Learning
Style Inventory on ADHD
With or without
attention difficulties, we all learn differently. This is
a fact we all know instinctively. For example, you may prefer
to read books to learn, but you have a friend who learns best
by working with his or her hands. These different types of
learning abilities are known as learning styles. When a teacher
or school is interested in assessing your learning style,
you may be given a learning style inventory. There are learning
style inventories available for various situations and needs,
including a learning style inventory for ADHD students.
Knowing one’s
learning style is the secret to making education faster, easier,
and more enjoyable for everyone including teachers, parents,
and students. By completing a learning style inventory for
ADHD, the student can, in essence, tell his teachers how they
can help him or her succeed in school. Otherwise, if all teachers
adhered to one teaching style, it would create serious problems
for people with ADHD, learning disabilities, and students
who simply think in a different way. A mismatch between learning
styles and teaching styles can lead to stress, frustration,
anger, and school dropout.
A learning
style inventory for ADHD would ask a series of questions to
the student. These questions may be in a simple “yes
or no” format, or they may require more nuanced answers
such as a scale from 1 to 10. Other questions on a learning
style inventory for ADHD may request whole sentences or paragraphs
for answers, which in some cases are best delivered orally.
Here are some questions you might see on a learning style
inventory for ADHD:
- Do you like sports more
than reading books?
- Do you prefer hearing
a book on tape instead of reading it?
- Do you like to work
with your hands to build and make things?
- Are your desk and bedroom
disorganized?
- Are you constantly fidgeting?
- Do you require explanations
for maps, diagrams, or graphs?
- Are you good at putting
jigsaw puzzles together?
The questions
on a learning style inventory for ADHD may seem odd or unrelated
at first, but when the questionnaire is studied, it should
give teachers and schools a good idea of the best ways a student
can absorb information. Since success in today’s schools
and workplaces is totally dependent on learning and applying
new information, a learning style inventory for ADHD may be
a critical positive turning point in an ADHD student’s
life.
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