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Difficulty Organizing

Materials

Many students have poor motor planning and sequencing skills. Often, their visual system is under-responsive, and it does not organize sensory input well. These students have extreme difficulty making a plan to organize materials, and they also often have decreased fine motor skills. Messy backpacks overflow with extra papers, desk drawers are chaotic, utensils are unusable or missing, and papers are not put in binders.

Solutions!

• Replace the three-ring binder with a flexed file folder (the accordion type). This reduces the organizational steps that are needed with a three-ring binder to a much simpler filing method for papers. It also allows the student to see the entire folder at a glance.

• Prompt him to organize papers or throw away the old ones at the end of the day when he is packing his backpack.

• Remind him to take inventory and clean out his pencil box on a scheduled basis.

• Have a peer help him clean and organize his desk each week. Reduce the level of assistance to modeling as independence increases.

• Provide containers to attach to the sides of his desk. This will let the student see the contents easily versus having to bend and peer into a dark desk.