• "I spend a lot of time trying to help my child do well at school. Every night it is a struggle to get the homework done. I'm exhausted."

• "I can't remember everything I am supposed to do for this test, paper, etc."

• "My son gets everything from A's to E's on assignments. I don't understand why."

• "My teacher doesn't like me. She thinks I'm stupid."

• We have gone to different school meetings and different doctors so we can help our son who is not getting good grades in school and is struggling. We are confused about what we should do next."

• "School is boring. I get too many boring assignments and I can't seem to ever get them all done or turn them in on time."

• "My daughter seems smart but she is not really good in any subject in school. I wish I knew how to help her and how to help the school help her."

• "Now that I'm in high school, they tell me to stop being lazy and be responsible. I guess I avoid doing math because I want to avoid the pain."

• "My child is not getting good grades. What should we do? How can we help him do better?"

• "I have a paper due tomorrow and I left the assignment in my locker. The assignment is not on "Blackboard" so I don't know what I am supposed to do."

• My 10th grade son has attention deficit disorder and trouble getting his work done. I'm worried he won't get into college or be ready for college. What should we be doing now to prepare him for college?"

• "I hate essay tests in English class and social studies. I don't know what I‘m supposed to say."

• "It's so difficult to communicate with our son's teachers. They say he should seek extra help on his own and advocate for himself. I don't want to be considered a helicopter mom, but he needs some help and no one knows what to do."

• "They say that since I'm in middle school I need to be responsible and advocate for my own needs. I'm not sure what will help."

• "They said my child can't have a 504 plan or individual educational plan for her problems with reading and math because they tested her and she doesn't have a disability. My daughter is too smart to receive special assistance. What should we do?"

• "School is boring. I would rather go online to learn."

• "My daughter can't keep all her notes, paperwork and assignments together for each class and seems to lose and misplace things she needs to get work done.

Services

Student Success Navigator
Help parents navigate the maze of school and health care services:
•    Provide Student Support Gap Analysis Assessment.
•    Build a more effective support team for your student.
•    Access new solutions and tools for successful learning in the 21st century.
•    Serve as communications liaison to advocate for the student.
•    Monitor school, health care and other professionals to assess student progress.

Student Learning Behaviors Assessment
Help students discover how they learn and produce work:
•    Determine learning strengths and weaknesses across neurodevelopmental systems of learning (attention, executive functions, organization, work output, memory, language, neuromotor systems, higher-level thinking, spatial/sequential ordering, social cognition, etc.). 
•    Provide learning profile for use by student, parents, school and health professionals.

Personalized Learning Management Plan
Identify individual, home, classroom and school-wide interventions which will help your student succeed: 
•    Develop learning behavior assessment and profile.
•    Provide Personalized Learning Management Plan with latest interventions and tools for home and school.
•    Give support and validation for general education interventions, 504 plan or IEP.

Student Coaching
Provide coaching to help individual students adopt personalized learning strategies, social skills and healthy habits that will support success in school and life. Online and personal coaching meetings to help students:
•    Implement a personalized learning plan.
•    Manage ADHD learning behaviors – attention, mental energy, work output and homework issues, organization/paperwork, etc.
•    Advocate for their learning needs.

Parent Coaching
Provide personal meetings and online coaching to help parents:
•    Learn how to help their children.
•    Utilize school staff, health providers and other outside resources effectively.
•    Access services and support groups for ADHD learners.

Workshops & Conferences
Present workshops and conference talks on a wide range of parenting topics, including:
•    “Use Your Brain” - Implement New 21st Century Solutions in Personalized Learning”
•    “Five Things You Should Do to Navigate Student Success”
•    “Helping Distracted Kids in the Digital Age”
•    “Student Check Up: The 7 Things You Need to Do Now to Prepare for a Successful School Year”
•    “The ADHD Challenge – Helping Smart Students Who Struggle to Learn and Produce Work”
•    Other: See Presentations (hyperlink)

Not all students learn the same way. To prepare our children for a global economy, we must personalize their education, identify their strengths and help them be successful.

Our mission is to enable all students to learn and succeed:
•   We help students discover how they learn, focus, communicate and produce work so they can actively participate in using their strengths.
•   We help build a coordinated support system of resources both within and outside of school and promote the use of best-practice interventions to overcome health and learning barriers.

Gaps in Current Practice:

•   Parents navigate a confusing maze of education and health system resources. They often have a hard time obtaining coordinated and up-to-date health and learning resources to help their children achieve learning success.

•  Brain research tells us that there are many brain systems linked to learning and each student has unique learning strengths and weaknesses. Parents need more information on how their children learn and can be successful.

•   In-school assessments and outside assessments by reputable professionals can be helpful, but many are incomplete as they focus on cognitive assessments and a diagnosis of disability. Health professionals are not "education experts," so their educational recommendations often are incomplete.

•   General Education does not meet the needs of all students, as "one size does not fit all." Special Education serves only students that meet qualifying criteria. Therefore, many students are left behind in the gaps, including:

•   Students who have unaddressed weaknesses in their brain systems linked to learning and who attend schools that do not develop personalized learning plans for general education students.
•   Students at schools that provide only the legal minimum of services. Advocating and receiving the legal minimum does not necessarily constitute best-practice strategies.
•   Students with average-to-high cognitive ability, who have disabilities in performance
•   Students whom teachers consider lazy or disorganized because they don't complete homework or "don't care."
•   Students who are disengaged, lonely or feel bullied at school by other students or school staff.
•   Students who lack social skills for success.