Organization
Organizing Materials
- Homework folder to provide a place for unfinished work
- Homework View Binders with divider tabs for each of their classes (High School)
- Colored flags to mark important information on paper, such as reading stop points, homework pages, chapter references, etc
- Visual "High Five" listing essential 5 items to bring to school
- "Feature Blocking Visuals" to teach future thinking skills
- Use luggage tags on backpack with needed items in picture format
Organizing Time
Visual schedules and mini-schedules to provide the sequence of steps or requirements for individual work activities
Timers to set for defined work periods to assist with focus and sustaining efforts on a task
Music or other masking noise to block out distractions
Visual High-Five listing essential five items to bring to school
Feature Blocking Visuals (Sara Ward) to teach future thinking skills
Luggage Tag on backpack with needed items pictured on it
Apps supporting organization
- Google Calendar
- My Homework
- Schoolbook
- My Study Life
- Schoolbook
- Astrid, YadaHome
- Picture Planner
- First/Then
- iPrompts
- Pictello
- Soundnote
- Notability
- Audionote
- Evernote
- Jotnot
- Lannotate
- Genius Scan
- DocScan
- EZ Garage
- Dropbox
- TimeTimer
- Kids Activity Clock
- Camera on device to take photo of assignments posted on board in class
Organization is a general term and many other areas of executive function overlap with it.