drrussel a barkley makes a very great point when he says that teaching skills in adhd is basically useless without pharmacological treatment and even then it should be more on building behavioral interventions rather that skills but both are still heavily dependent upon the efficiency of pharmacological treatment   a planner doesnt help when you  -forget it   -forget to write in it   -lose it  -attempt to write something in it and then get distracted and forgot what you were going to write or totally forgot what you were doing   -dont have a writing utensil   -forget to check the planner when you finally do write things in it   the list goes on a planner can help but its very dependent on other factors if its going to benefit at all also it only helps with like a very small fraction of adhd symptomology you then have the list of problems that occur when your actually reminder by the planner to do something then you have all the problems that come with ya know actually doing it like beginning it not getting distracted finishing it in time not making careless mistakes oh what if the planner reminds you when youre in the middle of something and youre giving that dilemma of droping one thing and potentially forgetting the other yeah its not easy