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This tool can help your student organize their homework time - they can list out the assignments to complete, or list of steps to follow on a certain question, and set small time goals in which to accomplish each task.

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New & Improved!

The Time Timer ® Dry Erase Board is now magnetic! Available as a combined unit including a Time Timer ® MOD visual timer in Charcoal Grey or as an accessory to your existing Time Timer MOD. (Please note that the Time Timer MOD must include a silicone case in order to fit in Dry Erase Board properly.)

The Time Timer Dry Erase Board is an activity and message center for office, home and school. It is perfect for time-sensitive messages, visual schedules, to-do lists and to keep schedules on time.

The Time Timer MOD is a 60-minute visual timer that's portable and easy to use anywhere-from your office desk to the kitchen counter.

Dry Erase markers not included.

Note: To use the Dry Erase Board accessory with the Time Timer MOD - Home Edition, a protective case must be purchased separately to ensure a proper fit.

Additional Details

Benefits

Stay on track by showing exactly what needs to be completed in the time available

Ensure each step in a routine is followed - nothing is missed!

All important topics for a meeting are covered in the time allowed

Features

Convenient caddy to hold markers and supplies

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Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential

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Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential: 8601200652819: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com

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This is a great online parent and student coaching website. They have a facebook group, virtual coaching, and free and paid webinars and parent courses.

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"You've made a big difference in our lives. My daughter and I were reflecting on all the changes that we are grateful to you for: all the new furniture and storage ideas that will keep us organized, replacing the closet doors, so we can see what is inside (brilliant!), granola bars, beef jerky, and I've stopped nagging her to read. We thank you so much!"

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In over 30 years of clinical practice, Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have worked with thousands of children who struggle at home and in school. At the center of their struggles are weak executive skills, and through our writing and now this website, we spotlight these skills...
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"Sanity School ®... was just what I needed and made a big difference for my family. The webinar approach is easy, the recorded tapes are convenient for catch up/make ups, and the format is clear and easy to follow. Sharing with other families experiencing the same daily frustrations gave me both comfort and confidence that I'm not alone or defeated. My house is calmer and the insane times are not so explosive!" -Lori D, US-

"My daughter thanks you. My husband thanks you. And I thank you. I had lost hope in a solution. I was exhausted, frustrated, and afraid. I felt like the worst parent in the world!

ImpactADHD ® was my answer - professionals who'd actually lived/parenting ADHD 24/7. I started out wanting to 'fix my kid.' I ended up rediscovering the joy of being my daughter's mom... Our family is empowered, not only with skills, compassion and resources, but also with hope." - Michelle S, NB, US -

"ImpactADHD ® has been a critical resource to me as a parent of a "complex" child and has gotten me through the last few years with a steady, positive view of complex kids -- and incredibly practical information that is based on the most current thinking about ADHD. In previous years, well-intentioned advice just never seemed to work, and that made me feel terrible about what I was doing. But Elaine and Diane offer something unique and effective. Their digital platform pushes out the latest research, pithy articles that give practical advice, free interviews with experts, and a true, loving understanding that we desperately need. I only wish I had found ImpactADHD ® earlier." - Pamela K, VT, US -

"You have given me one of the greatest gifts of all - the support I've desperately needed for myself and the empowerment to transfer that support to my children with a more positive tone. My family and my doctor have noticed the shift in my attitude and parenting style -- and I owe it all to you. The impact on my relationship with my stepdaughter is profound -- and family members notice it. Managing stress and anxiety has never been a strength of mine, and yet during an extremely stressful time in my life, I'm able to maintain positivity. As a result, my 14 year old finished the semester with a B+ in Algebra, the class she hates the most! You and the ImpactADHD ® program have changed my life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank You." - Stephanie P, GA, US -

"I just had to send a note to tell you both -- thank you. As I evaluated all of the amazing, challenging, motivating, thought-provoking, and transforming moments of the last year, both of you ladies and ImpactADHD ® are on my top 5 list! Because of your fluid efforts to create an accessible format to learn and grow, our home is more equipped and hopeful! Please be encouraged, and thank you both for sharing your hearts, passion, knowledge, and skills." - Tami Faye B, FL, US -

"Not only have I referred every family I've worked with to ImpactADHD ®, I've recommended this invaluable resource to teachers, social workers, guidance counselors and school psychologists, so they can make sure all their families know about it. ImpactADHD is packed full of regularly updated advice, plus great tools and programs (like Sanity School ®) - created by two talented women you can trust - because they've "walked the walk." What a great site! A treasure trove of practical, sensible, results-oriented information." -Jerome Schultz, Ph.D. Clinical Neuropsychologist, Lecturer on Psychology, Harvard Medical School, US-

"No one, absolutely no one, does parent training and coaching better than ImpactADHD ®. As a pediatrician who works specifically with children with ADHD, I recommend ImpactADHD ® to all of the parents in my practice. These women get ADHD families and how to help them like no one else on the planet. The return on an investment in learning what they can teach you will be priceless." - Karin Varblow, MD, Board Certified Pediatrician, McLean VA, US -

ImpactADHD ® was absolutely life-changing for my family and myself. The coaching, group sessions and learning modules are brilliant, with thorough content that is just what parents need to know; and easy to use, especially compared to other programmes I've tried. Group sessions are very well done and easy to attend in person or listen later. Overall, it's just brilliant! I was so inspired by my experience that I asked Elaine and Diane to deliver a live coaching session to a roomful of British parents at an ADHD workshop - over Skype! The interaction was seamless and at the end, the parents in the room were clamouring for more. The mum who received laser coaching moved from optimistic skepticism to stalwart advocate of ImpactADHD ®. It was amazing. ImpactADHD ® makes all the difference! -Cynthia Crossley, ADDSpark, UK-

