- Students with ADHD often present difficulty with the approach to a research task.
- Frequently, students with ADHD are disorganized, leading to LOST papers.
- Some students have graphomotor delays, resulting in frustration and sloppy handwriting for paper and pencil tasks. This can make note-taking a painful experience.
- Many students with ADHD have difficulty pinpointing relevant information during the research process.
- ADHD is frequently associated with being a PERFECTIONIST! This can get a student stuck. On the bright side, students with ADHD are often extremely creative. They naturally “think outside the box.”
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- Assist with narrowing down the aspect of the foreign country to be studied.
- Accompany written directions with oral directions, and visual cues whenever possible.
- Repeat directions, as needed. Casually check progress in small increments, to ensure that the target student is on task and on the right track.
- Provide a cooperative learning setting in a small group.
- Carefully select cooperative learning partners, and monitor the role of the student with ADHD.
- Encourage the student to choose hands-on, multi-sensory modalities of expression, such as use of a computer, music, art, or cooking to develop his/her contribution to the group project.
- Encourage all students in a group to staple loose papers into the folder. In this way, everybody stays organized, and the student with ADHD doesn’t appear different from his/her peers.
- Provide folders to keep project papers organized and together.
- Provide encouragement and praise as often as possible to build confidence and to keep the student motivated.
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