• Customizing coaching plans based on students' unique cognitive profiles

• Establishing a collaborative relationship with students within the context of an accepting, positive, and nurturing environment

• Helping students set and achieve academic and personal goals

• Guiding students in time management, organization, prioritization, and task management/completion

• Leading students in proactively solving problems as they arise

• Assisting students in managing assignments, deadlines, correspondence, and commitments

• Leading students in developing insight into personal strengths and weaknesses

• Guiding students in effectively identifying and managing their emotions as well as understanding and responding to others' emotions.

• Helping students identify, understand and accept their strengths and weaknesses

• Leveraging students' strengths to facilitate success and celebrating successes

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• Assisting students in breaking down assignments into manageable tasks

• Helping students organize, allocate, plan, and monitor their time

• Creating semester calendars with all test and assignment due dates

• Developing reminder systems/strategies and monitoring task completion to ensure assignments get finished on time and deadlines are met

• Implementing organizational systems for managing academic materials

• Leading students through the problem solving process

• Aiding students in managing distractions

• Serving as an external source of motivation and reinforcement

• Devising strategies to leverage academic strengths and minimize the impact of academic weaknesses

• Teaching before class (text-book reading and lecture preparation), during class (note-taking, test-taking, test-anxiety), and after class (test preparation, mnemonic strategies) study strategies.

• Explaining the what, when, where, why & how of studying

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•  Educating & advising students about SMU's curriculum, policies, & procedures

• Designing balanced class schedules that take into account ADHD-related needs

• Guiding students with selection of majors, minors​, professors, and courses

• Creating 4-year graduation plans 

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• Reviewing Degree Progress Reports and guiding students through the selection of courses, professors, & curriculum requirements

• Ensuring students are cleared to register and enrolling students for classes

• Assisting students in procuring academic accommodations

• Helping students complete petitions as needed

• Completing paperwork with students for declaring majors and minors, obtaining advanced approval of transfer credit, registering for internship credit, etc.

• Applying for graduation

• Helping students develop habits, routines, & rituals to increase productivity

• Devising and implementing organizational systems and structure

• Creating daily, weekly, and semester schedules and checklists

• Serving as a predictable and orienting touchpoint for students

• Educating students about the ADHD diagnosis

• Enhancing student self-esteem and self-confidence through understanding, awareness, skill building, & role-playing

• Informing students of legal rights

• Assisting students in communicating with, and acquiring academic accommodations from, DASS

• Communicating with professors via email, in class, and in office hours

• Introducing students to apps and websites that assist with ADHD, learning, and productivity

• Recommending assistive-technology as needed

• Advising students on strategies for managing distractions 

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• Helping students understand, process & manage emotions

• Supporting students struggling with the multiple demands of college life

• Guiding students in building healthy habits including exercise, sleep, stress management, & mindfulness

• Educating students about the perils of self-medicating with drugs and alcohol

• Assisting with medication compliance & monitoring of side effects

• Providing referrals to Dallas area medical & mental health professionals

• Collaborating with doctors, therapists, etc.

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