Organization

Getting organized at home:

1. Encourage your child to put his school materials in the same place every day.

2. Ask your child daily for notes from school, or look in the part of his binder or backpack reserved for parent information.

3. Establish a "homework-comes-first" policy.

4. Set limits on your child's television watching.

5. Tell your child that you expect him to write down all assignments.

6. Have your child do the harder assignments earlier in the evening when he is most alert.

7. Put up a checklist in a prominent place to remind your child of materials to be brought to school daily.

8. Mark on the family calendar tests, projects, and important school activities.

9. Have your child put all school materials inside his backpack before going to bed.

Excerpted from Special Kids Problem Solver: Ready-to-Use Interventions for Helping Students with Academic, Behavioral & Physical Problems, Kenneth Shore, Psy.D., Prentice Hall - 1998 October, 1998 ISBN: 0136325300