"Elaine and Diane are phenomenal. They totally know their stuff when it comes to parenting challenging kids, and they bring in all the best experts to share their wisdom. ImpactADHD ® has tons of great content, and their training programs will make your life easier and your kids happier." - Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA, author "Understand Your Brain, Get More Done" and "More Attention, Less Deficit"- West Chester, PA, US -

"As a pediatrician, I know many parents struggle with how to handle behavior challenges with their children. Sometimes they can't afford the time or money to get support. But training for parents has been proven to make a difference for children and their families, and support from coaches can improve your confidence and reduce your stress. ImpactADHD ® provides the help you need, and offers tools that work at an affordable price." - Kristen Stuppy, MD, Pediatrician, Kansas City, KS, US -

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First-Then visual schedule application is designed for caregivers to provide positive behavior support. For individuals with communication needs, developmental delays, Autism or those who benefit from a structured environment; visual schedules serve to increase independence and lower anxiety during transitions through different activities.

This app was designed for use for the iPhone and iPod. If you are looking for a version that works on these devices as well as the iPad, please check out: FTVS HD: First Then Visual Schedule HD

Fully Customizable!
*Use your own photos or add photos from the built in Internet image search feature.
*Record your own voice to the images.
*Create as many schedules as you need.
*Change the order of a schedule, anytime!
*Checklist feature.
*"Save and Share" schedules via "File Sharing" on iTunes.
* Backup schedules via iCloud.
* Email a PDF copy of a schedule to print off at home.

Visual schedules provide positive behavior support through the use of images that show daily events(i.e. morning routine or therapy schedule) or steps needed to complete a specific activity, (i.e. using the restroom).

User can *record their own voice*, *add their own images* from their computer, internet image importer or iPhone/ iTouch camera, or simply use images from the application's stock library to create a schedule. Flexibility of obtaining images allows for schedules to be created "on-the-go" to help transition through unexpected changes in a routine.
Within a saved schedule, as many images as needed can be used to create the steps needed to complete a task. There is also the option of choosing different formats for use in each of the schedules. Format options can be changed at a moments notice depending upon the preference of the user:

*THREE DIFFERENT FORMATS:*

*FULL SCREEN*- In this format a larger image appears on the screen. User accesses next image on schedule by simply swiping screen to the left.

*FIRST-THEN SCREEN*- This format shows two images side by side with an arrow between images to guide the sequence of the activity. This is often a visual that is given to portray conditional statements. For example, "First bathroom, then computer". This helps let the user know what is coming up next. Split screen can be read left to right with captions underneath each image, or top to bottom of screen with schedule scrolling down to see next image in the schedule.

*LIST SCREEN*- This screen allows images to be listed in a list format where four images are placed on schedule. This is great for a schedule for a child that is very familiar with a system of picture exchange or is not as easily distracted by upcoming activities.

*VOICE CAN BE ADDED TO IMAGES *and added to the images to help further reinforce schedule and to aid with receptive and expressive language acquisition. Please note, that if you have an iTouch that you will need to purchase a microphone to record sound.

*CHECKLIST FEATURE* can be turned "on" or "off" within the "settings" menu. You can add a checkmark by a task to visually indicate that the task is completed.

*ADD YOUR OWN PHOTOS* by using the iPhone's built in camera or download images from your personal computer to the camera roll or use the apps internet image importer.

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*STOCK IMAGE LIBRARY* consists of common images that can be immediately accessed to create schedules.

In addition, for reference we have added three example schedules (contain no audio-output) that can be deleted or edited.

We at *Good Karma Applications* have an intimate understanding of the needs of those leading exceptional lives. It is our mission to provide low-cost, effective applications to that special group of individuals. We hope that our applications will enhance the lives of those leading exceptional lives, and in doing so, provide support for those who love and care for them.

Version 1.1.6

In this release of First-Then we have added new features and fixed previously existing bugs and issues:

- Feature: Ability to change the name of a schedule
- Feature: Ability to set an image of a schedule
- Feature: Ability to reorder schedules
- Feature: Import/Export option - in the cloud
- Feature: PDF Export and E-Mail of selected schedules
- Feature: NEW! Settings menu - including the Checkbox option, backup/restore options, PDF Generate and email option
- Feature: When creating new events - the name of the selected image will be pre-inserted as the title
- Bugfix: after editing - the title of Step was not being refreshed
- Bugfix: display issue when rotating device under iPod
- Bugfix: File Sharing import/export crashes and issues - fixed
- Bugfix: duplicate images used to appear after import/export - fixed

GREAT App For Everyday Use!

I purchased this app to have a portable, multifunctional "First Then" tool for my 5 year old, who is impacted by Autism. This app met and exceeded my expectations, and the addition of the visual schedule makes difficult transitions in public settings far easier to endure. We've been able to ditch the cumbersome PECS now, and my little guy enjoys using the iPod to navigate through his daily activities. This app is almost unbelievably affordable too for the functionality and versatility it brings to the user (VERY user friendly!). The developer has answered my questions personally through email (I tend to be a little technically challenged, ha!) and is incredibly friendly when replying to my questions. Thank you, Good Karma, for yet another amazing app (I purchased My Choices previously with incredible success). I have found your apps to be so in tune with exactly what my child needs....can't wait to see what comes next!

Awesome app

Love the visual schedule, I previously bought the other visual schedule app that was 5 times as much and this one works so much better.

