ADHD Strategy Discovery Toolkit: Uncover Strengths, Interests, Values, and Successes

Description

How strength based is your evaluation?  School-based therapists, teachers, coaches, and parents can empower students to identify their own ADHD strategies by identifying strengths, documenting successes, and personalizing interventions. It empowers your student to stop trying harder and start trying differently.

Empower your students by discovering their unique “zone” of focus and engagement, and create personalized strategies that truly work –because they are already working!

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• Identify Interests and Likes and Values : Start by helping your student identify their interests and likes. Understanding what subjects, topics, or activities naturally engage them provides valuable insights into their intrinsic motivations.
• Identify Strengths and Successes with a Schedule Autopsy: Help them identify successful moments by performing a weekly schedule autopsy. List out all the activities your student participates in during the week into a schedule. Then color-code the week into 4 categories: Red: Stressful or dreaded Blue : Boring or un-stimulating Green: Good or look forward to it Yellow: Meh or neutral
• Powerful Questions: Using powerful questions, we can identify the supportive conditions within the context of the classes/activities. Avoid asking “why” questions, which can make students feel defensive. Instead, ask “how” questions, which encourage curiosity and understanding.
• Document the Zone : Being “in the zone” refers to a state of heightened focus and engagement. Using motivation and engagement strategies that we know work for the interest-based nervous system ( “NICE” novel, interesting, challenging or emergency level urgent) will increase learning, improve classroom behavior, improve classroom management and help to prevent lifelong academic underachievement for children with ADHD. Use this tools to discover conditions that support.

School-based therapists, teachers, coaches, and parents can empower students to identify their own ADHD strategies by identifying strengths, documenting successes, and personalizing interventions. It empowers your student to stop trying harder and start trying differently.

Learn more about using this stregth based approach to ADHD support in this article  www.ot4adhd.com