Description

ADHD Back-to-School One-Sheet Pack

Practical ADHD support, one page at a time.

Start the school year with clear, actionable information that helps teachers and caregivers understand what ADHD looks like in everyday school performance and what they can do to support it.

The ADHD Back-to-School One-Sheet Pack includes 11 easy-to-use guides designed to help adults move beyond behavior management and better understand the performance barriers behind getting started, completing work, participating, regulating emotions, maintaining focus, and more.

Each one-sheet breaks down an important ADHD concept into practical information and supportive strategies that can be used at school or shared with families.

What’s Included

• ADHD & Getting Started
  Understand why students may know exactly what to do but still struggle to begin.
• The NICE Strategy
  Use Novelty, Interest, Challenge, and Extreme Urgency to increase activation and engagement.
• ADHD & Completing Work
  Identify the executive function barriers that can interfere with following through and finishing tasks.
• ADHD & Participating in Class
  Support the executive control skills students need to listen, respond, contribute, and stay engaged.
• The 30% Rule
  Reframe expectations through the developmental lag often associated with ADHD.
• Performance Supports
  Shift from knowledge or skill based support to changing the conditions that help them perform successfully.
• Quick Environment Tips
  Simple classroom changes that can reduce unnecessary demands and support attention, regulation, and participation.
• Focus Prompts
  Support attention in a way that develops executive function without repeatedly telling students to “focus” or “pay attention.”
• ADHD & Rejection Sensitivity
  Better understand intense responses to perceived criticism, failure, or rejection and how adults can respond supportively.
• ADHD & Emotional Regulation
  Understand why knowing a coping strategy does not always mean a student can access it when emotions are high.
• Strength-Based Supports
  Help students recognize their strengths while building strategies that support areas of challenge.

Perfect For

School-based OTs, teachers, special educators, related service providers, school psychologists, counselors, administrators, and caregivers supporting students with ADHD.

Use the sheets for:

Back-to-school teacher education • parent communication • team meetings • professional development • consultation • 504/IEP support • classroom reference • caregiver education

Support the performance, not just the behavior.

Students with ADHD often know what they are supposed to do. The challenge is consistently accessing that knowledge and turning it into action.

These one-sheets give the adults around them a better place to start.