For parents of kids with ADHD
Help your child manage school, without the nightly battles.
This is where you get understanding of what ADHD actually is, what helps at school, and how to advocate without sounding defensive.
All of it focused on getting your child through the school day.
Your Child is Not Choosing to Struggle
ADHD creates problems with performance, not knowledge. It is not that your child does not know what to do, it is doing what they know when the demand is on them.
Here is the approach I teach the professionals inside your child’s school, and what each part means for you.
Educate
The adults around your child shape everything.
When a teacher understands that ADHD is a neurodevelopmental difference and not willful disobedience , the notes home change.
Understanding is preventative, and you can hand a teacher one clear page instead of asking them to read a book.
Accommodate
You change the context, not the child.
Symptom expression is contextually dependent, so managing the classroom manages ADHD.
Accommodations are federally protected rights, not favors, and knowing which ones to ask for is half the battle at a 504 or IEP meeting.
Scaffold
“Try harder” is not the answer, because your child is already trying.
Scaffolding gives them a different way of doing the task and slowly hands the controls back, until they are the captain of their own ship.
We create the strategies that work with their brain and not against it.
Empower
By age 12 a child with ADHD has heard around 20,000 more negative messages than their peers.
Protecting how your child sees themselves is what makes self-advocacy possible.
Different is not less. We give the permission and guidance to stop trying harder and start tying differently.
Success at school is the single most therapeutic thing a child can experience.
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The pieces parents tell me changed how they see their child at school.
Free resources you can bring to school
Clear, evidence-based pages built to hand to a teacher or bring to a meeting.
ADHD Teacher Fact Sheet
One page that explains what ADHD really is and what helps. Hand it to your child’s teacher at the start of the year.
Accommodation Checklist
Know what to ask for before you walk into a 504 or IEP meeting, in plain language.
Dear Teacher Form
Introduce your child to a new teacher in a way that leads with who they are, not what they struggle with.
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A course built for parents
The same approach I teach the professionals in your child’s school, translated for the parent who is doing the advocating. Focused on helping your child through the school day. Join the waitlist and you will be the first to know when it opens.