Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hey everyone, it's Susan Coffin and you are listening to Attitude magazine's

ADHD experts audio. Our topic today is Project Based Learning and we're so pleased to welcome Susan Kloji who will talk about how to engage and how to energize students with ADHD and LD via project-based learning both at school and at home.

You know, for many kids with ADHD or with LD,

for them, the traditional school classroom

is not really conducive to learning,

listening to lectures, taking notes,

sitting possibly writing papers, filling in notebooks.

It's not the natural form of learning for kids who have language disabilities or intentional deficits.

They need to touch to experience, to interact with concepts, and with the real life issues they're studying. So for them, a more impactful method of education can be project-based learning, sometimes referred to as PBL.

So some elementary schools and some secondary schools

do integrate PBL methods, but many do not.

And the good news is that Susan Clogie

will be talking today about how parents and teachers can

boost any child's education using PBL and some of the strategies that she'll

talk about today will be ones that you can put to use in your classroom or you can ask your

child's teacher to put in use. She'll be addressing some of the following a little

more detail on why traditional classrooms are counterproductive for kids and ADHD and

with LDs. The benefits of PBL for students with ADHD or

LDs and how to set up those experiences for your kids at home. How projects can

be set up in the classroom and how all students can be supported in the PDL environment.

And then lastly she'll give some examples of successful project-based learning projects and why and how they change students understanding and learning.

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