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Strategies
- Teach organizational skills; keep daily activity supplies in a designated place; make a list and check off each item as it is completed. Try a schoolwork communication folder, with or without communication cards.
- Use pictures to make expectations clear, especially for young children. For example, if it's hard to get out of the house in the morning, use a sequence of pictures that can be checked off as they are completed to help keep a child organized.
- Prepare for transitions. For transitions between work activities,
use a work system.
For transitions between activities, try larger schedules.
For example, young children with ADHD may be less impatient if
they have a clear understanding of what their day will be like.
The same strategies are useful with older children and adults
- just replace pictures with written descriptions .
- Make a space with few distractions; remove things that draw attention away from the task. Some children might respond well to a study tent.
- Make eye contact when giving directions and have the person repeat them.
- Break up tasks into small segments; give directions for each segment separately.
- Increase structure during learning tasks. Activities from the Home Teaching Kit might also be helpful.
- Reward completion of small tasks; provide personalized rewards.
Use forms for sticker charts
to make the rewards concrete and enhance their effectiveness.
Older children may be able to use more complicated reward systems,
like working toward a large reward for successful completion of
a task or chore five days out of seven.
- Schedule times for physical activity; take breaks throughout a long or tedious task.
- Teach social skills to improve peer relationships and reciprocal work and play. One aspect of this is learning to respond appropriately to facial expressions.
- Please check our list of all resources at Site Map to see if there are other items that can help your child.
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Disabilities 