I also like the choice if you do this then you get this. Our teacher at school has a pec card at school that says this same thing. No longer do we have to carry pecs we can make one on the iPod touch immediately!

Love not being dependent on PECs or our speech teacher!

Great app!

I just bought this app and already I simply love it! I'm an autism teacher and can make schedules on other software, but this app makes it so easy and quick to do. It interfaces with you photos and with Google images and allows you to record. Plus you can send a pdf file! I will use this both for my son and for my classroom!

The developer, Good Karma Applications, Inc, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.

No Details Provided

The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.

Information

Seller

Good Karma Applications, Inc

Compatibility

iPhone

Requires iOS 3.2 or later.

iPod touch

Requires iOS 3.2 or later.

Mac

Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Family Sharing

Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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MacLife App Showdown Winner - Featured in iPhone Life: New Year New You - Huffington Post: 6 Helpful Apps to Make You a Better Person - Time Management Magazine Top 20 - Technology site Redmond Pie called it the "Ultimate $5 App" - Fast Company "To Nail Your New Year's Resolutions, Quantify Your Self" MacLife: "You can tweak and add to your heart's content."

Three categories are already set up in Habits Pro:
- Live a Healthy Life
- Be Social
- Exercise Your Mind
- Bonus: some ideas to get you going!

Habits Pro = Intuitive Insightful Effective

Features
- Unlimited category screens for organizing your habits
- Visual calendar
- Goals and tasks
- Custom icons (250+) or photos for your goals
- Number items, track weight, steps, BP
- Select active weekdays for recurring tasks
- Daily reminder
- Daily, weekly, and monthly graphs
- Interactive graphs with many details
- Statistics
- Rename categories, labels
- Set up your custom items
- Password protection
- Backup and sharing via Dropbox and Email
- Powerful data export options

Item types available in Habits Pro: Yes / No, Time, Counters, Numbers, Visual scales with icons, values, and labels

Review from US App Store
I love this app and have used it daily for a year now! I made a "work out" category so I can set goals for how many minutes I want to do each week of cardio, abs, arms, etc as well as how many days I want to exercise each week. I use that category the most but I made categories for work and home as well.

Version 7.5.0

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

iPhone X format supported, FaceID security

Love the adaptability & simplicity!

I've had this app for several years and continue to use it. In fact, I just started using it to track something else. Two improvements I'd like to see would be the ability to attach images, and better downloading of graphs. One final plus is that there isn't a monthly or annual fee.

Numeric Keypad Problems

This is a really useful tool when it's working. Really great. The closest iOS match for an app I used to use on the PC way back when called LifeForm...only much more convenient to have on a portable device. That said, for some reason it'll go through stretches where the numeric keypad entry ceases to work on the lowest row (the row with the decimal, zero, and backspace). Really frustrating and makes inputting things like fractions of a pound, etc, impossible. Rotating the device (in this case a 9.7 inch iPad Pro) causes the lowest row to become inaccessible in landscape mode and a complete 180 to the opposite portrait orientation results in the row disappearing completely. Would love to see a fix for what I think is normally a five star app to put it back at 5 stars. But in its current form it's just not as useful. If there are ever any more updates another great addition would be more options to plot more data sets against each other on the same graph so a user could see, for example, the impact minutes of daily cardio have to daily weight gain or loss, etc. Anyway, love this app and haven't given up hope on it yet but the numeric keypad issue currently makes it mostly unusable and that's a real shame because it's such a great tool when it's working.

Use it Every Day

I have been using this app since 2012. It is hands-down the best health tracker out there. It is so versatile. All of my data and notes are still available for me to go back to. I use it every day and I keep finding new ways to use it. It is part of my morning routine. I love the versatility. I use it for tracking my devotion times in the morning, even putting my notes in it. I also use it for tracking my health habits. I love the graphs. I can see how my weight trends and how it relates to how much water I am drinking and how much exercise I am getting. I use it for tracking my special needs son's behavior and both of the kids' chores. It has so many uses all in one app. Thanks!

The developer, Track & Share Apps, LLC, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

No Details Provided

The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.

Information

Seller

Track & Share Apps, LLC

Compatibility

iPhone

Requires iOS 10.0 or later.

iPad

Requires iPadOS 10.0 or later.

iPod touch

Requires iOS 10.0 or later.

Mac

Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Family Sharing

Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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Does your child get overwhelmed with the volume of work that they are assigned? Maybe the act of getting started is just too difficult or overwhelming. Or perhaps they feel that what they need to accomplish is too big or vague. Every child comes to the table with their own reasons for avoiding homework. Compound that with the fact that most students were never taught HOW to do homework that's it's no wonder they want to avoid it!
[Read: Does Your Student Have a Personal Homework Profile?]

While student's can't control how or when teachers assign work, with help they CAN figure out how to make what they CAN control work in the best way possible. We have to find a way to tap into each student's own unique practices to help them get work done and in an effective manner. I have a lot of time-tested tips and tools for homework that truly work, and one of the best is the color-coded homework board!

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How to Help a Teen with Homework Trouble - Order Out of Chaos

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I hear comments like this regularly:

I hate planners.
I don't need a planner.
I just don't like to use a planner.

I know, I know. You really don't want to use a planner.

But you do need to figure out some way to manage the details.

Seriously, I'll break it down and help make it simple and straight forward. I know because I do this with students all the time and it works. The nuances I will describe will make a BIG difference.

Look, students who aren't naturally organized tend to get overwhelmed with details, and planners are all about details. Therefore it's important to have a simple and clean system. Unfortunately, the systems we are often taught are too complicated.

