154- How to Start (and End) the School Year Organized
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
ADHD often brings serious executive function challenges that impact school performance. Susan Lasky, M.A., shares organizing systems and tools students can use to declutter their backpacks, turn in assignments, manage long-term projects, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:12.0 | Susan Kaufman, I'm here to welcome you to Attitudes 80-H-D experts broadcast. |
| 0:18.8 | We have heard repeatedly from Attitude Readers that their children's executive function problems and deficits mean that many of them routinely forget to write down homework assignments. |
| 0:29.0 | They lose important papers in what is, can be a bottomless backpack and they're overwhelmed by |
| 0:34.8 | school projects that have long timelines. Some of the smartest and most creative |
| 0:39.2 | kids need help learning how to get and how to stay organized in the face of these kinds of executive |
| 0:44.0 | function problems. So today we're super pleased to welcome long-time professional |
| 0:49.0 | organizer Susan Lasky to just advise us on setting up school organizations systems that actually work. |
| 0:56.0 | She'll be talking about topics such as how to narrow the many options for tracking assignments, |
| 1:01.4 | managing papers, handing in homework, to the ones that are right for your family, |
| 1:05.4 | how to maintain those systems and how to set up schedules |
| 1:08.2 | that work for your family over the months ahead, |
| 1:10.8 | and not just the week that you set them up. |
| 1:13.3 | Susan Lasky's MA has been helping families and students get things done, basically |
| 1:17.6 | using strategies that work with the way people actually think since 1991. She is a co-founder of Chad New York City and her |
| 1:27.0 | degrees are numerous. Some of them are senior certified ADHD coach level two |
| 1:32.4 | specialist in chronic |
| 1:34.0 | disorganization and she is a golden circle member of the National |
| 1:37.8 | Association of Professional Organizers. |
| 1:40.4 | Susan, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 1:42.8 | And I'd also like to give a big thank you to the sponsor of today's webinar, |
| 1:46.2 | the very extremely invaluable time timer. |
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