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The Executive Functions Coach offers a wide range of resources to help students and adults with ADD or ADHD excel in academics, career, and life.
The four steps to use California SDP funds for executive function coaching: write the skill goal into the IPP, build the spending plan, get regional center certification, and set up FMS payment. Includes the eligibility gate most articles skip.
ADHD burnout is not just tiredness. It is neurological depletion from months of running on 3x the mental effort. Here is the 5-step reset that actually pulls you out.
ADHD paralysis is a task initiation failure, not laziness. Here are 4 techniques with research behind them to break the freeze in about 10 minutes, plus how to prevent it long-term.
The Self-Determination Program lets you hire providers regional centers do not typically vendor. Here are the 7 questions that separate an SDP-fluent executive function coach from one who will create weeks of paperwork problems.
Your child gets the material but still gets bad grades. Is the answer a tutor, a therapist, or an executive function coach? This guide walks through what each professional does, a quick diagnostic to match the right help to the right problem, and a side-by-side comparison of cost, results timeline, and when you need more than one.
Most executive function research comes from university labs. After ten years and 500+ Los Angeles families, here are seven patterns that actually show up at kitchen tables in Brentwood, Encino, and across the city.
The kid tested gifted in fourth grade. Honors through middle school. Then junior year hits and the grades collapse. The parent says he’s not trying. The parent is almost always wrong. Here’s what’s really happening.
Your kid hasn’t started the essay because they are afraid it will not be perfect. So they do not start. That isn’t procrastination. That is teen perfectionism, and it burns out smart kids faster than anything else in LA.
You ask your son to come down for dinner. He says five more minutes. You call him again at 6:15. Still five more minutes. By 6:35 you are yelling. He is genuinely confused. That is time blindness ADHD.
Your kid has a 3 p.m. appointment. It is noon. They cannot start anything because of what is coming. The whole afternoon disappears into the phone. That is ADHD waiting mode, and here is how to break it.
Before you spend $800 to $1,400 a month, you deserve a straight answer: is executive function coaching worth it? This article walks through the recent research, realistic timelines from behavior shifts to academic traction to independence, what coaching cannot do, and the specific student profile that gets the strongest results.
An IEP is an important start, but for many children with executive function challenges it does not go far enough. Here is what parents need to know and what actually fills the gap.