Anyhow, forgive me because this is a long video, and trust me, it's boring. In fact, I almost put myself to sleep. Just kidding, but it is in-depth and should prove extremely valuable.

Plan on pressing pause a lot as you get your planner "front-loaded" for the school year. Trust me, this upfront effort will end up saving you a lot of time and frustration throughout the year. Check out the video.

Here are some of the most important takeaways:

1. Print yearly planners, post them for reference, tape one in your planner. Tape your schedule in there too while you're at it.

2. Use a monthly planner with lines in the boxes.

3. Get your entire schedule into the planner now, for the entire year. This is called "front-loading." It saves a lot of time and hassle in the long run. Hi-lite every single day off. Enter birthdays, appointments, and activities that you know about, now.

4. Thin out the planner. Get rid of every single page you don't need. Keep it simple.

5. Get a desk calendar to put on the wall. Enter only bigger events into it - you don't need as many details on this one.

6. Use shorthand in order to fit your info into the smaller boxes. Write assignments on the day they are due. Put the time first when applicable.

7. Learn to "backwards plan."

8. Dog-ear to simplify finding the right page.

9. Self-advocate. If they expect you to "use the same planner everyone else uses," tell them you've tailored a system to your brain and that you need to do what works for you.

10. The one thing I forgot to mention in the vid, sharpie your name on the front AND back so it comes back to you if it gets lost.

11. Get off to a strong start with front-loading your planner thoroughly. Try not to get into the swimming upstream pattern. It's extremely difficult to dig yourself out. So take an hour and do this! You got this, you rock, good luck!

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Video transcript:
Hey, this is Seth with SethPerler.com. Did you hear about the buffalo who sent his boy to college? When his son left he said, " bison. " Haha, pretty good, huh? Cheesy, I know.

How's it going? So I'm here today talk to you about planners for people who hate them. If you hate planners, you're in the right place. There are lots of websites and videos all over YouTube about planners that talk about how to use them, but they're all for highly organized people by highly organized people. And the thing is that these left-brain, linear sequential structured, naturally organized people love these things. They like to feel organized because it gives them a good sense of control. They feel good when they have these systems, and they're able to take these systems and run with them. They're able to do tremendous amounts of detail with all this stuff.

Guess what? If you're watching these videos, you're probably not that person. This is for students who hate planners. You are not into it. It's not that you don't like planners, it's that you don't like feeling like you have to manage minute details that don't matter to you. That's really what it comes down to. A lot of times the way that we're taught to use these things is not congruent with what we need. So let me set out the way for you to do this. By the way, even if you hate planners, you do have to learn to use them because like anything you want to do in life, this helps. And I want you, and everybody wants you, to be able to live the life you want to live.

In order to do anything you want to in life, you have to do things you don't want to do, including planning. You just have to have some way of being able to manage tasks and time. Again, you have to be able to manage tasks and time. We have to be able to chunk it down into small enough items that don't feel overwhelming. Me, you, right-brain people, disorganized people, people who are creative outside the box thinkers: we're not good with perceiving time or time management. The details can be very overwhelming. So I'm going to show you what I do with my students. I'm telling you this because it works, and I'm going to tell you in the simplest way possible. It's going to be a bit of a long video, but get ready to press pause because if you're looking for how to use a planner in a way that works for you, I'm going to explain some details to you that are really going to help.

First of all, what you want to do is print out your yearly calendar. This is the calendar for the local school district. You'll want to print one to four of them. You want one for the refrigerator, one for the bedroom, one for the office, and one to tape inside your planner. You're literally going to tape it inside there. We're going to cut off the edges like this, cut off all the edges, trim it down so it will fit in the planner, and then tape it in there. Middle school, high school, college, whatever complex schedules, tape it into the inside of your planner so that it's always there. This is called front-loading. Everything that you need for the entire school year, get it done now so you never have to think about it again. You want to front-load your planner and get it all done. Plop all the important dates in there. The next thing is right-brained people don't like a lot of stuff. You may have a lot of stuff, but "stuff" is overwhelming. So what you want to do is get rid of every single page from your planner that you don't need. In this case, I literally took out 11 pages from the planner making it now very thin and very manageable. As far as this calendar is concerned, you want to take all of the pages off up until the date where you're at. Right now is August in 2014, so we want to get all the rest of the pages gone. Bye-bye, it's all gone.

If you want to get a monthly planner, this is a great example. The only thing I don't like about this planner is the metal because it can get crushed in the backpack and make it annoyingly difficult to open. Left-brain, linearly sequential structure, organized people don't usually have that problem. We do. If it gets crushed in your backpack, you're a very right-brain person and that may be a bit of a difficulty to you. If you can find one that stapled rather than a spiral that might be better. So all I have here is July through the end of the year, I'm going to get rid of July, I don't need it anymore. Now, I have August through December. Open up to August. Here we go. This is monthly again. This is not weekly. Okay, you want to use a monthly calendar preferably with lines. The only problem is that you have to learn shorthand. So I'll discuss shorthand in just a moment. Now we basically have about six pages in this planner. You can also get an academic calendar that is like this.

