Hello Burnette:

As it happens, ADDitude has created a great online guide to Success at College for students with ADHD.

There are lots of study tips there, plus information about accommodations, organization help, and lots more. I hope it helps!

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An highly useful resource may be at the college--even a couple of them. I was recently in a college course named General Study Skills. It was a co-course with English 98. I took the Gen-S 100 class as an accident of taking the English 98 class at the behest of and advising of the Vocational Rehab. counselor I have through the Veterans Administration, as a part of my extended evaluation process. The reasons for the English class partly arose out of the voc. rehab. testing process identifying that my comprehension sucked if I read too fast, combined with my ADHD mind skills, and a history of depression. I have been in college twice before, for up to 3 years apiece. And my experiences through all of this led to recognizing the many tools that the Gen-S class offered through a workbook-based instruction-by-experimentation process--a self-discovery and confidence builder. The workbook I HIGHLY recommend, as a general knowledge helper, and a tool for trying many skills. And then, through this process finding skills that work best with his mind-brain style. This textbook is "Becoming a Master Student, Concise, Eleventh Edition" written by Dave Ellis [ISBNs: 978-0-618-59538-9 or 0-618-59538-4] (There is a newer edition that will be used in the Fall 2008-9 quarter, at Olympic College, Washington: see OLYMPIC.EDU and seerch it as the Gen-S 100 General Study Skills text, at the college store online). The book is a compilation of numerous skills developed by students through time, and gathered together in a compendium of ideas and techniques, some of which I had already learned in other circumstances, and ways; and still others, which are all very, very helpful to me, just in my every day life alone, not too mention academically. But, it is also still more than this...it also is a guide, or a counsel in print, of practical ways to discover one's own mind-brain style, while receiving encouragement that others have gone where your son IS, in his personhood, not to mention many other students who are FADs (Focused Attention mind-brain types). The book's material will come home to him, I assure you, in valuable ways that he'll discover along his academic, as well as personal, life.

With the workbook, you could possibly workout with your son as a home school augmentation, if he's open to that idea, as a proctoring, facilitative approach with your son, and you may find many skills for yourself, and other family members, too.

Another important resource can be utilized, if you guys haven't consulted with them, yet. Even if you have the workbook can still stand seperately. Your son and/or you can check with the college Disabled Students office for additional aides that might work for him. The workbook, above, will help him to determine if there are things that Disabled Students may offer, but that may not be specifically addressed by DS as helps for ADD/ADHD student types. A DS office may not have that much variety in their offerings. The workbook I've mentioned will help your son when situations where, when there doesn't seem to be anybody that has something that works for him, he can be HIS own help--it will provide him independence skills that help make him more confident that he CAN do what other people do, too. God bless you all, in the Name of Jesus.

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