You are now able to:
- Define ADHD and recognize some of the challenges of being a student with ADHD
- Locate resources
- Try new strategies to try to help develop executive functioning skills
Additional Resources
University Resources
Boynton Health
Boynton Mental Health Clinic offers psychiatry services (including medication management), neuropsych testing for ADHD and Autism, and mental health counseling.
Boynton's group therapy can be an excellent way to connect with other students with similar experiences. Consider joining the group “Me and My ADHD”.
Disability Resource Center
The Disability Resource Center provides students with ADHD accommodations in accordance with the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Accommodations are determined on an individualized basis.
Disabled Student Cultural Center
The Disabled Student Cultural Center has a variety of events tailored towards neurodiverse populations and meets regularly every semester.
Pet Away Worry & Stress (PAWS)
Boynton Health’s PAWS gives students a chance to de-stress by interacting with animals right here on campus.
Student Counseling Service
Student Counseling Service provides one-to-one meetings with a counselor, and workshops to help with topics such as self-awareness, life balance, stress, and managing change.
Student Writing Center
offers an 'Accountabilibuddy' program. In this program students are paired with a peer who sits with them, holds them accountable, encourages them as they write.
Study Space Finder
Find campus study spaces, computer labs, and more. The study space finder is also available as an app for Android and iOS.
Study Space Finder - Libraries
Find and reserve group study space in one of the Libraries.
Tutoring & Academic Success Center
The Tutoring & Academic Success Center provides peer tutoring, 1:1 academic coaching, skill-building courses, writing and research assistance, and more.
Welcome to Learn to Live
Learn to Live meets you where you’re at by providing tools on mental health topics that fit into your schedule. Your UMN student access code is: UMN
Wellbeing Events Bakken Center
The Bakken Center offers many online and in-person events, workshops, and experiences that can help you manage your wellbeing.
Apps & Software
UMN apps portfolio lists a variety of apps that can help improve your skills related to productivity, studying, stress management, and mindfulness.
Time management - pomodoro apps provides several options to try out to help you track your time more effectively.
Organizations
Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA) is the world’s largest organization dedicated exclusively to helping adults with ADHD to live better lives
Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) provides evidence-based information and support for individuals with ADHD
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) provides information, guidance and training on the Americans with Disability Act
MN Department of Human Rights a source for information on reasonable accommodations
Podcasts

ADHD Rewired is a platform for discussing experiences with ADHD that features guests and experts who share their stories, science, and strategies
Being Well: ADHD Sensitivity, Shame, and Self-Acceptance
Hidden Brain: Buying Attention
Hidden Brain: When to Eat the Marshmallow
Websites
- ADD & Loving It?! PBS documentary (YouTube)
- How to ADHD (YouTube playlist)
- Peer support group for ADHD (Reddit)
- Peer support group for women with ADHD (Reddit)
Books
- ADHD 2.0
- Driven to Distraction
- Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
- How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain
- Level Up Your Life
- Building a Second Brain
- The Bug in Our Brain
- The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success
- The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD
- FAST MINDS: How to thrive if you have ADHD
- The Mindfulness Self Compassion Workbook
- Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating your Emotions and Life with ADHD
- Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear
- ADHD Is Awesome - The Holderness Family
- The ADHD Effect on Marriage
- The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD
Videos
ADHD and Emotions: How Mindfulness Can Help - YouTube
ADHD in Girls and Women - YouTube
ADD & Loving It?! - PBS documentary YouTube
ADHD Social Skills: Deciding Whether A Friendship Is Worth Pursuing - YouTube
ADHD sucks, but not really - TEDxUSU
Combatting Email Management Overwhelm with ADHD - Organization Tips & Hacks
Getting REAL About the Struggle To Make Friends When You Have ADHD - YouTube
How to do laundry when you're depressed - TEDxMileHigh
Mindfulness Rx ADHD - YouTube
This is what it's really like to live with ADHD - TED Talk
Why is it so hard to do something that should be easy? (Wall of Awful pt. 1) - YouTube
How to do something that should be easy but it is not (Wall of Awful pt. 2) - YouTube