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Supporting students with ADHD requires understanding their unique profiles.

Marion Marshall, MS
Fellow and Member of AET since 1996

Excellent article to share with clients and families, offering clear insights into how best to support students with ADHD. Perfect read for anyone supporting a learner with unique needs. Next Psychology Today blog editors called it an “Essential Read”. #ADHD #Neurodiversity #ExecutiveFunction #EducationalTherapy

“Kamil, focus!”
Kamil can focus on things that are interesting to him, such as playing a game online. Often, when he is engaged in a class, his flow of thought gets interrupted by the bell and he goes to his next class. But once there, he finds himself still thinking about the work he was doing last period. Kamil finds it very difficult to interrupt his thinking and shift to the next period’s subject matter.

“Elena! Pay attention!”
Actually, Elena does pay attention—to too many things at once. The teacher’s voice competes with her feeling of hunger. Isn’t it time for lunch? How did Mira get her hair to be so neatly braided? Who did that for her, or can she do it by herself? How can Elena listen to her group’s discussion when there are so many voices in other groups all speaking nearby and at the same time?

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Marion Marshall, MS, is a Board-Certified Educational Therapist (BCET), a Fellow of Educational Therapy (FAET), and a faculty member of Notre Dame de Namur University’s Educational Therapy graduate program.