The Academy's program is designed to coach every age segment including children and adolescents teenager’s young adults and senior citizens. We have a number of training coaches that have successfully developed coaching practices in each of these age segments and have learned the skills through our tele-classes and labs.

Every coaching model and every skill we teach is designed to be used for repair child or an adult by making slight modifications. One of the excellent elements of our program is that we encourage students to bring their own challenges for the challenges of a relative or client they are currently working with so that we can use those real-life scenarios to practice the coaching skill sets as they are being taught.

We've applied what we have learned no matter what the age group and then receive feedback from the instructor and observations from the class. The Academy's program is not designed to just teach one age segment of the ADHD population it is designed for all age segments of the population and for those who are willing to coach and have the ability to process and articulate what is going on in their lives. So, a three or four-year-old child with ADHD that was having processing challenges and unable to communicate what is going on would not be a good candidate for coaching. However attend rural 11-year-old that is able to identify or respond to what to what Cheryl images are impairing their ability to move forward in life is able to do that an effective successful coaching can occur.

All of our modules and. lessons are designed to accommodate all the different age segments. The sessions are also dedicated to coaching around specific scenarios that facilitate an ability to practice the individual coaching skills and receive valuable feedback.
 

Most definitely. One of the great benefits that only the ADD Coach Academy coach training program can offer is for those who have ADHD themselves they will go through the process of identifying their own challenges, how they impair their quality of life, then begin the process of customizing strategies that work the way they're unique brain wiring works and then began to implement them. This significantly improves their ability to understand their client and receive them with listening skills that reveal a sincere awareness and understanding of what their clients go through on a daily basis. The understanding of individuals ADHD and the ability to get right to the bottom line of what's going on is what makes our coaches so excellent and it is the foundation for building a strong and powerful foundation for trusting partnership between coaching client.

Many of the coaches who have been trained at the ADD Coach Academy are making a significant and positive difference in the world.

In the United States many of our coaches have been:

Working at the some of the finest ADHD clinics in the world like the Hallowell Center and the Rochester Behavioral Center for Medicine, coaching children and or their parents, adolescents, teenagers, young adults, adults and senior citizens.

Advocating for parents and their children in school systems, colleges and universities across the country to support them with the optimal accommodations for the improvement of each child’s academic performance and to dramatically improve the child's or young adult's academic experience throughout their academic years.

Most of the coaches at the Academy have created their own coaching practices that serve all the major categories and age groups of individuals with ADHD that are challenged by their lack of understanding of ADHD and who want to be empowered, to successfully manage their challenges and identify their strengths, values and passion so they can integrate more of those into their life.

We have coaches who have also served on the boards and committees of organizations like ADDA Attention Deficit Disorder Association and CHADD. Many have even started and/or served as leaders of CHADD chapters across the United Sates and Canada.

The efforts of our coaches are not just limited to the US, we have some excellent coaches who have graduated building a coaching practice in their respective countries and students who have trained and/or are training from England, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Israel, Turkey, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Brazil, Italy.

We know that through the work and efforts of all ADD Coach Academy coaches and staff we are making a huge and positive difference for many individual with ADHD around the world.

First of all, all instructors at the Academy must be ICF certified and have at least a PCC crednetial.The ADD Coach Academy considers the ICF the governing body of all coach credentialing and certification and embraces their coaching competencies as the standard of coaching profession. We take that philosophy very seriously and integrate all the ICF coaching competencies into our curriculum.

Any individual going through our training program will learn the ADHD coaching skills based on their alignment with the ICF coaching competencies. What this means is whenever you are introduced to a new coaching skill we not only teach you the ADHD elements of how that skill set works, we also introduce and teach you the associated ICF coaching competencies aligned with that specific coaching skill you are learning and practicing at the Academy.

You will also learn and practice how to integrate the ICF coaching competencies into the coaching process. Each student is evaluated based on a coaching supervision and evaluation form that all academy instructors use to evaluate each students competency level when they are conducting an actual coaching session in class.

You will receive the evaluation form when you begin your basic coach training. The form lists all 11 ICF coaching competencies and areas for each competency that demonstrate or show a need for improvement your for specific coaching competency. This is tremendously beneficial for preparing all of our coaches for the recorded and live sessions ICF conducts for accreditation. The ADDCA students who decide to apply for ICF certification are well prepared and confident going into the testing and credentialing process. Many of our students have done very well and have received credentials from ICF.

Also, of the four instructors at ADDCA, three (3) are ICF assessors who actually conduct and review the individuals recordings and tests for ICF to determine if candidates have the necessary ability and understanding of the coaching process to receive an ICF credential. Our fourth instructor is currently going thought the training to become an ICF assessor. In the near future all of our instructors will not only be if ICF certified they will also be ICF assessors.

When you go through our program, all the models, skill sets and strategies can be used to coach any of these conditions.

