WHO WE HELP AND HOW

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Common roadblocks for elementary-aged students include:

Starting tasks without constant prompting (maybe you’re tired of nagging your child to brush their teeth?)
Keeping track of materials (maybe you’ve purchased countless water bottles this year?)
Following through on routines (maybe getting your child out the door requires herculean effort?)

Support cycles with younger students focus on building routines, creating and using age appropriate time management and organizational tools, and developing positive language around capabilities. While not all executive function programs focus on this age range, we believe there are real benefits to having strategies in place at a younger age and while children’s sense of self is rapidly developing.

Support cycles include close collaboration with families to make decisions about approach and create consistency across environments.

MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Middle and high school aged students are often juggling complex academic and extracurricular demands. Common challenges include:

Procrastination and inability to start projects/assignments
Struggling to keep track of required work and how to prioritize tasks
Disorganization with online and tangible materials

Support cycles with middle and high school aged students focus on developing strategies for prioritization and planning and creating related systems to organize time and materials. Tools vary depending on the students’ educational environment and individual preferences (for example, some students find a digital planner is essential and for others a paper/pencil version is best). Students also learn self-advocacy skills and are introduced to the idea of metacognition to foster a stronger sense of agency and understanding of their own capabilities.

Support cycles include regularly scheduled check-ins with families to create shared expectations, establish goals, and track progress.

YOUNG ADULTS

Transitioning to college life and living independently often requires tackling a whole new set of work/life balance considerations. Common challenges include:

Feeling overwhelmed by responsibilities
Difficulty balancing academic, work, and life demands
Uncertainty about next steps and future planning

With young adults, in addition to developing strategies for prioritization and planning, support cycles focus on bigger picture goal setting.

PARENTS AND OLDER ADULTS

Executive Function challenges can arise throughout the lifespan. Later in life it is common to struggle with:

Difficulty balancing personal and family responsibilities simultaneously
Parenting children (who may not yet have developed their own skills or who may approach tasks and goals in unfamiliar ways)
Pivoting when needed to establish new goals and habits

With parents and older adults, support cycles focus on identifying what is and is not working and where help is needed most. Like with younger adults, support cycles may focus on prioritization, planning, and organization. Alternatively, support cycles may focus on family wide systems, strategies for working with partners and children, or on establishing strategies and habits to support new life goals.

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