Published On: August 28th, 2017|

Education World – Jim Paterson

“In two important ways teachers are on the front line in the battle to help the soaring number of students who have challenging and frustrating attention issues. On one hand, they face it each day. They motivate students with ADHD to complete work, stay focused, and sort through their overflowing backpacks and binders, all in an atmosphere where the disability is most evident―a classroom filled with distractions yet requiring structure. They are charged with empathetically and patiently training them to improve executive function habits and other key learning skills, when often just getting them to grasp instructions and not disrupt others is a challenge.”(more)