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Organizational and Study Skills for the ADHD School Child.

The ADHD child is often easily distracted and has difficulty focusing their attention on assigned school tasks. However, the following practices can help the ADHD child improve their organization of homework and other daily school assignments.

  • Designate one teacher as the ADHD child’s school advisor or coordinator: This school teacher will regularly review the ADHD child’s progress through progress reports submitted by other teachers and will act as the liaison between home and school. Permit the student to meet with this advisor on a regular basis (e.g., Monday morning) to plan and organize for the week and to review progress and problems from the past week.

  • Assignment notebooks: Provide the ADHD child with an assignment notebook to help organize homework and other school work.

  • Color-coded folders: Provide the ADHD child with color-coded folders to help organize assignments for different school subjects (e.g., reading, mathematics, social science, science).

  • Work with a homework partner: Assign the ADHD child a partner to help record homework and other school work in the assignment notebook and file work sheets and other papers in the proper folders.

  • Clean out desks and book bags: Ask the ADHD child to periodically sort through and clean out his or her desk, book bag, and other special places where school assignments are stored.

  • Visual aids as reminders of subject material: Use banners, charts, lists, pie graphs, and diagrams situated throughout the classroom to remind the ADHD child of the subject material being learned.

Assisting the ADHD Child with School Time Management: The ADHD child often has difficulty finishing school assignments on time and can thus benefit from special school materials and practices that help them to improve their time management skills, including:

  • Use a clock or wristwatch: Teach the ADHD child how to read and use a clock or wristwatch to manage time when completing assigned school work.

  • Use a calendar: Teach the ADHD child how to read and use a calendar to schedule school assignments.

  • Practice sequencing activities: Provide the ADHD child with supervised opportunities to break down a long school assignment into a sequence of short, interrelated activities.

  • Create a daily activity schedule: Tape a schedule of planned daily activities to the ADHD child’s desk.

Helpful Study Skills for the ADHD Child: The ADHD child often has difficulty in learning how to study effectively on their own. The following strategies may assist the ADHD child in developing the study skills necessary for school success:
 

  • Adapt worksheets: Teach the ADHD child how to adapt school worksheets. For example, help a child fold his or her reading worksheet to reveal only one question at a time. The child can also use a blank piece of paper to cover the other questions on the page.

  • Venn diagrams: Teach the ADHD child how to use Venn diagrams to help illustrate and organize key concepts in reading, mathematics, or other school subjects.

  • Note-taking skills: Teach a child with ADHD how to take notes when organizing key academic concepts that he or she has learned, perhaps with the use of a program such as Anita Archer’s Skills for School Success.

  • Checklist of frequent mistakes: Provide the ADHD child with a checklist of mistakes that he or she frequently makes in written school assignments (e.g., punctuation or capitalization errors), mathematics (e.g., addition or subtraction errors), or other academic subjects. Teach the child how to use this list when proofreading his or her work at home and school.

  • Checklist of homework supplies: Provide the ADHD child with a checklist that identifies categories of items needed for homework assignments (e.g., books, pencils, and homework assignment sheets).

  • Uncluttered workspace: Teach a child with ADHD how to prepare an uncluttered workspace to complete school assignments. For example, instruct the child to clear away unnecessary books or other materials before beginning his or her seatwork.

  • Monitor homework assignments: Keep track of how well your students with ADHD complete their assigned school homework. Discuss and resolve with them and their parents any problems in completing these assignments. For example, evaluate the difficulty of the assignments and how long the children spend on their homework each night. Keep in mind that the quality, rather than the quantity, of homework assigned is the most important issue. While doing homework is an important part of developing study skills, it should be used to reinforce skills and to review material learned in class, rather than to present, in advance, large amounts of material that is new to the student.

This guide on school and the ADHD child, provided by the U.S. Department of Education, provides an overall educational strategy for successful instruction, academic instruction tips on introducing lessons, conducting lessons, providing individualized instructional practices for math and language arts, organizational and study skills, effective behavioral techniques and techniques designed to encourage positive behavior, along with classroom accommodation tips. To order a hard copy of this ADD teaching report, e-mail edpubs@inet.ed.gov or call (877) 433-7827.


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