Why don't you want to use a weekly one? Well, here's an example of a weekly one. By the way, I often will cut the planner and dog ear it right from the planner itself. I'll just cut it with this scissor so that you can open up right to the page that you need. This one happens to be monthly and weekly, Anyhow the point is, the reason you don't want monthly and weekly is it's too many blocks of time. Look at that, the thing is like a novel. Again, if you're a left-brain person you're probably not watching this point, which is great because this is not for them. This is for right-brain, outside the box, divergent thinkers and you don't want to be having a novel for your planner, you want the simple six-page one I was showing you before. There are only 9-10 months in a school year, basically half of August through May. There are 36 weeks plus the 10 months of the school year here. So that's 46 pages to manage, plus these planners give you a lot of clutter in the back. Although it might be cool to have the periodic table and geometry stuff I guarantee you, if you're watching this video, you are not the type of person who reads this stuff. You don't read the school rules at the beginning of the book. Rip it out or just don't use these ones. The other thing is that these are visually cluttered. The planners that schools will give you are usually visually cluttered. You may have to advocate for yourself and tell the school, "I'm not using this," and you may run into some problems with them. They might say, " you have to use this one because this is the one that we use because it's the way we do it." Advocate yourself and tell them you're working with the coach and say the coach said, " don't do that. " It's a lot of colors that the visually distracting and have famous quotes that frankly are also visually distracting. I do not recommend these for the students that I work with. All you need is simple, black and white, clean, easy to see, a planner that serves the purpose of planning. That all you want.

Alright, in your planner you're going to want to take your year calendar, and you are going to want to highlight every single day off for the entire school year. What that means is that your planner is going to look like this. You're going to go through the calendar with a fine-tooth comb and highlight every day off. This is November of 2014 and in this school district, they have the 14th off and they have the entire week for Thanksgiving off. This all done and it feels really good for students to be able to see this. Trust me. I do this all the time as soon as we go through the entire year, get the whole planner done. It feels really good to know that you start saying "Also in terms of front-loading, we'll write in the days from the previous month the 31st or 30th of October and so on in a different color so that visually it stands out. And then you can pick when you're ready to use November or when you're done with October etcetera. You want to do this for the entire school year. And then the only problem is you don't have as much space as you do on the weekly planner, they give you tons of lines. So what you're going to want to do is learn to write shorthand, and here's an example of the shorthand. I will put a photograph of this on the blog post so you can go ahead and look there for photos of everything. Hopefully, you can see this. So for example, for Math " wow, that's a lot of days off," and you can really look forward to these days off. M: page 65 1 through 21 high," so it's very short. " LA: the draft is due." Science, " SCI lab 14 is due," " 4 p.m. Dentist. " Any time you put something in your planner, you want to put it on a date it's due, not the date you're given the assignment. Now, what you can also do is backwards planning. You put, for example, you have a test this day, you write it in on the day that you have a test, and then you backwards plan and write in the days that you intend to study for the test. Now if you're a right-brain person chances are if you write in that you're going to study four times, you're probably not going to study four times. You want to account for that and plan for 5 or 6 times that you're going to study and just know that you're not going to study a couple of those times and be okay with it. A lot of times it's better to over plan. It depends on your personality but consider that. You're going to put it on the day that it's due, or that you're doing the activity, then backwards plan. The other thing is that anything that's associated with the time, like in this case there's a dentist appointment at 4, you want to put the time before you write what the item is. That's because visually the eye is going to see the number, and you want to be aware of the time first because that's a priority and it's not flexible. Always put the time first. Finally, you want to color-code your calendar. You don't need to, but a lot of people you might want to have some kind of coding system because it makes it easier visually. You are probably a very visual person and this makes things easier for you as well.

You might start with the weekends or holidays, and you're going to go ahead highlight all the days off for the entire school year. I'm starting with weekends. There's all my Saturdays. In this case, the school start on the 21st. So you're going to highlight all your days, get it all done. And then any time there's a big event, like here, you can write huge. The cool thing is that you can still write on top of that. So for Halloween, you can put an icon of a pumpkin or something, and you still have room to write on top of it that says, " 6 p.m. Soccer ". Highlight all the days and get everything in your calendar that you can. If you have things that are odd about your calendar, for example, if you have a late start day or certain weird times of classes on certain days, or if you have extracurricular activities, get everything on to the calendar that you possibly can for the entire school year. If you know that you have a certain activity that goes every Thursday night from 6 to 8 until November, get it in the calendar now. You want to front-load as much as you can, it's a lot of work at the beginning but saves you time and frustration for the entire rest of the school year. You really want to get into the habit.

One of the worst things that students experience is the "swimming upstream syndrome." You start to get a little behind, usually, this starts to happen around the second or third week of school, but it doesn't become evident until about the sixth week of school. So you're starting to get behind around the third week, and then around the sixth week, suddenly something happens: a report card comes out, a grade gets back to you, you have D and F, and big red flags come up. You do not want to get into that pattern, help yourself out. I do recommend you put these on your wall. These are really cheap go ahead and grab a couple and throw it on the wall in your bedroom or your office, but I don't recommend using them with thumbtacks because you want to be able to pull it down every once in a while to work with it. If you're doing a lot of work, like if I was highlighting this, I wouldn't actually do it on the wall, I pull it down and do it on the table. Having these little nails and a hammer and put it up and then hit it into the wall. It'll stay there for the entire school year.

I think I covered most of what I was going to say if I forgot anything, I'll go ahead and get it in the show in the show notes on the blog and I want to thank you very much for your support. And I want to wish you an awesome school year. You got this. Of course, you'll have some ups and downs, but it's all good. You got this.

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I hear comments like this regularly: I hate planners. I don't need a planner. I just don't like to use a planner. I know, I know. You really don't want to use a planner. But you do need to figure out some way to manage the details.

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These are the soft copies of all the resources from Peg Dawson's book Smart but Scattered. She has planning checklists and tools you can use with your student.

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A great game to build attention.

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Visual Routine Templates from Penny Williams, parent coach

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Visual Routine Templates from Penny Williams, parent coach

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Here is a link to a game that can help build sustained attention.

