Academic Performance


Ruth's Innovative Academic Tools program is a distinctly concrete, specific, barebones, and comprehensive approach that covers the skill areas necessary for true academic success. It's highly effective for teens and young adults with ADHD and/or other challenges. At its core, this novel program incorporates many essential executive functioning skills. It works when nothing else has.

Ruth specializes in: 

  • Follow-through with homework

  • Organization/Prioritizing 

  • Procrastination

  • Learning potential

  • ADHD and executive functioning skills

  • Motivation 

  • Failing grades 

  • School anxiety 

  • School resistance

  • And more

Skill sets include:​

  • Assignment Notebook - a novel approach that includes time management and planning, accountability, and more 

  • Follow-through with homework

  • Reading textbooks, to increase comprehension and recall, and to decrease study time for tests      

  • Study skills 

  • Daily/weekly planner

  • Parent training - includes daily and weekly structure, a check-in system for accountability, effective consequences and reinforcement, accommodations for academics, and more

  • And more

Over the years, Ruth’s teens and young adults have taught her what works for them, and this program is a big part of their input and experience. It continues to be most effective and successful in helping students maximize their academic performance and to actualize their true learning potential. 

 Benefits:

  • Improved grades 

  • Improved time management 

  • Improved responsibility and discipline 

  • Improved organization skills 

  • Improved accountability 

  • Improved motivation 

  • Improved focus and follow-through 

  • Improved study skills 

  • Improved comprehension and recall 

  • Improved learning potential 

  • Improved parent/teen relationships

Ruth also specializes in dyslexia, a neurologically-based learning disability that includes:

  • Decoding (word attack skills – reading)

  • Encoding (spelling) 

  • Reading comprehension 

  • Speaking (organizing thoughts to speech, correct verb tense, ...)

Ruth uses Project Read, a comprehensive language program based out of Bloomington, MN, and Language Tool Kit, Cambridge, MA.