Anonymous wrote:
OP,

I know several teens with ADHD, including my son, who is now in college, and I've seen that outsourcing the EF management only works for mild ADHD, because:

1. The more severe cases need EF help morning and evening, outside of business hours, every single day, for life tasks that are not just forgetting to hand in homework. This was the case for my son. There is no coach (unless it's a live-in nanny!) that can address that. Since my husband and I were doing the monitoring/nagging/directing, we just did it all.

2. EF coaches are extremely expensive for what they do. I have paid $200/hr for excellent AP Calc or ACT tutors for my son, over a month to review for AP or ACT exams, but I will not pay an EF coach that much every week for the foreseeable future!

So everything will depend on your child's needs.

For middle and part of high school, my son had a resource class in his MCPS public, that went with his IEP, and every day he benefited from a teacher who checked he'd written down his homework, handed in assignments, and gave him extra time to finish tests and schoolwork (extended time accommodation). This was a very useful accompaniment to the functioning help we gave him at home.

Anonymous wrote:^^ not that I've seen. Our child's EF coach meets with them once a week, started in HS, freshman year. Child is in college, they still meet once a week.

First visit, EF coach asked child to dump out their backpack, which was full of so many crumpled assignments on the bottom. And garbage. She taught our child an organization system (different color folders for every class, work to do on one side, work to turn in on the other, along with a folder at home to put finished work in to use for studying later. When they met, they would look at the current weeks work, and the next few weeks work, and make a calendar for time management (paper due next Wed, you have practice every day and games xx days, and carving out when to do the actual work).

In college now, so I have no idea what they actually do, but I don't care. Child wants the support, we have the $$ to support, so that's what we will do.

Anonymous wrote:^^ not that I've seen. Our child's EF coach meets with them once a week, started in HS, freshman year. Child is in college, they still meet once a week.

First visit, EF coach asked child to dump out their backpack, which was full of so many crumpled assignments on the bottom. And garbage. She taught our child an organization system (different color folders for every class, work to do on one side, work to turn in on the other, along with a folder at home to put finished work in to use for studying later. When they met, they would look at the current weeks work, and the next few weeks work, and make a calendar for time management (paper due next Wed, you have practice every day and games xx days, and carving out when to do the actual work).

In college now, so I have no idea what they actually do, but I don't care. Child wants the support, we have the $$ to support, so that's what we will do.

Anonymous wrote:What age do you think it is important to start this? My child has ADHD and I think this is something he could benefit from. He is in 3rd grade and does reading tutor twice a week already and I am not sure we can fit in another tutor (time wise and financial wise!). I was thinking of starting this before middle school.