Actionable Support for Students with ADHD
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Overcoming Homework Challenges for Students with ADHD
With Halloween just around the corner, let’s delve into something that can be downright scary for many families – homework.… Read more
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Executive Function Coaching for ADHD -What is it, does it work and can an OTP do it?
Using Executive Function Coaching in School-Based Occupational Therapy to Facilitate Performance of Students with ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)… Read more
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Declarative Language for Developing Executive Functioning Skills in Children with ADHD
Discover how a simple shift in communication can fuel the development of essential executive functioning skills in children. Learn how… Read more
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ADHD and Finishing: 10 Essential Strategies for Task Completion
10 Essential Strategies for Task Completion Have you ever gone to Target with a simple mission, like buying toothpaste, only… Read more
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Understanding ADHD: 7 Must-Read Books for Educators and Parents
Discover our top 7 books about ADHD for educators and parents. Gain valuable insights and actionable tips to better understand… Read more
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Understanding the Lesser Known Challenges of ADHD: What Teachers Need to Know
ADHD encompasses far more than just inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. In fact, a difficulty with attention, excess energy and impulsivity… Read more
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Embracing Neurodiversity: Empowering Students with ADHD
Neurodiversity is a powerful concept that celebrates the natural variations in the human brain, recognizing that neurological differences, like those… Read more
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Fidgets and ADHD: A Focus Tool or a Toy?
Navigating the Gray Area Long before TikTok, school-based occupational therapy practitioners commonly provided “fidgets” to students in need of an… Read more
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The Complexities of Attention: Supporting Students with ADHD
How often do you hear the statement “They have trouble with attention” when discussing a child’s academic or behavioral performance? Or… Read more
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ADHD and Emotional Regulation
When Emotional Dysregulation Creates a Barrier to Learning for Students with ADHD How to Help in the School Setting I… Read more
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Understanding “Behavioral Interventions” for ADHD- School Based OT’s Role
It’s behavior, not OT? Students with ADHD often experience challenging behaviors that can significantly impact their learning and occupational performance… Read more
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Exploring ADHD Time Blindness: What It Is and What It Means for Classroom Behavior
The content explores time blindness in individuals with ADHD, impacting their temporal awareness and time management. It describes the development… Read more
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How to Support Handwriting Acquisition for Students with ADHD
tudents with ADHD learn best from structured and explicit instruction. This post will provide the reader with evidence-based interventions that… Read more
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The Ultimate Guide to Accommodations for Students with ADHD
Accommodations are Powerful Interventions Accommodations are one of the most effective, evidence-based interventions for students with ADHD in the school… Read more
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ADHD and Social Skills, Perspective Taking
What Teachers Need to Know “But he’s not even sorry” ! When a child does something wrong, for example, breaks… Read more
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ADHD- Improving Self Control in the Classroom
Students with ADHD have significant difficulty with self-control, which subsequently impacts their functional performance in the classroom. Many find it impossible to… Read more
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Homework Horrors – Improving Homework Performance for Students with ADHD
With Halloween coming up (on a Monday!), I figured we could talk about something scary. Homework! Homework is the most… Read more
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Task Initiation and ADHD – Strategies and Support for Getting Started
Task Initiation is the ability to begin an assigned task whether interested or not. This is a core executive function… Read more
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Using Speech to Text to Support Written Expression in Students with ADHD
Students with ADHD often exhibit pervasive difficulty meeting writing demands in the classroom environment. Providing speech to text as an… Read more
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Can’t Sit Still – Classroom Strategies For Sitting Still with ADHD
Why students with ADHD have difficulty sitting still with actionable strategies for decreasing the impact it has upon learning. Read more
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ADHD-Classroom Performance Challenges Deciphering Between “Can’t Do and Won’t Do”
Students with ADHD are tricky. Many appear to have the skills to do what is expected of them yet have… Read more
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Working Memory – The Key to Unlocking Potential in Learners with ADHD
Working memory relates to the information we can pay attention to and manipulate at the moment (while working). For example,… Read more
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Classroom Behavior Management for Students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Elementary School
Teachers need actionable strategies to improve the classroom day-to-day functioning of their students diagnosed with ADHD. Most of the evidence-based… Read more
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Navigating the Barriers – How to Provide Contextually Based “Push In” OT for Students with ADHD
How to Provide Integrated OT Services Contextually based, push in, integrated, in class support, embedded, inclusionary…. Whatever you call it,… Read more
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ADHD and Written Expression
A Challenge Even For the “Handwriting Experts.” Handwriting difficulties are the most common reason for referral to school-based occupational therapy… Read more
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Effective Visual Schedules for ADHD
Ample research supports using visual schedules in the classroom as proactive whole-class behavior management. Visual Schedules are well supported by… Read more
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Executive Functions for Classroom Performance- The 30% Rule
ADHD is a disorder of self-regulation and executive functioning. Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes that act as… Read more
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School-Based Intervention Framework for ADHD
Limiting your Scope? How often have you heard a teacher say, “The student is having difficulty with his OT skills“?… Read more
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Occupational Therapy for ADHD
Together we can educate and empower parents and teachers to finally see our students with ADHD thrive in school. It… Read more
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ADHD and Motivation
Why rewards and consequences don’t work, and what does How is that positive reinforcement plan working out for your ADHD… Read more
The EASE Framework
Stop Just Managing Behavior. Start Supporting Performance.
You’ve Tried Everything… But nothing sticks..
- Sticker charts didn’t work
- Behavior plans faded fast
- Rewards, reminders, and redirections aren’t enough
- You’re not seeing sustainable change
The problem?
You’re being asked to manage behavior without the tools to support the brain-based challenges behind it.
ADHD Is About Performance, Not Behavior. ADHD isn’t about what a child knows, it’s about what they can do in the moment.
The EASE Framework helps school based professionals support participation and performance by addressing functional cognition and self regulation, not just surface behavior.
The EASE Framework: A Clear 4-Step Plan to Support ADHD in Schools
- Educate : Support starts with understanding. Caregiver education is a primary evidenced based intervention. Teachers are caregivers too. To effectively support a student with ADHD caregivers must understand the brain they are working with.
- Accommodate: Reduce the cognitive load and adjust the environment to mitigate the impact ADHD has on learning.
- Scaffold: Support the student’s current executive function abilities, without lowering expectations or removing responsibility. We don’t excuse responsibility, we build the capacity to meet it.
- Empower: Teach students to try differently, not harder, using brain-aligned strategies that actually work.
Kids with ADHD don’t need to try harder; they need a framework to try differently and succeed.
When we Educate the adults, Accommodate the environment, Scaffold executive function, and Empower students to try differently, not harder, we don’t just respond to behavior…we reduce it by building the skills that make participation possible.
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