Unlock Your Child’s Potential with Executive Function Coaching

Unlock Your Child’s Potential with Executive Function Coaching

Since 2010, we have provided customized one-on-one executive function coaching designed to equip students with the essential skills, tools, and strategies they need for success in school and life. We focus on teaching systems and reinforce habits that can be applied across all academic subjects, through high school, and into college and career.

Academic success is not just about mastering subjects; it also involves overcoming challenges in executive functions like organization, time management, and emotional regulation. Recognizing and mastering these skills are needed to become a successful learner, not just in the classroom, but in all aspects of life.

What is Executive Function?

Executive function is the brain’s command center, managing the mental skills needed to navigate daily life.

Executive function is a science-proven system that allows one to keep track of tasks, prioritize deadlines, and filter out distractions. Planning, organizing, focusing, time management, and emotional regulation – all fall under EF and work together to help goals be achieved, whether it’s doing well on a test, finishing a project on time, or staying calm during a challenging conversation.

How To Know If Your Child Struggles With Executive Functions

Being challenged with executive function can manifest in many ways, and are often similar to symptoms of ADHD. This similarity is because ADHD is a condition related to executive function challenges.

A variety of behaviors might surface if your child is challenged with executive functions. They may:

• Struggle with initiating or finishing tasks.
• Experience challenges in determining the importance and order of tasks.
• Often forget recently heard or read information.
• Face difficulties in adhering to instructions or following a series of steps.
• Be chronically disorganized
• Experience stress, anxiety, and overwhelm when confronted with alterations in rules or routines.
• Find it challenging to shift attention between different tasks.
• Tend to become excessively emotional and fixate on specific issues.
• Encounter difficulties in organizing thoughts coherently.
• Frequently misplace or lose track of personal items.
• Struggle with effective time management skills.

If your student suffers from even a few of these behaviors, school can be very challenging for them. Recognizing the signs is the first step to supporting your child.

What is Executive Function Coaching?

Executive function coaching can be a game-changer for your child, providing them with the tools and strategies needed to navigate these challenges and unlock their potential.

Academic Coaching in Executive Functions

Traditional academic tutoring often focuses on mastering specific subjects, leaving crucial skills like organization, time management, and emotional regulation to chance. This is why it is so important to teach both academic and executive functions steps together.

No two students experience executive function challenges in the same way. Therefore, tailoring our approach to your child’s unique learning style, and by using their academic materials, we will teach them how to:

• Organize
• Plan
• Prioritize
• Manage time
• Maintain focus
• Self-assess
• Study/work efficiently
• Manage emotions, stress, and anxiety
• Reflect on and change their approaches

Executive Function and the ADHD Child

Many children with executive function challenges also have ADHD. As Executive Function Coaching provides practical strategies and support to overcome specific challenges, we can address the strengths and weaknesses of the ADHD learner. This targeted approach equips students with ADHD with the skills to break down complex tasks, manage time effectively, focus during study sessions, and regulate emotions when facing academic pressure.

Our approach to Executive Function Coaching is to increase your child’s confidence, enhance their learning, and inspire a love and curiosity for learning, both in and out of school.

Unlock Your Child’s Potential Today!

Unlocking your child’s potential starts with a conversation. Contact us today to learn how Executive Function Coaching can guide your child toward academic success and lifelong skills for living.