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Help me to focus.

Please teach me through my sense of “touch”.
I need “hands on” and “body movement”.
I need to know what comes next.

Please give me a structured environment where there is a dependable routine.
Give me advanced warning if there will be changes.
Wait for me, I’m still thinking.
Please allow me to go at my own pace.
If I rush, I get confused and upset.
I’m stuck! I can’t do it!
Please offer me options for problem solving.
I need to know the detours when the road is blocked.
Is it right? I need to know NOW!

Please give me rich and immediate feedback on how I’m doing.

I didn’t forget, I didn’t “hear” it in the first place!

Please give me directions one step at a time and ask me to say back what I think you said.
I didn’t know I wasn’t in my seat!

Please remind me to STOP, THINK and ACT.
Am I almost done now?

Please give me short periods with short-term goals.
What?

Please don’t say, “I’ve already told you that”.
Tell me again in different words.
Give me a signal.  Draw me a symbol.
I know, it’s ALL-wrong, isn’t it?

Please give me praise for partial success.
Reward me for self-improvement, not just for perfection.
But why do I always get yelled at?

Please catch me doing something right and praise me for my specific positive behaviour.
Remind me (and yourself) about my good points, when I’m having a bad day.

I may be hard to live with, and have ADHD, but I still have
Feelings and would have never chosen to behave like I do sometimes.

[source:  Newsletter of The Delaware Association For The Education of Young Children, Winter 1993/94) Copyright 1991 Ruth Harris, Northwest Reading Clinic]

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