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Common ADHD classroom accommodations may not help students succeed, study finds
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Extra time on assignments. Frequent breaks. A quiet place to work. For students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), these are some of the most common accommodations schools provide to make learning easier. But are they actually helping children succeed? A new st
Extra time on assignments. Frequent breaks. A quiet place to work.
For students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), these are some of the most common accommodations schools provide to make learning easier. But are they actually helping children succeed? A new study from Florida International University (FIU) suggests that some widely used approaches may be falling short.
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