School leaders have long been aware of the difficulties experienced by learners with ADHD and the recent longitudinal study by Washbrook, Propper & Sayal (2015) clearly revealed the current high level of educational underachievement in this group of young people at age 16.
However, there has never been a more interesting and exciting time for those of us committed to improving the life chances of learners with ADHD.
Several innovations and new approaches were launched at the fourth annual ADHD Foundation conference in Liverpool last term.
Entitled New Directions in ADHD, this multi-disciplinary two-day event was attended by nearly 800 delegates from across the UK and abroad. Planned as a space to explore and share ideas in both educational and clinical practice, the second conference day was memorably opened by Stephen Drew of Channel 4’s Educating Essex and Mr Drew’s School for Boys, who encouraged the conference to reflect upon what can be achieved when “the adults just care enough”, and made a call to arms for all schools to embrace the needs of learners with complex needs and mental health problems and provide educational experiences that would benefit them as well as neurotypical learners.
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