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Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) refers to a person’s challenges with developing and utilizing their executive functioning skills.
Executive functioning includes all of the processes required for learning, such as organization, time management, metacognition, and self-regulation.
ADHD in college can greatly increase the challenges of college, as the paradigm for content delivery, demonstrating learning, and the multiple demands of social engagement and independent living, can be a perfect storm for students with ADHD and/or challenges with Executive Functioning. Indeed, college is the first time in many student’s life where they are solely responsible for not only managing their day to day life, but also a complex college educational system – and the college experience is as much about course content as it is an extended and real-world evaluation of a student’s applied executive functioning skills.
Mansfield Hall can help.
How Mansfield Hall Supports Students with ADHD
At Mansfield Hall, we recognize that managing ADHD, or other executive functioning challenges, can result in challenges in college. Unfortunately few, if any, colleges for students with ADHD exist and even the best colleges for students with ADHD often still fall short of addressing a student’s comprehensive needs across multiple domains.
Mansfield Hall carefully examines how a student’s executive functioning challenges impacts each of their four core domains – Learning, Living, Giving, and Engaging. Through personalized coaching, individualized goal-setting, and with staff support, students build plans to accommodate their challenges and develop the compensatory skills and strategies that can be used across all domains.
Please contact Mansfield Hall to learn more about how we support students with ADHD and Executive Functioning challenges.
Obsessed with a crafty queen! Aven and life skills coach Juneau working on her Halloween costume 🎃👻.
PS. Burlington students, be sure to check out sewing club!
Sometimes a 5K is called a fun run- can confirm that much fun was had by all! 🏃
We`re doing our best to soak up these last fall days- it was well worth the effort this hike took!
There’s some fascinating research coming out surrounding the possible links between neurodivergence, hyper mobility, and regulation right now.
The overall conversation is surrounding the idea that neurodivergent folks are 4 times more likely to have generalized hypermoblity- a connective tissue disorder where the ligaments in the body are looser and thusly have to effort extra hard to hold everything in the body together. This additional effort the body has to exert daily to keep everything in order may be linked to a host of things, all pointing to the idea that these folks systems are working overtime to keep regulated.
Exercise, especially strength training can help ease this strain on the body by strengthening the muscles around the ligaments, which can help ease the job of those ligaments with consistent training over time.
Mansfield Hall offers students the opportunity to join in for two structured workouts a week focused on upper and lower body as well as core stability for this reason!
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You could say this event was a smashing success!
Eugene students enjoyed pumpkin launching over the weekend. 🎃
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