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Welcome to It's NOTED, LLC:

Neurodivergents Overcoming The Executive Functioning Deficit

(Functioning is silent ... get it? Ha!)


At It's NOTED, we specialize in helping families with neurodivergent profiles overcome executive functioning challenges, providing tailored solutions for home, community, and educational success.

 

A lack of executive functioning skills is VERY much a part of our lives in neurodivergency and is NOT a reflection of poor parenting or a lack of effort. Each of our needs is unique and there isn't a cookie-cutter approach as is often presented. We all learn skills differently and at different paces and in different ways, and that is the beauty of our neurodivergency!!!

 

We've streamlined multiple resources, hundreds of hours of education, Masters levels courses, specialties in Neuroscience, all into one concise program - highlighting effective methods that can easily be woven into daily life in multiple environments.

 

We also work with students who need supports in Reading Comprehension and Writing. When we lack executive functioning skills, it can directly impact language, reading, and writing - especially on large research papers.

In person services are done in affiliation with
The Learning Loft 
565 Rounseville Rd., Rochester, MA

NOW OFFERING SCHOOL
& IEP SUPPORTS: 

 

At It's NOTED, LLC, we can review neuropsychs and school testing, along with IEPs, to help you understand the cognitive profile of your child and what supports are needed for them to fully grow into their potential. We also can help you understand and develop IEP goals for your children and represent their needs in an IEP meeting. 

What makes us different? Not only can we help support you in understanding your child's unique profile and securing school supports, but we can also customize and provide 1:1 supports to help shore up any gaps quicker.

 

Please note, there's never any guarantees if supports will help close the gaps as every child and every brain is different and each one responds differently. We use neuroscience and research  based best practices to try and unlock your child's potential. 

Available Services

Executive Functioning Coaching

At It's NOTED, we review your concerns, along with available testing, and develop a customized strategy to help your child learn executive functioning skills in a safe, supportive 1:1 setting. During these sessions, we use research-based, neuroscience backed games and strategies to help unlock blocks within the brain to help improve executive functioning. We also incorporate academics to help students gain the study skills, written expression, and reading comprehension skills they need to succeed. 

 

Small Group Coaching Sessions

At It's NOTED, we utilize the warm, welcoming space at The Learning Loft in Rochester to organize small group coaching and strategizing for like peers. By connecting like families, we help you grow your supportive circle and natural supports in a safe, supportive environment. 

 

IEP/Educational Consulting Supports 

Executive Functioning is often brushed off as a "everyone struggles" deficit, but this isn't accurate. Some children require far more supports to shore up these gaps than others.

At It's NOTED, we're here to review your child's individualized tests and help guide you in the special education world, how to secure additional testing, and how to advocate for your child. 

 

We are here to support you and your child!  

ELA Tutoring

At It's NOTED, we're qualified to help tutor in the English Language Arts in the areas of reading comprehension, expressive writing, and responsive writing. As an experienced educator and writer, we can deep dive into teaching various techniques that can help students who struggle in these areas due to a host of challenges, from specific learning disabilities to neurodivergency.

In person tutoring is done in affiliation with The Learning Loft in Rochester, Ma. The Learning Loft also offers tutoring in other subjects!

 

Workshops and Seminars

Understanding the world of neuroscience and executive functioning can often feel like you're drowning in understanding a foreign language while you're in crisis. That's why we strive so hard to break down the challenges your child may be facing in an easily digestible manner. 

We're excited to have some incredible webinars coming on the horizon that help parents understand how impactful executive functioning deficits can have for children and their lives, as well as ways we can support them!

 

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Executive Functioning?

Executive functioning refers to the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully.

For example, ADHD is more than just an attention deficit - really we see everything at once. I commonly explain it as we've just gone shopping and our cart is full of food. For a neurotypical, when you ask for the steak, they can pull out and hand you the steak. For the ADHD brain, we have to sift through the whole basket touching everything until we find the steak ... it's hard to just pull it out! Our brains are designed differently so we often struggle with task management, emotion regulation, memory retention, and more. However, we can gain these skills with practice - and patience (ok and tears) - which is the goal of It's NOTED.

We approach executive functioning development from a lived experience approach along with hours of education and certifications on top of 20+ years experience in crisis communications. We've walked through and gotten stuck in the same mud and are ready to help pull you out onto a more solid path.

Let us help you understand the world of neurodivergency and unlocking the hidden skills. 

PS We personally know how difficult it is to support our kids gaining these skills that we lack ourselves!

How Do You Tailor Your Services?

On top of being an experienced educator with hundreds of hours of professional development in the areas of executive functioning and neuroscience, we are also lived experience parents who understand the challenges of raising neurodivergent children while also being neurodivergent ourselves.

Recognizing the superpower that lies within our resiliency, we strive to engage, strengthen, and develop the lacking executive functioning skills seen in ADHD and mental health (also a form of neurodivergency). 

Who Can Benefit From Our Services?

Our programs are beneficial for neurodivergent families seeking to improve their executive functioning skills, including students and adults. Please come with an open mind and a desire to learn, brainstorm, and be awkward. Within our sessions, masking isn't allowed as being our authentic selves is where the beauty lies. 

About It's NOTED

 

I thought growing up was hard ... and then I became a parent.

 

Watching my sons grow up with similar struggles was heart wrenching and I didn't want them to have to stumble - learning with emotionally skinned knees like I did. When my kids were young, I became engrossed in fully learning about our flavor of neurodivergency and mental health challenges.  Because, let's be real for a second, how could I - who has all these same struggles - truly help them develop what I lacked? It was terrifying!

 

Falling back on my English degree that built a strong secondary educational and research foundation, I jumped into the mental health advocacy world fighting hard for the voices of our teens to be heard - especially our twice exceptional ADHD boys. For their struggles to be understood.  For their hearts to be seen and felt. What I found was a lack of resources tailored to shoring up the executive functioning deficits so many of us face that can significantly impact our worlds. In true ADHD fashion, I became a collector of textbooks, courses, certifications, and academic journals - learning everything I could about executive functioning and unwrapping the neurodivergent blocks. While those of us with ADHD & mental health struggles may never hit the neurotypical ability to be perfectly super organized, highly efficient at tackling tasks, or perfectionists at emotion regulation, there are tools to learn to make it easier and more fluid for us so we don't have to struggle as hard.

 

Together we can explore shoring up our weaknesses in a socially awkward, non-judgmental environment. 

 

Enveloping my love for language and writing, I also work 1:1 or in small groups with all  students who need extra supports in the English Language Arts. We can work on reading, reading comprehension, and writing difficulties. I have experience working with Specific Learning Disabilities in addition to my ADHD certifications.

 

My background also includes working as an editor for a specialized reading program and writing/developing specialized curriculum for a wide range of ages. I am also a published writer/author who can adapt writing styles to fit a myriad of needs.

 

Welcome to It's NOTED where we embrace - with no apologies - our neurodiversity.

 

With Sprinkles of NeuroSpice,

Michelle (Wood) Lynds

 

Contact us

This form doesn't always work so if you don't hear back within 24 hours, please  call/text 508.641.6720 or email me at adhdnoted@gmail.com.

Location

It's NOTED, LLC

In person tutoring offered at The Learning Loft at 565 Rounseville Rd, Rochester, MA

 

Covering the Wareham/New Bedford area as well as Cape Cod! Reach out for more details and a customized for your child plan. 

 

508-641-6720 | adhdnoted@gmail.com