Getting Organized with ADHD
Organization is one of the most common struggles that people with ADHD face on a day-to-day basis. It takes tremendous executive function power to organize both physical materials and information in our heads. People with ADHD struggle with their executive functions, making organization extremely difficult without specific tools to help guide them. LEARN MORE ABOUT […]
Understanding ADHD and Executive Function Skills
Challenges with executive function skills go hand-in-hand with ADHD. These difficulties can impact a chid’s ability to organize resources and information, manage time and tasks, and maintain focus and attention. As a result, many kids with these issues are labeled as “lazy,” “scattered,” or a “space cadet,” when in fact they are doing the best […]
How to Organize Information
Students who have trouble with organization don’t just struggle with where to put their things. They also have trouble organizing information, including their own thoughts. As a result, these students struggle in school despite being really smart. They may lose points for not clearly showing their work in math, or struggle to summarize a story […]
Strategies for Helping Kids Get Organized
One of the most common challenges associated with executive function issues is organization. Students who struggle with executive functioning (and even many who don’t) have a hard time organizing information and materials. Depending on the severity of these organizational challenges, students’ academic performance can be moderately impacted at best, and stopped in its tracks at worst. […]
Getting Organized With Google
Thank goodness for Google! Seriously, though, how would we ever survive without it? And for teachers in particular, Google Classroom is a lifesaver. However, I’d argue that Google’s organizational tools are an underutilized and equally powerful resource for supporting students. Once kids learn how to use them, they’re so much more likely to do better in school […]
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