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Supreme Spot the Difference Book for Adults : 50 Picture Puzzles: Spot the Difference Game World. This Spot the Difference Game Is the Ultimate the ... and Challenging Levels. This Mind Challenging

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Supreme Spot the Difference Book for Adults : 50 Picture Puzzles: Spot the Difference Game World. This Spot the Difference Game Is the Ultimate the ... and Challenging Levels. This Mind Challenging [GAMEZ, SENIOR] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Supreme Spot the Difference Book for Adults : 50 Picture Puzzles: Spot the Difference Game World.

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Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential

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Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential: 9781609182298: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com

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The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home

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Are you smart, scattered, and struggling? You're not alone. Cutting-edge research shows that today's 24/7 wired world and the growing demands of work and family life may simply max out the part of the brain that manages complex tasks. That's especially true for those lacking strong ex...

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Executive Functions: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved

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Executive Functions: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved: 9781462545933: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com

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Streamlined task manager

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"For pushing the iPad down a path untraveled by other apps, and making us dream of an iOS experience that's fully keyboard-optimized, Things 3.6 is the MacStories Selects "Best App Update" of 2018."

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"For pushing the iPad down a path untraveled by other apps, and making us dream of an iOS experience that's fully keyboard-optimized, Things 3.6 is the MacStories Selects "Best App Update" of 2018."

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Mindfulness App for Elementary Students 

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Mindfulness App for Elementary Students 

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This is a resource app for you to share with your child to help teach skills such as problem solving, self-control, planning, and task persistence.

Laugh and learn as you help a Sesame Street monster friend calm down and solve everyday challenges. This bilingual (English and Spanish), research-based app helps your child learn Sesame's "Breathe, Think, Do" strategy for problem-solving. Tap and touch to help the monster friend take deep breaths, think of plans, and try them out! Your child will enjoy silly animations and playful interactions as she is exposed to important emotional vocabulary, a calm breathing technique, personalized encouragements, and more!

Features:
* Explore five interactive activities with a unique, everyday challenge
* Tap, pop bubbles, and more to help the monster breathe, think, and do to solve problems and feel better
* Personalize encouraging phrases that your child will hear as they help the monster think of a plan
* "Breathe with the Monster" activity to help children practice taking deep breaths to calm down
* Robust Parent Section with great resources for navigating everyday challenges with your young child

Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame is intended for parents and caregivers to use with their young children (ages 2-5).

This app is part of Sesame Street's Little Children, Big Challenges initiative, which aims to provide tools to help children build skills for resilience, and overcome everyday challenges and more stressful situations and transitions. You can access other Sesame Street resilience materials online at sesamestreet.org/challenges

About Us:
Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit educational organization that revolutionized children's media with the landmark Sesame Street. Learn more at www.sesameworkshop.org

More levels

I love this app for my son but I wish there were more "levels" so he would want to keep playing to unlock more scenarios 🤷‍♀️ once he unlocked the few there he was done with it 🤦‍♀️ but he was calm while playing.

Great for school psychologists and educators

As a practicing school psychologist I use this with all of my elementary school students. During our sessions we focus on de-escalation techniques, mindful practices, cognitive distortions and realities, solution-oriented approaches, and conflict resolution. This app teaches ALL of that in a child-friendly and engaging format. I have recommended this app to many of my colleagues and recommend it to any educator or parent wishing to enhance the aforementioned skills.

Nice when it works and isn't crashing

Having a problem with crashing on my iOS device. When it works it's a nice tool for teaching my newly 3yr old, deep breathing, self awareness, problem solving, problems, and managing himself. I wish 1. It didn't crash so dang much and 2. There were more examples of the monster getting upset and finding a solution, and 3. Less ask a gown up for help...example: monster building a bock tower that falls. His options are, wider base, two separate towers, ask an adult. The monster could as a friend .

The developer, Sesame Street, indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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‎This is a resource app for you to share with your child to help teach skills such as problem solving, self-control, planning, and task persistence. Laugh and learn as you help a Sesame Street monster friend calm down and solve everyday challenges. This bilingual (English and Spanish), research-base...

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My life Meditation App: Stop, Breathe, and Think

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My life Meditation App: Stop, Breathe, and Think

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‎Smiling Mind is Australia’s leading digital-led, prevention focussed mental health not-for-profit and the innovators behind Australia’s most trusted mental wellbeing app. The Smiling Mind App is a free tool, developed by psychologists and educators and downloaded by millions of people.. Programs…

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Offers subject tutoring or executive functioning coaching for elementary and middle school students

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Seth Perler Executive Function Coaching 

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Middle school or rising 9th students only

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Our old TLC specialist, Kathy Martin, works for this group. They do K-12 executive functioning coaching.

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Executive Function Coaching - Essig Education Group

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Get started with Executive Function Coaching today! At Essig Education Group, our courses range from K-12 through Adulthood. Course topics may include K-12 Weekly Coaching, College Essay Writing, and adult courses. Meet our team of passionate Executive Function coaches and get started Rewriting Smar

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This practice is in Alexandria, VA and does in person executive functioning coaching

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Laurie and Kim have extensive experience with public, private and parochial schools in the Northern Virginia and D.C. area. They maintain private client practices addressing individual student and adult issues for achieving academic and personal success through greater life balance.

Below are our recent presentations:

Roadblocks & Remedies - GW Community School, Alexandria, VA | April 29, 2014. Click here for the list of resources from this presentation.

