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“A key part of the scaffolding is the understanding that we all have bad days, whether neurodivergent or not, and empathy and compassion should remain an underlying feature. Fluctuations in performance should be expected, just as with any employee, but the scaffolding gives neurodivergent people the best chance of maintaining consistency.”
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“A Guy Named Guy
ADHD: Coaching vs Scaffolding”
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“This is where the current support offering falls down. Most working people can obtain ADHD coaching through Access to Work, but anything else has to be paid for privately. In my case, a combination of therapy and scaffolding support would have been the best approach, but therapy cannot be obtained through Access to Work, and the scaffolding support doesn’t seem to exist as a standalone service.”
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ADHD: Coaching vs Scaffolding”
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“Even if it did, it would need to be a holistic service that encompassed life outside of work, so it would be unlikely to be something that Access to Work would fund. I’m sure there are some very good ADHD coaches out there that offer this service, but there is no regulation in the coaching sector and as a result, competence across providers varies greatly.”
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ADHD: Coaching vs Scaffolding”
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“The problem isn’t ADHD coaching in itself – it’s the fact that the prescription of coaching is the default response, when scaffolding will, in many cases, be far more appropriate. Coaching can only get you so far – to understanding – and as valuable as this is, understanding has limited value without the function provided by scaffolding.”
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ADHD: Coaching vs Scaffolding”
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I recently came across the concept of “scaffolding” in educational psychology.
It gave me language to explain the gap between knowing what helps, and actually being able to function.
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