Student Success! is a structured cognitive-behavioral approach designed to help students of all ages ”learn how to learn” and ultimately learn how to solve everyday challenges.
More than “study skills training,” Student Success! teaches your student five structured sequential steps to solving specific challenges related to his or her weak executive functioning skills and related language/learning challenges. Your student’s unique needs are identified by you and/or her educators using our research-based Functional Aspects of Language, Learning, and Attention Questionnaire.
As she internalizes this structured approach to problem solving, we slowly turn these problem-solving procedures/processes over to your student so that she can begin to take control of her learning.
The acronym S-O-L-V-E represents five structured steps your student will learn to follow as he or she begins to take control of his or her future.
State Your Goals Clearly as you consider how a specific executive skill hampers academic success and what changes you want to make.
Organize Your Thoughts by considering how to use your strengths to reduce the cause/effect of executive skill challenges.
Learn New Ways of Thinking by understanding the role of executive functions, moving past self-blame, and taking responsibility for improvement.
Venture: Make a Plan and Take Action by establishing goals and taking steps to address specific needs.
Evaluate Your Progress regularly to determine what is working and learn how to fix what’s not working.
During each session, new skills are learned. Between sessions, your student practices his or her new strategies. At the beginning of the next session, we evaluate progress, celebrate successes, and solve problems.
This approach is especially helpful for students who are transitioning from middle to high school, and high school to college.
Click here to see a Student Success! Sample
For more information regarding the basis for Student Success, you are encouraged to consider the following research-based articles from Rosemary Tannock, Ph.D. and the staff of the ADHD Cognition Centre in Toronto:
Rethinking ADHD from a Cognitive Perspective
Rethinking ADHD in the Classroom
Call 817.421.8780 today to learn how your student can benefit from this sequential and structured approach.
S-O-L-V-E, Student Success! procedures, Student Success! materials, and Functional Aspects of Language, Learning, and Attention Questionnaire are copyrighted by Monte W. Davenport, PhD. (c) 2009-2011.
