Executive Function Coach In San Jose, CA
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Program
Learn Executive Functioning The Ladder Method way
Assessment
Our unique program starts with an evaluation that examines 12 cognitive domains. This assessment helps us identify the fundamental learning styles of our students, allowing us to understand how your child learns most effectively.
8 weeks
Our 8-week program provides an introduction to essential skills such as organization, routine building, planning, and time management. This course serves as a foundational class designed to get you started. Keep in mind that mastering executive functioning skills requires continuous practice and development over time.
2 times per week
The designated coach and student groups convene twice weekly. During the initial session, the focus is on teaching the specific skill or goal. The subsequent meeting is dedicated to establishing the habit and routine, ensuring that the student integrates it seamlessly into their daily life.
What is the The Ladder Method difference?
What is the difference between learning Executive Functioning and learning Executive Functioning through
The Ladder Method?
Proprietary Approach
Our unique methodology and specialized curriculum, designed by our founder, set us apart.
To ensure outstanding results, we've meticulously replicated Candice's proven approach. This strategy not only guarantees the quality of our program but also ensures its effectiveness.
Statistical Success Rates
We know our program works because we use statistical models and data to measure our success with each one of our students.
We don’t succeed unless you or your child succeeds.
Team Work
The Ladder Method team is confident in the effectiveness of our program, as we employ statistical models and data analysis to evaluate the progress and success of each student.
Your success, or that of your child, is our success. We are dedicated to ensuring that every student achieves their goals.
Meet Noah Donner Klein
He started with us in the Spring of 2019. Hear his dramatic story of improvement using our toolbox and our proprietary method of instruction on executive functioning skills.
He has now successfully graduated his major at USC and his thriving in a new career only 1 month after graduating college.
Our Executive Functioning FAQ
What is Executive Functioning?
8 -12 key skills that people use to plan and execute tasks as diverse as setting the table to playing sports to completing homework and turning it in.
The skills we focus on are below:
Organization
The ability to create methods and systems to stay tidy and have things put away where they can be found easily.
What this looks like in practice: You regularly find your child’s homework or papers were thrown into a backpack without organization. This student or adult may regularly misplace keys or assignments.
Time Management
An ability to understand accurately how long something will take to properly plan and execute.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to understand why something was not completed on time, procrastination, or a failure to complete most of the steps before having to turn something in.
Working Memory
The ability to keep pieces of information in one’s head for the duration of when it is needed.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to remember directions even after having had them explained numerous times. An inability to memorize without regular repetition. It may look like absentmindedness.
Self-Monitoring
The ability of a person to understand how they are doing at a task.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to understand why they didn’t do well on an assignment or a project.
Planning
The ability to understand how to plan out the execution of a set of tasks and prioritize between tasks.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to set out a plan to execute a project, presentation, or set of homework.
Focus/ Attention
An ability to maintain sustained focus on a person or project and shift to the next project when needed.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to maintain focus for the duration of something, interrupting an adult with an unrelated topic, interrupting in class with an unrelated topic.
Task Initiation
The ability to initiate a task that is assigned without coaxing or another adult present.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to get started or to understand and get started on the next step in an order of tasks.
Emotional Regulation
The ability of a person to react appropriately to positive or negative feedback or instructions.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to restrain an emotional feeling. Children or Adults that lack emotional regulation overreact to an issue.
Task Management
An ability to understanding the micro-steps and timing of a bigger project and how to manage those steps in order. See also planning.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to task manage might look like a weakness to understand what the micro-steps of a project are, how to prioritize them, how to allocate time for them, and what steps go in what order.
Meta-Cognition
The ability to understand how one learns best to apply it to acquire more information.
What this looks like in practice: An inability or struggle to study for tests or understand what processes work best for the learner.
Goal-Directed Perseverance
The ability to stick to the task at hand and not give up when faced with a challenge.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to stick to the task at hand and switch when faced with challenges. Several projects go incomplete.
Flexibility
The ability to adapt when something changes or shifts either in terms of due date or expectation.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to cope with the shift and either an outburst or impulsivity ensues.
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