Edge Foundation Launches Online Coaching Services for ADHD Students Powered by GlobalScholar Technology Millions of bright, able adolescent humans with ADHD in the U.S. are declining academically, and the consistent bread-and-butter and amusing after-effects are potentially enormous These students--many of whom may actual able-bodied be tomorrow's leaders and innovators--need help, and schools and colleges charge advice befitting them from bottomward out. Personal apprenticeship can be a awful able action and abutment apparatus for acceptance with ADHD, but it's still almost alien compared to acceptable interventions such as medication and therapy When delivered accurately by an ADHD-trained professional, claimed apprenticeship contributes anon to bigger bookish performance, added amusing functioning, and added self-esteem. I created the Edge Foundation because my accouchement and I accept benefited abundantly from ADHD coaching, and I ambition as abounding kids as accessible to accept the befalling to acquaintance those aforementioned benefits. GlobalScholar is accustomed to be able to accommodate the technology and casework to abutment the Edge Foundation in their efforts to accomplish a aberration in the lives of acceptance disturbing with ADHD. It is our mission at GlobalScholar to empower the apple to apprentice and we're admiring to accomplice with Edge Foundation to empower ADHD learners to accomplish their goals experience a acceptable accord of adversity in academic, claimed or amusing realms
Bellevue, WA -- GlobalScholar®, a arch innovator of complete end-to-end, student-centric acquirements solutions, and the Edge Foundation, a civic nonprofit alignment accouterment claimed apprenticeship for accouchement and adolescent adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), today appear the barrage of Edge Foundation's online apprenticeship services.
The customized, clandestine characterization coaching platform powered by GlobalScholar technology, creates an engaging, comfortable, and defended ambiance area apprentice and drillmaster can plan calm to advice the apprentice advance key abilities for bookish success; abilities such as scheduling, ambition setting, aplomb building, organizing, focusing, prioritizing, and constant at tasks.
This is the aboriginal time claimed apprenticeship has been fabricated accessible online to acceptance and abundantly increases students' accessibility to coaching.
The bazaar for online apprenticeship services, as provided by Edge Foundation and powered by GlobalScholar technology, is potentially huge. As abounding as 8 actor U.S. children--half of them still undiagnosed--are estimated to accept ADHD, a circuitous mental-health ataxia characterized by inattention, impulsivity and/or hyperactivity. ADHD is accustomed at all socioeconomic levels, in all aboriginal groups, at all IQ levels, and it affects girls in the aforementioned admeasurement as boys.
When compared to added students, appear bookish difficulties for acceptance with ADHD cover problems with time management, anamnesis tasks, acclimation and constant at abiding projects, comestible attention, analysis arresting advice in texts, demography notes, acclimation and alteration analysis papers, and lower grade-point averages, as able-bodied as greater instances of bookish acquittal compared to acceptance after disabilities.
"Millions of bright, able adolescent humans with ADHD in the U.S. are declining academically, and the consistent bread-and-butter and amusing after-effects are potentially enormous," said Edge Foundation CEO Neil Peterson. "These students--many of whom may actual able-bodied be tomorrow's leaders and innovators--need help, and schools and colleges charge advice befitting them from bottomward out."
"Personal apprenticeship can be a awful able action and abutment apparatus for acceptance with ADHD, but it's still almost alien compared to acceptable interventions such as medication and therapy," Peterson said. "When delivered accurately by an ADHD-trained professional, claimed apprenticeship contributes anon to bigger bookish performance, added amusing functioning, and added self-esteem. I created the Edge Foundation because my accouchement and I accept benefited abundantly from ADHD coaching, and I ambition as abounding kids as accessible to accept the befalling to acquaintance those aforementioned benefits."
"GlobalScholar is accustomed to be able to accommodate the technology and casework to abutment the Edge Foundation in their efforts to accomplish a aberration in the lives of acceptance disturbing with ADHD. It is our mission at GlobalScholar to empower the apple to apprentice and we're admiring to accomplice with Edge Foundation to empower ADHD learners to accomplish their goals," said Kal Raman, CEO of GlobalScholar.com.
About ADHD
A circuitous mental-health ataxia that affects the brain's executive-functioning capacity, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is characterized by abiding and astringent issues with attention, focus, organization, concise memory, impulsivity, patience, follow-through and time management. The archetypal alone with ADHD, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, may "experience a acceptable accord of adversity in academic, claimed or amusing realms," and is frequently characterized by low self-esteem and vulnerability to drugs, adventurousness and added alarming behaviors.
Studies accept apparent that after able action while young, adults with ADHD are alert as acceptable to accomplish a crime; six times as acceptable to be actuality abusers; four times as acceptable to accept auto accidents; about alert as acceptable to be divorced; alert as acceptable to be unemployed; and one-third as acceptable to alum from college.
About the Edge Foundation
Launched in 2007 by Neil Peterson, the architect and above CEO of the car-sharing aggregation Flexcar, the Edge Foundation is a civic nonprofit alignment committed to convalescent the lives of accouchement and adolescent adults with ADHD by accouterment claimed coaching. It aswell has launched a two-year, $1 actor analysis abstraction to certificate the abiding capability of ADHD coaching. The foundation trains able activity coaches in ADHD-management techniques and connects them with acceptance in cities above the nation for account blast sessions during the bookish year.
After acceptance administer online, the Edge Foundation matches them with abeyant coaches from its network. Once the apprentice selects a coach, they plan calm in half-hour sessions, with added e-mail contacts throughout the week. Students apprentice skills, techniques and strategies for ambience goals, architecture confidence, organizing, scheduling, focusing, prioritizing and constant at tasks.
The foundation's antecedent accent is on high-school and academy students, but its apprenticeship casework will be broadcast to elementary, middle-school and alum academy acceptance in advancing years.
For added information, amuse appointment www.EdgeFoundation.org or acquaintance Neil Peterson at 206-910-7515.
About GlobalScholar®
GlobalScholar is an educational technology aggregation committed to architecture a arch to change for education. It is a arch innovator of complete end-to-end, student-centric acquirements solutions for academy districts, colleges, and educational organizations. By alms powerful, arch bend solutions and applicable transformational opportunities at all levels of the apprenticeship community, Global Scholar is focused on acceptable a all-around baton in Empowering the World to Learn.
GlobalScholar Private Label Services and Technology developed the customized, branded, web-based belvedere acceptance the Edge Foundation to aggrandize its casework by authoritative claimed apprenticeship sessions accessible to acceptance online in an engaging, comfortable, and defended environment. GlobalScholar's absolutely hosted, online band-aid provides a voice-enabled, alternate classroom for clandestine or accumulation exact discussions and the adeptness to allotment and accessible abstracts for real-time collaboration. Students are able to appearance their coach's calendar, acquirement sessions securely, and agenda accessories anon online. Since the belvedere is web-based, users can acceptance their anniversary advice and affix for apprenticeship anytime and anywhere.
For added information, amuse appointment www.globalscholar.com or acquaintance Justin Smith at 425-460-7078.
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