One of the the main objectives of ADHD coaching is to support and empower our clients in identifying and articulating the impairing challenges that get in their way. Of course, we are also listening for their natural talents as well. However, without a concise and accurate description to share with the diagnostician, the biological impairments for any condition will be difficult if not impossible to successfully manage. So often inaccurate information is given to a diagnostician resulting in an inaccurate diagnosis and supporting treatment. The process of identifying and accurately describing what is getting in the way must be the first step of all well trained ADHD Coaches.

We know through our own experience that so much inaccurate information is disseminated with regards to any of the co-occurring conditions. A well trained ADHD coach can be instrumental in supporting their client with gaining greater clarity and accuracy about what what is really going on. The skills you will learn in our program will address and practice this process.

Many coaches have built full-time practices in many niches including, Family, Children & Adolescents, Relationship, Small Business/ Entrepreneurs and more.

Some of our coaches get hired by larger comprehensive clinics like the Hallowell Center. Some coaches are also hired as coaching advocates who help students receive accommodations with their local school district. In a private practice, the coaches rate depend on many variables, such as years of experience, location, certification, etc.

However, on average, you can expect to earn anywhere from $35-50/hour once you graduate from our Basic ADHD Coach Training and $75-$100 an hour after you have been certified in our Advanced ADHD Coach Training.

Many coaches who have taken the Basic training, come back after a year of experience and take the additional 90 hours of training in our accredited Advanced program, while still building their coaching practices.

There is an estimated 12-15 million individuals who have ADHD and 85% are undiagnosed. The need for ADHD coaching continues to grow everyday and the awareness of coaching is increasing right along with it.

 

Students are required to be mentor coached during their training by an ICF certified PCC/PACC or MCC/MACC mentor coach of their choosing. This is not provided by ADDCA. There is a separate fee paid to the mentor coach. Mentor coaching is a requirement for graduation at all levels for certification at ADDCA, PAAC, and/or ICF.

This mentor coaching can occur any time during the students' training, and the mentor must hear the student coach and write up feedback. This feedback will be submitted to ADDCA as part of the graduation application.

All students in levels from  the Personal Transformation course through the Advanced Course are assigned to either a learning partner or triad group and asked to meet weekly to complete their learning partner fieldwork, found at the beginning of each module.

We realize that these hours do not count toward training or certification, but they are an integral part of our training, and many excellent learning insights are brought back into classes from this student work. We do encourage students in the Simply ADHD Course to work with partners as well as it enhances the training experience. The only form of assessment that we make from these workgroups is based on questions we ask in class.

If you fall below 80% of the teleclasses (no less then 70%), you will be able to listen to the teleclass recording, submit an online form and receive credit for attendance.  

All of our teleclasses are recorded so that you can listen to them 24/7 on your computer or download them to your iPod, iPad or mp3 player.

We have many health care professionals, including therapists, psychologists, social workers, etc. who come into our program.  They all follow the same curriculum unless they have prior basic coach-specific training from another accredited ICF (International Coach Federation) training organization. 

In terms of the ADHD training, we work from a strengths-based model as opposed to a medical model.  Our Simply ADHD course gives you foundational models and language we use throughout ADDCA.  Past students with a great deal of ADHD experience have come to us at the end of the course and told us how much they had learned. Therefore, we want everyone coming into ADDCA  to have this prerequisite training as their foundation.

Each of our programs are divided into distinct courses.  Each course requires different  time requirements.  See below for an approximate breakdown.

Simply ADHD Course (M-99)

• Two 90 minute teleclasses per week - 3 hours/week
• Outside reading/homework - 1 -2  hours /week

Personal Transformation Course (M-100)

• 2 ninety-minute teleclasses per week - 3 hours/week
• Meet with learning partner -1 hour /week
• Outside reading/homework -  2-3  hours  /week

Basic ADHD Coach Training Course (M-101-104)

• 2 ninety-minute teleclasses per week - 3 hours/week
• 1 sixty-minute Supervised Coaching Session- 1 hour (6 times throughout course)
• Meet with learning partner -1 hour /week
• Outside reading/homework - 1 -2 hours /week
• Outside time with Mentor Coach not included (see graduation requirements)

Advanced ADHD Coach Training Course (M-201-207)

• 2 ninety-minute teleclasses per week - 3 hours/week
• 1 sixty-minute Supervised Coaching Session- 1 hour (10 times throughout course)
• Meet with learning partner -1 hour /week
• Outside time with Mentor Coach  not included (see graduation requirements)

Most definitely. One of the great benefits that only the ADD Coach Academy coach training program can offer is for those who have ADHD themselves they will go through the process of identifying their own challenges, how they impair their quality of life, then begin the process of customizing strategies that work the way they're unique brain wiring works and then began to implement them. This significantly improves their ability to understand their client and receive them with listening skills that reveal a sincere awareness and understanding of what their clients go through on a daily basis. The understanding of individuals ADHD and the ability to get right to the bottom line of what's going on is what makes our coaches so excellent and it is the foundation for building a strong and powerful foundation for trusting partnership between coaching client.

Many of the coaches who have been trained at the ADD Coach Academy are making a significant and positive difference in the world.

