I'm starting my supervisor's course at work next month and am sh*tting myself as I havn't studied in over ten years.
My facillitator is aware that I have ADHD and has asked if I have any info or tips for her that would help her understand the areas that may be difficult for me and how she can structure the lessons so I don't get confused,overwhelmed or whatever.
I can't find anything for teaching adults. Loads on kids but nothing for adult students.
Anyone got anything that I could give her??
PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A great place of course to start are the books like driven to distraction and the other ones by Dr. Hallowell. Try www.oneaddplace.com as they have a lot of good info for adults and kids. Also the resources through www.chadd.org are very useful.
Perhaps also check with the people in the forum who are coaching adult ADHDers.
Your right. Not easy to find anything but in case you didn't run across this link:
http://add.about.com/cs/adulteducation/a/adulteducation.htm
Here is a link from here on ADHDNews
http://www.adhdnews.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2879
Good luck girl!
Thanks Glen and Auntie. I got a heap of info for my lecturers.
I'm glad they are interested in studying up a bit on ADHD just for my benefit
As someone who spent 10 years in college and didn't know she had ADD, I have been looking back at some of the things I did that helped. I'm hearing impaired also.
One thing that may be helpful - are you a visual or auditory learner? If you're visual then she needs to use lots of analogies and draw pictures. If you are auditory, tape the lectures instead of trying to take notes.
Next I was a real pest but sometimes a good pest. I would interupt the class and ask lots of questions, sometimes. If she can allow that it helps you stay involved and relaxes you because you can slow things down when you need to. Sometimes you can say - "Wait a minute, Are you saying?... or Does that mean?...." And repeat what you think you have just heard but aren't sure of or maybe just need a bit of time to digest. Then the teacher can reiterate what it meant or what she said.
I've had people come up to me after class and thank me for asking the questions I do or slowing it down where I did. You have to be bold. Course I've had some dirty looks from people who just want to get out of there.
One thing that works for me (I'm a visual learner) to help me remember things is to take the time to create an outline of each chapter in my own words. So I'll go through each chapter of the book and type in the computer what it means in my own way of thinking. If there are formulas and such I put them in there too. The act of thinking about them and then typing them up helps them get set in my mind. Then those become my study notes for exams.
Good luck
Susan Renard
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