School Accommodations for ADHD: Specific Ideas for Focus and Inattention

Inattentiveness can wreak havoc on a child's ability to learn at school.  The following accommodations may help your child to stay on task at school, or even at home.

• Student to be paired with a "buddy" student, or an aide.
• Student to be seated near the teacher, or apart from other students.  This is also known as "preferential seating".
• Student to be allowed to test in a separate, quiet room with no other students.  Student to be given extra time for tests.
• Student to be given instructions in written format, or to be given instructions one step at a time with frequent check ins for redirection as necessary.
• Teacher/aide to check child's bag before and after school.  (Before for homework, after for materials needed for homework.)
• Teacher to write assignments in an assignment book, or to email assignments to parent.
• Student to be allowed an extra set of books at home.
• Student to be allowed less homework.

Inattentive students may also be helped by appropriately addressing their hyperactivity by allowing nondistracting movement or fidgeting.    This is because instead of focusing their attention on keeping still, the students are able to focus on the teacher and the lesson instead.

If you know of any accommodations that have helped your inattentive child which I have not included here, please leave a comment!

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