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Focus, starting, and ADHD
Most advice about focus is written for a brain that starts easily. This area is not. It covers what ADHD actually is, how to make a start when starting is the hard part, how to bring a future consequence close enough to feel, and how to stop paying for it in shame.
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24 practicesTheme · Systems for daily life
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Score each target from one to five rather than done or not done, and have the teacher say a word about it and initial the sheet before the child leaves the room.
Half the work finished earns a three. That matters enormously for a child whose usual score would be nothing at all, because a pass or fail sheet…
Let the child score themselves on the same sheet the teacher scores. Two columns, filled in separately, then looked at together.
At first the two columns can be miles apart, and that is the useful bit rather than a problem. Nobody is being caught out. Over the weeks the gap…
Before anything else, check the child actually knows what the homework is. Most homework goes missing at that first step, not at the effort step.
It might be on the board, on the school portal or in the planner with the teacher having glanced at it, and any of those is fine as long as it can be…
Print the agreement out and stick it up where the child will see it. In a drawer it may as well not exist.
The moment that matters is the one where the console is right there and the maths is not started, and nothing you agreed a fortnight ago is in the…