations, skills training strategies and more.
Additional coaching topics include:
- Pursuing special education supports at school
- Decoding IEPs/504 plans
- Forming school staff partnerships
- Advocating for your child
- Fostering healthy parent-child dynamics
- Accessing community supports
- Implementing ideal home learning environments
- Decoding behaviors to identify effective solutions
I’ll be by your side to ensure assessment recommendations translate from paper into REAL positive change for your student. Let’s build on strengths and unlock their incredible capacity!
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