Executive Functions
No Motivation? 5 Steps to Build Drive and Confidence
Teachers and parents can take advantage of these strategies for training focus, combatting...
School & Learning
Universal Design for Learning: 5 Strategies That Benefit Neurodiverse Students
Universal Design for Learning is a teaching approach that aims to support and encourage all types of...
For Teachers
9 ADHD Strategies Every Teacher Should Know
"If I have something subtle to occupy me — like a small fidget toy — I am neither distracted nor...
For Teachers
Attention-Grabbing Teaching Techniques for Distracted Students
Classrooms — filled with students, posters, and more — are major sources of distractions for students...
For Teachers
4 Teacher Tips to Help Students with Spelling
From using magnetic letters to incorporating dance moves, here are four ways to turn spelling into a...
For Teachers
Improving Parent-Teacher Communication
How to defuse tensions, maximize benefits and minimize stress at parent-teacher c...
For Teachers
Lend a Hand with 8 Easy Handwriting Strategies
The mechanics of writing can be tough to master for students with ADHD. Here are eight good ways for...
For Teachers
Classroom Rules That Keep Students' Attention on Learning
How to establish clear expectations, incentives, and consequences for all students in a classroom...
Organization
15 Ways to Teach Better Organization to Kids with ADHD
How teachers and parents can help children with ADHD master better organization and time-management...
Positive Parenting
Don’t Mistake Your Child’s ADHD Symptoms for Bad Behavior
Your child is not deliberately willful, disobedient, scattered, demanding, obnoxious, aggressive, or...
For Teachers
“Remembering to Remember: Easing the Working-Memory Strain on Students with Learning Differences”
“The amount that students – from elementary-age to the college years – have to remember and recall at...
For Teachers
Show and Tell: Defeat Distraction in the Classroom
Teaching students with ADHD is tough, especially if they're prone to distraction. Keep their focus...
For Teachers
ADDitude Asked: The Teacher’s Best
Parents of ADD/ADHD and LD children offered these 11 strategies for teachers to encourage distracted,...
For Teachers
12 Ways to Make Instructions Sink In
How can a child with ADHD follow your instructions if he can't focus long enough to hear them? He...
For Teachers
A Teacher’s Time Toolbox: How to Keep Kids On Schedule
Keeping your students on track can be tough – ADHD or not. Learn how a timer, analog clock, and...