Executive Functions and Social Skills Coaching

What Is It?
Children with ADHD and Autism are often bright, creative, and full of potential — but may struggle with the behind-the-scenes skills that make daily life run smoothly. Organization, planning, impulse control, making friends, and reading social cues don’t come naturally to every child, and that’s okay. These are skills that can be explicitly taught, practiced, and built over time.

Executive Function Coaching
Executive skills are the mental processes that help us plan, organize, manage time, control impulses, and regulate emotions. For children with ADHD or autism, these skills often develop more slowly — not because of a lack of effort or intelligence, but because of how their brains are wired.

We work on:
• Organization, planning, and building routines
• Time management and transitions
• Getting started on tasks that feel overwhelming
• Impulse control and emotional regulation

Sessions are hands-on and practical. Parents receive guidance on reinforcing skills at home so progress carries over into everyday life.

Social Skills Coaching
Making friends, joining conversations, reading body language, and navigating conflict can feel like a foreign language for some children. Social Skills Coaching teaches these unwritten rules in a clear, explicit, and supportive way.

We work on:
• Reading social cues — facial expressions, tone, personal space
• Starting and maintaining conversations
• Friendship skills and handling conflict
• Navigating group settings like classrooms and lunch tables
• Self-advocacy — understanding and communicating their own needs

Skills are learned through practice, role-play, and real-life scenarios — not lecture.

A Strengths-Based Approach
Children with ADHD and autism bring remarkable qualities — curiosity, creativity, loyalty, and out-of-the-box thinking. This coaching isn’t about changing who your child is. It’s about giving them the tools to let who they are shine more fully.

Is Coaching a Good Fit?
This type of intervention may be right for your child if they struggle with homework and organization, have difficulty making or keeping friends, feel left out or misunderstood socially, or know what they should do but can’t seem to make it happen.

Every child deserves to feel capable and connected.