Why I never tell a student to “act your age.”
Date: July 11th, 2013
By: Polly Bath
Watch this video [1:10] to see why we can’t always expect students to “act their age.”
Research says if you’re sixteen years old and you have a true diagnosis of ADHD, then you’re really, developmentally, eleven. Think about that.
If a child is five and they have diagnoses of some significant learning disabilities, they are really two.
ALWAYS think about that when you’re expecting certain skills or behaviors from a child.
Click on my video above for more.