2013 Annual International Conference on ADHD (produced by CHADD - Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) - Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area | November 7-9, 2013

"Roadblocks & Remedies: Coaching AD/HD Adolescents and Adults Around Life's Obstacles." For more detailed information about the conference, click here. We will be speaking with our collegue, Becky Wheeler ( NewFocusCoach.com).

It's About Time: Helping You and Your Student Manage Your Most Precious, Increasingly Scarce, Resource - George Mason High School, Falls Church, VA | October 2, 2013 at 7pm

2012 CHADD LIVE (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder nationwide annual conference) - 25 Years of Making a Difference: What Coaches Can Say That Parents Cannot - San Francisco, CA | November 8-10, 2012

Learning and the Brain conference: Web-Connected Minds: How Technology Transforms Brains, Teaching and Attention (Session moderator) - Arlington VA | May 4-6, 2012

Teacher in-service - The Field School, Washington DC | August 2012

FUTURE QUEST 2011 - George Mason University, Fairfax, VA | November 19, 2011

This presentation is titled "Surviving the Fallout: What are Some of the Roadblocks to a Successful Transition to College and What to Do if Your Student Comes Home." Where is it written that all students must follow the same path and timeline after high school? In our highly achievement-oriented communities, there is a tendency to overemphasize academics and athletics to the detriment of development of non-academic/athletic components of success beyond high school. This workshop will cover some of the topics (social and life skills) that college counselors, parents, and teachers often shy away from discussing but that are critical to a successful transition to college. It will also look at what happens when that transition is not successful and how parents can help their students carve out alternative paths to success.

2011 CHADD LIVE (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder nationwide annual conference) - Academics and ADHD: Coaching Adolescents & Young Adult - Orlando, FL | November 12, 2011

Coaching young adults with ADHD is a multi-faceted process that provides a valuable service: executive skill support while these students mature, develop and learn the management skills necessary for academic and life success. Supporting a young adult's efforts to attain their goals is dependent on the coach building a positive rapport with their client. A panel of coaches who work in different settings will provide a birds-eye view into building rapport, share coaching tips, and describe how they maintain this relationship over the course of weeks, months, or years.

"It's About Time!" Organization and Time-Management Skills - Oakwood School, Alexandria, VA | October 5, 2011

"Race to Nowhere" Screening and Discussion Facilitation - Bishop Ireton High School, Alexandria, VA | August 31, 2011

The Bishop Ireton PTO presented the movie, "Race to Nowhere" and Kim and Laurie facilitated the post-screening discussion with attendees.
Other Past Presentations
PROJECT DISCOVERY-A Statewide drop-out prevention program, Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS-Parent Involvement Office

JEFFERSON HOUSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Alexandria

THOMAS EDISON HIGH SCHOOL Fairfax County

ST. RITA'S Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT RESOURCE CENTER

FORT HUNT ELEMENTARY Fairfax County

MOUNT DANIEL ELEMENTARY Falls Church

TOURRETTE'S ASSOCIATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON Annual meeting

NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE Alexandria campus

In addition, over the course of the last 9 academic years, we have done presentations, workshops and/or teacher in-service at the following locations: Parent Resource Centers for Alexandria, Arlington, and Fairfax; St Stephens and St Agnes School, Browne Academy, Alexandria Country Day School, Waynewood Elementary, Tuckahoe Elementary.

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Laurie and Kim have extensive experience with public, private and parochial schools in the Northern Virginia and D.C. area. They maintain private client practices addressing individual student and adult issues for achieving academic and personal success through greater life balance. Below are our recent presentations: Roadblocks & Remedies - GW Community School, Alexandria, VA | April 29, 2014.

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Website for "Get Ready, Do, Done" strategy

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Website for "Get Ready, Do, Done" strategy

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Executive Function | Cognitive Connections

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Cognitive Connections is home to the award winning 360 Thinking Method. Our programs include the Time Tracker Program and the Get Ready * Do *Done Method. We provide executive function therapy and evaluations and are internationally known for our seminars on executive function skills.

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Spanish Speaking Families: Participate in Unstuck Research
Familias Hispanohablantes: Participar en un estudio de Unstuck
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Curricula for both elementary and middle school aged students

Online implenter training modules

Free videos

Online parent training

Free supplemental materials (YouTube Channel and posters)

Unstuck is for children who struggle with executive functioning. Unstuck is a language mediated intervention, although it contains extensive visual supports which can be adapted for use with many different types of children.

Research shows that Unstuck helps children with autism or ADHD become more flexible problem solvers, with better abilities to follow directions, make transitions, and avoid meltdowns and negativity. It also helps reduce parent stress and creates calmer classrooms.

Further research needs to be done on a broader group of people with executive function challenges.

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The Unstuck intervention (curriculum) can be delivered by school based personnel and/or community based clinicians such as:

Teachers

Speech and language therapists

Counselors

Social workers

Psychologists

Occupational therapists

Paraeducators

Tutors

Parents can create an Unstuck home:

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Unstuck from Early Childhood through Early Adulthood

Ages 4-6

Ages 8-11

Ages 11-15

Ages 14-22

Curriculum
In Development

Curriculum and Online Training Coming Soon

Video: The importance of the Unstuck philosophy

In the video below, Julia Bascom speaks to the importance of the Unstuck philosophy: Understanding your strengths and things you need to work on so that you can seek accommodations and supports.

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Implementers

Do you want to improve classroom management and build a common language of self regulation in your school? Are you working with a child who is stuck on an overwhelming feeling or situation? Do you have clients who are struggling to be flexible in social situations?

Families

Does your child struggle with changes in routine, working independently or overwhelming feelings?

"Unstuck has been a lifesaver for our family"

Here's what parents say they learned...