In the United States many of our coaches have been:

Working at the some of the finest ADHD clinics in the world like the Hallowell Center and the Rochester Behavioral Center for Medicine, coaching children and or their parents, adolescents, teenagers, young adults, adults and senior citizens.

Advocating for parents and their children in school systems, colleges and universities across the country to support them with the optimal accommodations for the improvement of each child’s academic performance and to dramatically improve the child's or young adult's academic experience throughout their academic years.

Most of the coaches at the Academy have created their own coaching practices that serve all the major categories and age groups of individuals with ADHD that are challenged by their lack of understanding of ADHD and who want to be empowered, to successfully manage their challenges and identify their strengths, values and passion so they can integrate more of those into their life.

We have coaches who have also served on the boards and committees of organizations like ADDA Attention Deficit Disorder Association and CHADD. Many have even started and/or served as leaders of CHADD chapters across the United Sates and Canada.

The efforts of our coaches are not just limited to the US, we have some excellent coaches who have graduated building a coaching practice in their respective countries and students who have trained and/or are training from England, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Israel, Turkey, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Brazil, Italy.

We know that through the work and efforts of all ADD Coach Academy coaches and staff we are making a huge and positive difference for many individual with ADHD around the world.

All students in levels from  the Personal Transformation course through the Advanced Course are assigned to either a learning partner or triad group and asked to meet weekly to complete their learning partner fieldwork, found at the beginning of each module.

We realize that these hours do not count toward training or certification, but they are an integral part of our training, and many excellent learning insights are brought back into classes from this student work. We do encourage students in the Simply ADHD Course to work with partners as well as it enhances the training experience. The only form of assessment that we make from these workgroups is based on questions we ask in class.

Each of our programs are divided into distinct courses.  Each course requires different  time requirements.  See below for an approximate breakdown.

Simply ADHD Course (M-99)

• Two 90 minute teleclasses per week - 3 hours/week
• Outside reading/homework - 1 -2  hours /week

Personal Transformation Course (M-100)

• 2 ninety-minute teleclasses per week - 3 hours/week
• Meet with learning partner -1 hour /week
• Outside reading/homework -  2-3  hours  /week

Basic ADHD Coach Training Course (M-101-104)

• 2 ninety-minute teleclasses per week - 3 hours/week
• 1 sixty-minute Supervised Coaching Session- 1 hour (6 times throughout course)
• Meet with learning partner -1 hour /week
• Outside reading/homework - 1 -2 hours /week
• Outside time with Mentor Coach not included (see graduation requirements)

Advanced ADHD Coach Training Course (M-201-207)

• 2 ninety-minute teleclasses per week - 3 hours/week
• 1 sixty-minute Supervised Coaching Session- 1 hour (10 times throughout course)
• Meet with learning partner -1 hour /week
• Outside time with Mentor Coach  not included (see graduation requirements)

We are happy to assist you in any way.  Please contact us at:

Phone: (800) 915-7702 (US)
Phone (518) 557-8890 (Outside US)
info@addca.com

All classes are held on our protected teleconference bridge lines that can accommodate are average class size of 18 -22 students with excellent sound quality. This makes it very convenient for everyone to learn. As long as they have access to a phone they can be available for the classes. We have also been consistently told that all of our students have enjoyed the teleconference format because they could purchase a headset and walk around during the class which really helped them sustain their focus during the calls. They also were able to create an environment with less distractions that they can control rather than if they were in another physical learning environment.

We totally understand your concern about learning from teleclasses because you think that the best way you learn is by visually seeing someone in front of other people. Many of the students, who have completed our program, who have become great coaches, had the same concerns.

What we have also learned over the last 13 years is that most people enjoy learning with teleclass format because:
 

• All teleclasses are recorded so you can download and listen to them on your computer, mp3 player or iPod at any time.

• You don't have to worry about making any impressions with what you are wearing or how you look or feel.

• You don't have to worry about driving to a certain location in traffic and getting lost or being late trying to find the lecture. All you have to do is have your phone.

• It allows you the opportunity to put a headset on and move around, which is helpful if the movement helps you focus. In many physical locations you can't just get up and walk around when you feel you are unable to focus.

• You can create the most natural learning environment for the way your brain accesses and filters information.

• You will actually learn how you learn in our program. There is no other training program in the world that takes into account all the different learning styles of people with ADHD. One of the things you will learn is how you learn and how you can customize your environment to learn the way your brain needs to receive information and stimuli from your environment.

Additionally, you will also receive a very comprehensive, well-written and organized manual which is written in large type with visual illustrations and models and all your classes will be outlined with specific objectives for each class.

We have told been told by most of our students that they prefer to learn this way and now that they've experienced it, they prefer it over any other kind of learning environment.

If you have attended our free teleclass, you probably found it to be more lecture style. When you register for one of our courses/programs your will experience more interaction. We include visual prompts, tools and materials that will keep your interest and attention!

 

A Teleclass is a live, interactive class that is conducted over the telephone, similar to a conference call.