Task Initiation & Focus Activities for Students with ADHD
Getting started and staying on task are daily struggles for many students with ADHD. This 44-page guide explains the executive function behind the behavior and gives you practical strategies, activities and tools that work in a real classroom.
What's Inside
- Understanding ADHD and executive function
- Assessing task initiation and focus challenges
- Task initiation strategies that actually work
- Sustaining focus: keeping the brain on task
- Organisation and planning support
- Movement, sensory and body-based focus strategies
- Motivation, rewards and building real engagement
- Family and home support
- Printable tools: task initiation observation form, My Focus Toolkit student card, daily focus tracker, family ADHD strategy sheet and a token economy board.
How It Helps You
- Helps you assess where task initiation breaks down for each student
- Offers movement, sensory and motivation strategies to sustain focus
- Gives students their own focus toolkit card and daily tracker
Ways to Use It
Use it in general or special education classrooms, during small group or one-to-one support, and share the family strategy sheet with parents.
Who It's For
Special education and general education teachers, ADHD support staff, counselors and parents.
Format
PDF, 44 pages. Instant download, print or read on any device.
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