Thursday, March 18, 2010

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ORGANIZATION AND PLANNING IN CHILDREN WITH ADHD



The disruption has been identified as one of the key features of attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADHD). What do we mean by organization and planning?


Knowing where to start, what to do next, prioritize, set schedules, completing tasks multistep, long-term assignments, anticipating consequences, predict outcomes, use time efficiently and effectively. The feel they can overcome and control their disorganization can develop internal motivation to get organized. Train them to simplify tasks, using strategies, make decisions and increase their awareness of thought processes, helps to develop this sense of control.

  • useful approaches to improve organizational and planning skills:

-Teach how to simplify the task: Make a long-term assignment is a daunting task that lends itself easily to this process of simplification. This task can be divided into smaller segments. When a large task is divided into small steps, and / or parts, a task becomes more manageable.


Example of homework can (and need) to be divided further:

(a) copy on the agenda precisely.
(b) find and bring home the right materials to complete.
(c) planning the time to do it.
(d) it.
(e) put in place to take to school.
(f) deliver in school.


-Teach strategies: S on techniques that help make the job easier. They often include the use of "accessories":

1 .- lists "to do" are key accessories for the organization: provide an immediate sense of accomplishment because they show progress with each step completed.


2.-timers encourage children to evaluate the time it takes to complete various tasks.


3.-The agendas or schedules to plan activities to help children think about time in visual blocks. Write your obligations and commitments in this agenda or schedule, encourage children to make decisions and further increase the awareness of time and planning skills.


4.-Use timers 60 minutes, thus making a "race against time" to do everyday tasks, such as ready in the morning to go to school or cleaning a room- helps make the job fun and makes it smaller importanmás divided into daily tasks, help to finish the job with less stress than if left to do at the last minute. if you linked to a privilege or a reward for completing it on time.


5.-Use containers of all kinds hard-boxes, tins, folders, etc .- and identify them with words and perhaps with illustrations, it helps put things in their places and makes them easier to find . Using color coding highlights the groups or patterns and gives a sense of overview of the organization.


-Allow space for decision making: disorganized children are often indecisive. Have desks and disorderly books because they can not decide what to keep and what to leave (they need criteria). Not do their homework because they can not decide where to start and what to do next. The organization needs to take control over time, materials and procedures.


-Taking control requires decisions. This can be handled in several ways:

Provide age-appropriate alternative (with which they feel safe, and that the adult provides alternatives to choose from). Help raise awareness of the need to make decisions with your comments ("Good choice", "This decision means that you can ..."). Model aloud how he is making a decision on an issue, so they can see the internal language used (self). Teach them to develop lists of pros and cons to help them that their decisions are more obvious.


Speak to them in a positive way to reinforce the behaviors of thinking. Use specific words "thought" to highlight the moments of consciousness and self, "you remember (to put the map in your backpack)", "you noticed (not put the heading on your assignment"), "you realize (the you were distracted ") "I noticed (which your library books were due yesterday)", "recognition (which was nearly omit the word in the sentence)", "You thought about it," "Good plan," "You used a strategy" etc., are ways to encourage them to think for themselves.

provide structure and organization-in Activities:
Helping to an external structure. Dar
clear rules and precise instructions and simple.
reminder, anticipate what will be done, the limits.
Tell the student what is expected of him. Advertise with time
upcoming changes

Children with ADHD need of supervision, structure, and a support system that allows them to initiate and complete a project, task or activity.


MATERIAL TO WORK IN THE CLASSROOM:


-MTSP : Stop, Look, Listen, Think and Act. Program Development and Reflexivity Autocontrol.Xavier terminals, Mateu Servera, Maria Rosario Galván.Editorial: Group Albor.

-training program planning. Especially for children impulsive or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Isabel Orjales Villar.Editorial: ECE



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