What is Executive Function?
Executive Dysfunction = Academic Underperformance
Students with executive function deficits frequently do not complete homework assignments and projects on time, struggle to prioritize academics over gaming and YouTube, are easily distracted, and rarely effectively study for exams.
Without effective treatment, deficits in executive function often result in poor academic performance, high levels of stress and anxiety, low self-esteem, and many other challenges in day-to-day functioning.
The GEL Approach
Built upon evidence-based interventions, the GEL Approach was explicitly designed to remediate executive function deficits and is highly effective in helping high school and college students overcome challenges in planning, time management, prioritization, procrastination, and minimizing distractions.
Fortunately, chronic deficits in executive function are treatable, and many students experience profound positive changes through GEL’s academic and ADHD\EF coaching.
Here’s how our coaching approach helps:
Individuals with executive function deficits often suffer from time blindness, an inability or difficulty to sense the passage of time. Time blindness creates problems for obvious reasons, including when students have to account for competing demands for their time. Our coaches help students develop strategies to increase their awareness of time and explain what effective time management looks like in school and their personal lives.
Students with executive function deficits struggle with delayed gratification. They tend to prioritize unimportant but preferred activities over important but non-preferred activities. As in many things in life, a balanced approach works best, but what does that approach actually look like, and how should it be presented to a student with executive function deficits? GEL coaches are experts in helping students see the value in prioritizing academics before gaming\YouTube while carving out time to do both.
Studies have repeatedly shown how harmful distractions are to productivity and getting things done. But what do you do if your brain is literally wired for distractibility? GEL pioneered a research-based strategy we call The 3-Step. It is highly effective in minimizing distractions and puts attention right where it needs to be when engaging in schoolwork.
Perhaps nothing is more ubiquitous amongst students with executive function deficits than procrastination. The problem lies in a very strong cognitive pattern that says, “I have plenty of time; I will do it later.” Unfortunately, “later” rarely, if ever, comes. GEL has mastered the approach to overcoming procrastination in even the most chronic procrastinators by circumventing the brain’s natural pattern of avoidance.
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