Wondering how to deal with screen distractions, executive function, frustration & anger, and more? These blogs explore the unique challenges of ADHD shutdown learners.
Here’s a few of our top ADHD-tagged blog posts:
- Transition to College With LD & ADHD – What to know.
- Part III: Anger: You Can’t Make Me” Depleting Emotional Fuel
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“Children surrounded by fast-paced visual stimuli (TV, videos, computer games) at the expense of face-to-face adult modeling, interactive language, reflective problem- solving, creative play, and sustained attention may be expected to arrive at school unprepared for academic learning—and to fall […]
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I had the pleasure the other night presenting to parents at the Orchard Friends School. The topic was “Executive Functioning & Shut-Down Learners.” As I always try to do, my mission is to present concepts that I think become unnecessarily […]
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Maybe I am pulling for it by writing these blogs about anger (see last two blog posts: https://shutdownlearner.com/blog), but lately I’ve had a run of angry kids. While the content varies in terms of the specifics of each case, there […]
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In a recent blog post I discussed how anger can be depleting a child from the necessary emotional fuel to manage school https://shutdownlearner.com/blog/2015/03/anger-you-cant-make-me-depleting-emotional-fuel. Many of the typical “ADHD” style behaviors such as avoiding responsibilities, procrastinating, not sustaining mental effort, may […]
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What do these behaviors sound like to you? · Not handing in homework consistently · Responsibility avoidance · Procrastination · Not able to sustain mental effort · Forgetful I bet you are thinking something like ADHD, of the inattentive variety, […]