These strategies can help you help your child find a good friend and be a good friend.
Author: Monte W. Davenport, Ph.D.
For 25 years, Dr. Davenport's career has been focused on helping improve the lives of children, teens, college students, and families struggling with ADHD, anxiety, OCD, depression, oppositional-defiant behavior, learning disorders, and related executive functioning challenges. Call 817.421.8780 to find out how he can help you.
How to Help Your Socially Challenged Child Make Friends
These easy-to-use strategies can help you help your child make friends.
Strategies to Help Your Student with Social Struggles
Some children with executive functioning challenges also suffer from a handicap that isolates them from others. Boys and girls with social cognition weaknesses seem immature and seem to lack good judgment at times. They may be less sensitive to the needs of others. As a result, they are rejected by their peers, and their social relationships seem “out of synch.” Read this series of articles to find out how you can help your child or student.
Accomplish More at Work: Focus on the Right Thing at the Right Time!
Try these strategies to focus on what matters and accomplish more at work despite ADHD and executive functioning challenges.
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Planner Alternatives for Students Who Hate to Plan
Standard school & store-bought planners don’t work for everyone! Try these simplified alternatives.
Educational Care: Actively Addressing Math Problems
In math, the child with executive skill challenges may struggle with, inconsistent application of multiple step math procedures for regrouping (carrying and borrowing), variable problem solving skills, trouble completing all steps in multiple step word problems, inconsistent reasoning with time and money, and trouble recalling procedures for higher level math such as algebra and calculus. In this article, you’ll learn ways to help your struggling child or teen.
Accommodating Math Problems
Students who struggle with learning, attention, and executive functioning challenges can have trouble with different aspects of math, including fact recall, multiple-step math computations, and math problem solving. In addition to providing them age-appropriate strategies, these students can benefit from classroom accommodations. Accommodating involves adjusting for areas of known weaknesses in math computations and problem…
Prioritize by Time & Place to Reach Your Goals!
If you struggle to use planners and calendars, try keeping track of your tasks by when and where you’ll complete them. In this article, Dr. Davenport outlines a simplified way to prioritize by context. Download and Print the Prioritizing by Context Worksheet This worksheet is designed for adults who have different types of tasks to…
Get Your Priorities Straight to Achieve More!
Adults with executive functioning challenges like ADHD can achieve more in their lives by using this simplified priority planner
Do Your Research!
Try these suggestions to help your student successfully complete research for reports and projects.