
Discover ADHD study skills grounded in research, learn the top-down approach, master exam strategies, and leverage strengths like hyperfocus and curiosity to improve academic performance.
Discover the cordrenaline effect that drives ADHD individuals to cram last-minute, powered by dopamine, cortisol, and adrenaline, and learn its benefits, risks, and the path to healthier balance.
Use flashcards as a memorization tool, testing yourself with front and back prompts and games. Add colors and shapes to reinforce dates, names, and formulas for ADHD and dyslexia learners.
Explore powerful mnemonic devices, including mind palace concepts and various mnemonic types (order, acronym, spelling, rhyme), to boost memorization, create engaging flashcards, and improve recall for ADHD learners.
Build an ADHD accountability system with weekly or biweekly check-ins with a teacher, tutor, or study group to stay on track, start assignments, and strengthen classroom connections.
Study for exams as a marathon, spreading review through the semester with mind maps and practice tests. Collaborate in study groups, use flashcards, and plan by calendar to avoid cramming.
Apply a stress analysis to outsmart your procrastination style by identifying steps, negative thinking, ambiguity, trauma, sensory issues, and self-care to boost energy and focus for ADHD study skills.
Learn to harness your ADHD superpowers and start earning grades that match your ACTUAL potential and intellect (without sacrificing your mental health 8 sanity)!
Award-winning psychotherapist & Asst. Clin. Professor (Adj.) Alina Kislenko, who has ADHD herself and specializes in it (so....she gets it) takes you through cutting edge, research-supported methods and counter-intuitive approaches that you've likely never tried before. AND, you get to learn all this in short little videos while laughing along with Alina's absurd analogies, dark sense of humour, and fun graphics (she'll do anything to help you learn, including embarrassing herself and the ones she loves :p).
Alina herself went from almost failing out of undergrad to graduating in the top of her class from her graduate studies and wants to show you how you can too!
These methods come from her own successful experience improving her grades (and her husband's, who also has ADHD) as well as lessons learned from her thousands of clients during the decade that she's been obsessed with this field.
In This Course, You'll Learn How To:
Predict The 3 Parts of Most Exams (& The ADHD Way To Study For Them!)
Convert Your Learning From Bottom Up To Top Down
Why ADHDers Learn Differently & How to FINALLY Harness Our Intellect (Including a short neurobiology lesson!)
Apply Quick Tricks Right Away To See A Boost In Your Grades
Learn Relationships Between Concepts, The ADHD Way
Memorize anything, including ADHD-friendly memorization tricks
Do The Super Student Method
Avoid & Recover From The Dreaded Slide (The Cause Of Most Of Our Pain)
Tame The Last Minute Monster (And All About The Cordrenaline Effect that Causes It)
Start (and finish!) Anything Boring & Get It In ON TIME!
How to Start the Semester Off Right
Recognize Your Procrastination Type & Prevent Episodes
Self-Advocate & Access Accommodations and grants
The videos in this course were filmed all over the world while Alina was travelling for international advocacy work, including Bali, Cuba, Quebec, and Italy, which adds a bit of extra oomph to the course!
This course was made for us ADHDers, but would do wonders to anyone's grades!
What people have said about Alina Kislenko's Previous ADHD Courses:
"I wish I'd seen this 20 years ago! They should teach this in school. My son LOVED this course, and you usually can't get him away from his video games!"
- Dr. Loraine Murphy, Cardiologist
"I've tried dozens of courses on ADHD and this is the first to have changed my life."
- Erik Wong, IT
"Alina is silly, brilliant, and definitely one of us! So much better than learning from a stuffed shirt who takes themselves too seriously Her classes are professional and informative, and the first place where anything about ADD brain chemistry ever stuck!!"
- Pat Rodrìguez, Paralegal