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Here's what kids say they learned...

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"Being able to have multiple plans because if I don't have multiple plans I get stuck. If I have multiple plans I can get a little of what I want, rather than not at all. In most situations that's better."

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"This is exactly the type of intervention needed to support our academically higher but dysregulated kiddos with ASD and ADHD. I appreciate the structure the curriculum provides."

Here's what community providers say...

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Unstuck and On Target | Executive Function

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A research-based intervention for children with executive function difficulties that helps develop more flexible problem solving skills.

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Order Out of Chaos- Student and Parent Coaching 

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Rising 9th students only

Offers parent coaching services

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"Time management had always been a challenge for our daughter, and we determined that the bulk of her issues were the result of not keeping up with her work. So I contacted Leslie Josel at the recommendation of a friend, and she has been a Godsend!"

- Maureen C.

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"Time management had always been a challenge for our daughter, and we determined that the bulk of her issues were the result of not keeping up with her work. So I contacted Leslie Josel at the recommendation of a friend, and she has been a Godsend!" - Maureen C.

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Tera Sumpter, SLP who specializes in cognitive processing and executive functions. Great resource for working memory and planning support.

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Tera Sumpter, SLP who specializes in cognitive processing and executive functions. Great resource for working memory and planning support.

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Intervention at Seeds of Learning™ Clinics

At Seeds of Learning™ LLC, we provide specialized wholistic cognitive-based treatment for children with speech, language, literacy, executive functioning and other learning disabilities.

Getting to the root cause of the learning challenge is our mission.

Learn more about our learning process, professional development offerings, and education programs.

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At Seeds of Learning™ LLC, we provide specialized wholistic cognitive-based treatment for children with speech, language, literacy, executive functioning and other learning disabilities. Getting to the root cause of the learning challenge is our mission. Learn more about our learning process, professional development offerings, and education programs.

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Destini Ann Davis, parent coach with great tips on emotional regulation

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Destini Ann Davis, parent coach with great tips on emotional regulation

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"I just had to send a note to tell you both -- thank you. As I evaluated all of the amazing, challenging, motivating, thought-provoking, and transforming moments of the last year, both of you ladies and ImpactADHD ® are on my top 5 list! Because of your fluid efforts to create an accessible format to learn and grow, our home is more equipped and hopeful! Please be encouraged, and thank you both for sharing your hearts, passion, knowledge, and skills." - Tami Faye B, FL, US -

"Not only have I referred every family I've worked with to ImpactADHD ®, I've recommended this invaluable resource to teachers, social workers, guidance counselors and school psychologists, so they can make sure all their families know about it. ImpactADHD is packed full of regularly updated advice, plus great tools and programs (like Sanity School ®) - created by two talented women you can trust - because they've "walked the walk." What a great site! A treasure trove of practical, sensible, results-oriented information." -Jerome Schultz, Ph.D. Clinical Neuropsychologist, Lecturer on Psychology, Harvard Medical School, US-

"No one, absolutely no one, does parent training and coaching better than ImpactADHD ®. As a pediatrician who works specifically with children with ADHD, I recommend ImpactADHD ® to all of the parents in my practice. These women get ADHD families and how to help them like no one else on the planet. The return on an investment in learning what they can teach you will be priceless." - Karin Varblow, MD, Board Certified Pediatrician, McLean VA, US -

ImpactADHD ® was absolutely life-changing for my family and myself. The coaching, group sessions and learning modules are brilliant, with thorough content that is just what parents need to know; and easy to use, especially compared to other programmes I've tried. Group sessions are very well done and easy to attend in person or listen later. Overall, it's just brilliant! I was so inspired by my experience that I asked Elaine and Diane to deliver a live coaching session to a roomful of British parents at an ADHD workshop - over Skype! The interaction was seamless and at the end, the parents in the room were clamouring for more. The mum who received laser coaching moved from optimistic skepticism to stalwart advocate of ImpactADHD ®. It was amazing. ImpactADHD ® makes all the difference! -Cynthia Crossley, ADDSpark, UK-

"Elaine and Diane are phenomenal. They totally know their stuff when it comes to parenting challenging kids, and they bring in all the best experts to share their wisdom. ImpactADHD ® has tons of great content, and their training programs will make your life easier and your kids happier." - Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA, author "Understand Your Brain, Get More Done" and "More Attention, Less Deficit"- West Chester, PA, US -

"As a pediatrician, I know many parents struggle with how to handle behavior challenges with their children. Sometimes they can't afford the time or money to get support. But training for parents has been proven to make a difference for children and their families, and support from coaches can improve your confidence and reduce your stress. ImpactADHD ® provides the help you need, and offers tools that work at an affordable price." - Kristen Stuppy, MD, Pediatrician, Kansas City, KS, US -

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ImpactParents | Impact Parents | Helping parents help complex kids: Training, Coaching, Support

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"Sanity School ®... was just what I needed and made a big difference for my family. The webinar approach is easy, the recorded tapes are convenient for catch up/make ups, and the format is clear and easy to follow. Sharing with other families experiencing the same daily frustrations gave me both comfort and confidence that I'm not alone or defeated.

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ADHD and Executive Function Crash Course for Families with Elementary and Middle School Students

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ADHD and Executive Function Crash Course for Families with Elementary and Middle School Students

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This webinar is with Educational Connections Founder Ann Dolin, M.Ed., and one of their executive function tutors, Jan Rowe, about how to boost your K-8 student’s productivity and keep them on track academically this school year.

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ADHD and Executive Function Crash Course for Families with Elementary and Middle School Students