Actress Wendy Davis on ADHD Tools and Executive Functioning Strategies
Hear actress Wendy Davis of Lifetime's Army Wives discuss the executive functioning strategies she and her daughter use to help stay organized. These tools and technologies are great ideas...
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We do a lot of dictation, which is fantastic. It's a great way for her to get her ideas down on paper, and then we can go back and modify. We use the iPad. We utilize her camera on her phone, like when she's taking down her assignments. She'll take a picture of the board so I can see exactly what the homework assignment is. So we're using technology, and it's fantastic. I wish that I would have had technology when I was growing up. It would have been a lot easier. Well, I'm big on calendars and to-do lists, and I've got an alarm set on everything. Even if it's something that I do regularly, that alarm will remind me. And, sometimes, I literally will have forgotten that that task is coming up, and so I'm big on alarms. I'...
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We do a lot of dictation, which is fantastic. It's a great way for her to get her ideas down on paper, and then we can go back and modify. We use the iPad. We utilize her camera on her phone, like when she's taking down her assignments. She'll take a picture of the board so I can see exactly what the homework assignment is. So we're using technology, and it's fantastic. I wish that I would have had technology when I was growing up. It would have been a lot easier. Well, I'm big on calendars and to-do lists, and I've got an alarm set on everything. Even if it's something that I do regularly, that alarm will remind me. And, sometimes, I literally will have forgotten that that task is coming up, and so I'm big on alarms. I'...
