Academic Coaching:
Empowering Students with ADHD and
Executive Function Challenges

Kelly Schwenkmeyer, MEd

April 29, 2021
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

WEBINAR

Education is more than just learning facts: it is an emotional experience. Often students who struggle academically also struggle to maintain their emotional wellbeing, and vice versa. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg conundrum. To truly thrive, students need to have academic skills and feel balanced and satisfied with their social-emotional lives.

Studies show that college students with ADHD and executive function challenges experience substantial academic and social-emotional difficulties throughout their college years. Academic coaching simultaneously strengthens academic skills, like organization, planning, study techniques and time management, while bolstering a student’s emotional wellbeing, in areas such as resilience, stress management, confidence and emotional regulation. At its best, coaching is a lively, creative and transformational experience, building self-awareness and empowering students to self-advocate and become independent learners. It is particularly effective for students with ADHD, executive function challenges, and those struggling to achieve their goals.

Kelly Schwenkmeyer, MEd, a certified academic coach, will explain how coaching works for high school and college students and will share anecdotes to illuminate how unique and personalized the coaching process can be.

VIDEO

Materials: Academic Coaching (PDF Format)

More About Kelly Schwenkmeyer

SPED*NET Wilton does not provide medical or psychological
advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The material in this webinar
is provided for educational purposes only.

Academic Coaching:
Empowering Students with ADHD and
Executive Function Challenges

Kelly Schwenkmeyer, MEd

April 29, 2021
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

WEBINAR

Education is more than just learning facts: it is an emotional experience. Often students who struggle academically also struggle to maintain their emotional wellbeing, and vice versa. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg conundrum. To truly thrive, students need to have academic skills and feel balanced and satisfied with their social-emotional lives.

Studies show that college students with ADHD and executive function challenges experience substantial academic and social-emotional difficulties throughout their college years. Academic coaching simultaneously strengthens academic skills, like organization, planning, study techniques and time management, while bolstering a student’s emotional wellbeing, in areas such as resilience, stress management, confidence and emotional regulation. At its best, coaching is a lively, creative and transformational experience, building self-awareness and empowering students to self-advocate and become independent learners. It is particularly effective for students with ADHD, executive function challenges, and those struggling to achieve their goals.

Kelly Schwenkmeyer, MEd, a certified academic coach, will explain how coaching works for high school and college students and will share anecdotes to illuminate how unique and personalized the coaching process can be.

VIDEO

Materials: Academic Coaching (PDF Format)

More About Kelly Schwenkmeyer

SPED*NET Wilton does not provide medical or psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
The material in this webinar is provided for educational purposes only.

Academic Coaching

Empowering Students
with ADHD and Executive
Function Challenges

Kelly Schwenkmeyer, MEd

April 29, 2021
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

WEBINAR

Education is more than just learning facts: it is an emotional experience. Often students who struggle academically also struggle to maintain their emotional wellbeing, and vice versa. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg conundrum. To truly thrive, students need to have academic skills and feel balanced and satisfied with their social-emotional lives.

Studies show that college students with ADHD and executive function challenges experience substantial academic and social-emotional difficulties throughout their college years. Academic coaching simultaneously strengthens academic skills, like organization, planning, study techniques and time management, while bolstering a student’s emotional wellbeing, in areas such as resilience, stress management, confidence and emotional regulation. At its best, coaching is a lively, creative and transformational experience, building self-awareness and empowering students to self-advocate and become independent learners. It is particularly effective for students with ADHD, executive function challenges, and those struggling to achieve their goals.

Kelly Schwenkmeyer, MEd, a certified academic coach, will explain how coaching works for high school and college students and will share anecdotes to illuminate how unique and personalized the coaching process can be.

VIDEO

Materials: Academic Coaching (PDF Format)

More About Kelly Schwenkmeyer

SPED*NET Wilton does not provide medical
or psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
The material in this webinar is provided for
educational purposes only.