Practices

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Not knowing how to do an ordinary thing, a bank transfer, a form, a phone call to book something, says nothing about your intelligence. It says nobody ever sat down and showed you.

These gaps hide well, because they embarrass people in a way that larger problems somehow do not. Someone can talk fluently about difficult ideas and…

Twenty minutesSystems for daily lifeADHD skillsQur’an 5:2One line of research

University is one route, not the route. Saying so only helps if you can name the others, so find out what actually exists before you have the conversation.

Apprenticeships, supported employment schemes, part time study, a trade, working while doing one course at a time. In many places there are publicly…

Twenty minutesSystems for daily lifeADHD skillsQur’an 16:43One line of research

Pick the place that will actually hold the person, not the one with the better name on the letterhead. Three years somewhere that fits beats one term somewhere that does not.

Ask concrete questions before anyone commits. Who notices when a student stops turning up. How are adjustments actually arranged, and by whom. How…

Twenty minutesSystems for daily lifeADHD skillsQur’an 28:26One line of research

Before asking for something new, find out what has already been agreed. A great many adjustments sit unused on paper because the student was never told, or the teacher was never told.

Get hold of the actual document and read it properly. Extra time, a quiet room, not being made to read aloud, notes given in advance: these are often…

Twenty minutesSystems for daily lifeADHD skillsQur’an 18:95

There is more about focus, starting, and adhd than the practices: the focus, starting, and adhd area has the themes and the courses too.

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Start with less work than they can manage, not more, and add back slowly. Break the long jobs into pieces small enough that each one can be finished and noticed.

Setting the first week deliberately below capacity feels like giving in. What it actually does is produce a run of finished things, and a child who…

Twenty minutesSystems for daily lifeADHD skillsQur’an 22:78One line of research

Teach the school's online system properly, once, and then treat it as something known. I do not know how to use it cannot stay true forever.

Sit down together and go through it: where assignments appear, how to see what is due, what to do when it will not load. Until that has happened,…

Twenty minutesSystems for daily lifeADHD skillsQur’an 27:40One line of research

Sort the room out before you sort the willpower out. One agreed place to work, television off, phone in another room for the duration.

Attention here is pulled by whatever is brightest, and a phone face down on the table still wins. Taking the competition out of the room is far more…

Twenty minutesSystems for daily lifeADHD skillsQur’an 12:55One line of research

Guard sleep first, especially through any long stretch away from the usual routine. Once the nights slide, everything else you have set up starts giving way.

Holidays, illness and school closures are when bedtimes drift, and a fortnight of late nights undoes more than any homework plan can fix. Keep the…

Twenty minutesSystems for daily lifeADHD skillsQur’an 12:47One line of research

Put the schoolwork early in the day and let the screens come after it. For a teenager early means later than you would like, but the order stays the same.

Effort is a thing that runs down through a day, so the demanding job goes where there is most of it left. Teenagers really do wake up later, and…

Twenty minutesSystems for daily lifeADHD skillsQur’an 12:47One line of research

Time with people is not the nice extra you get to once the real work is done. Put it alongside sleep, medication and exercise rather than underneath them.

It helps to treat it like any other part of a plan, with something specific in the week rather than a general intention to be more social. One…

Twenty minutesFeelings and focusADHD skillsQur’an 2:45One line of research

Belonging to the group does nothing. Going does. Having a friend does nothing either, unless you see them.

So count the actual events. How many times this week did you sit with someone, not message them. A number you can check beats a resolution to be more…

Twenty minutesFeelings and focusADHD skillsQur’an 8:11One line of research

When someone has gone flat, the question is not what they ought to be doing. It is what still has any life in it for them, however small or unimpressive, and then how to get more of that.

Activities handed out from the outside do not lift much. Someone who brightens talking about their car, or a cousin, or a game has just given you the…

Twenty minutesFeelings and focusCBTQur’an 94:1One line of research

ADHD rarely turns up on its own. If anxiety or low mood is in the room as well, it needs treating in its own right, and that includes when it is the other partner who is struggling.

This is the part that gets missed in couples. One person becomes the identified patient and everybody works on them, while the other one's untreated…

Twenty minutesFeelings and focusADHD skillsQur’an 2:153One line of research

Explain the calming corner on a quiet Tuesday, not in the middle of a meltdown. New instructions do not go in once a child is already rising.

Walk them through it when nothing is happening. This is where it is, this is what you can do there, this is how you come back. Let the whole class…

Twenty minutesFeelings and focusADHD skillsQur’an 23:97One line of research

Whatever the correction is, teach it before you need it. A routine the child already knows can be started with two words instead of a negotiation in front of everybody.

Show them the table, the worksheets, what happens when they finish, and let them try it once while nothing is wrong. After that the instruction is…

Twenty minutesFeelings and focusADHD skillsQur’an 48:4One line of research

If you are helping someone get moving, start with the thing they mind about, even when you can see something else that needs it more. A goal a person picked for themselves is the only kind they will chase when you are not in the room.

Keep that first target small and specific enough to finish: one drawer, one email, the bag by the door on Tuesday. The thing you can see needs…

Twenty minutesGet startedADHD skillsQur’an 5:48One line of research

If a task gives you nothing, bring something to it. Ring the cousin you never speak to and paint while you talk. Do the filing beside a friend who has their own filing to do.

This is a design fix rather than a failure of discipline. Dull work asks your brain to stay somewhere that offers it no reason to stay. Pair it with…

Twenty minutesGet startedADHD skillsQur’an 2:45One line of research

Sometimes the first job is working out what the job is. Go back to whoever asked, or spend twenty minutes finding out, and count that as the work it is.

Ask the plain questions: what is this for, who reads it, what matters most, how long should it be. People hold back because they feel they should…

Twenty minutesGet startedADHD skillsQur’an 96:1One line of research

Attention and impulse problems that appear for the first time in middle age or later are not ADHD arriving late. They need a doctor to look, not a prescription.

Several conditions affecting the frontal lobes can show up first as new disinhibition, poor judgement or a change in personality, and some are…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 21:7One line of research

Ask whether anyone kept the old school reports. The same lines turn up generation after generation: not working to potential, talks too much, never has the right books with him.

They were written by teachers who had never heard of ADHD, about children nobody was going to assess, and that is exactly what makes them worth…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 96:5One line of research