Paul M. Benton, M.ed.

AURA came to be after the culmination of a career teaching special education and leading schools was cut short after a run in with Lyme Disease. In fall of 2019, I medically resigned from my position as the director of a private school in Austin, TX and focused on healing up and finding ways I could still contribute in education despite a barrage of neurological difficulties.

When the pandemic occurred and school drastically changed, I grew concerned about the outcomes for many students. As ideas like digital and asynchronous learning were popularized, the answer became quite obvious in the outcomes- executive functions supports and coaching for teens. Over the years, AURA has supported hundreds of teens and their parents and schools to better understand and support this crucial executive function development that is so challenged by our modern world.

Executive Functioning Coaching is uniquely supportive for students with ADHD and all teens in general because it’s the time of life when our executive functions are rapidly developing. At AURA, we believe that through the AWARENESS of what the executive functions are and how they operate, and the UNDERSTANDING of who we are paired with an exciting and achievable vision of who we want to be, we find the RESPONSIBILITY necessary for the ACTION to accomplish it. That’s AURA in a nutshell.

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~Paul M. Benton