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Michelle PogueMichelle Pogue

The hardest thing for ADHD students are staying focused and

staying on task.

Teachers can help minimize these areas by

teaching survival strategies in the

classroom. Seat children where distractions are minimized• Center constructive criticism between compliments• Find opportunities to allow hyperactive children to use

their energy• Have a child look directly at your eyes when speaking

to them• Keep directions short and simple

Teaching life skills • Getting students to

think about the “What Ifs”

• Students could write what this looks like to them and how they would feel.

Visualize What Goes On In A ADHD

Person

• ADHD people some times feel like their minds are like televisions that have an uncontrollable channel changer.

• ADHD people cannot filter out certain distractions and may loose main focus on the task at hand.

• Distractions come in the form of sights, sounds, and thoughts that flood the brain.

• All these distractions are competing with each other.

Hyper Focus• ADHD people can

also exhibit a form of ordinary concentration which enables them to hyper-focus.

• This is where they become focused on one thing for a very long period of time.

• This creates students to write about the same thought continuously or multiple amounts of times in the same paragraph.

Disorganization is Disorganization is another trait of an another trait of an

ADHD person.ADHD person.

Disorganization is Disorganization is another trait of an another trait of an

ADHD person.ADHD person. It is hard enough to stay focused on It is hard enough to stay focused on one thing and twice as hard to think one thing and twice as hard to think about how to organize one’s self or about how to organize one’s self or

thoughts. thoughts.

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