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ASD Student not handing in homework

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My daughter does the homework, but doesn't hand it in. This has been an ongoing problem, but for the last couple of years not been such an issue in school as in year 10 she was off ill and had online schooling, returned in year 11 on a reduced timetable with adjustments on submitting homework. However, she started 6th Form this September and I'm getting emails from her teachers letting me know that homework is not being handed in. She tells me the work has been done (and I believe her), but is still finding it hard to hand it over. I think it is because she doesn't think it is 'good enough' or it is anxiety linked to being 'judged'. Does anyone have any strategies or links to any that we could look at to try and overcome the problem?

  • " Good enough is good enough."  A not quite perfect assignment handed in on time will get you a pass. An outstanding essay that is not handed in is a guaranteed fail. Basically she needs to understand that she needs to hand in the work to pass the course - there may be some discretion regarding lateness, poor presentation etc., but the student must submit something.

  • How do the teachers collect the homework? When I was in school, mine always noticed when homework wasn't handed in, and would ask the student then and there for a reason. And what is your daughter telling the teachers when they ask her why the homework hasn't been handed in?

  • If there's not enough time to complete the assignment, and she's being prompted to hand in the work, she may in fact, do the homework, but not feel it's completed the way she envisioned. She may have a capacity to do a thing and is realising she needs much more clarity or specifics about how to finalise a process. Not feeling resolved is entirely different than good enough. And that lack of resolution can really be bothersome for autistic thinking.

    Is she being reminded or is it possible she's forgetting. Most people have trouble being 'in the moment'. Autistics and ADHD'rs have trouble getting out of it, and thinking in linear time. It might be she needs a basic functional mushroom blend supplement to help promote focus. We have difficulty with task switching, so it's imperative to do one-thing-at-a-time. Can she hand in her homework upon arrival at school as prompted by someone? All that needs to happen is a shift in attention and the homework is now non existent.

    But last, as I got older, the assignments started to require skills that would become part of my executive dysfunction. Linear organisation and severe difficulty organising thought. I was undiagnosed but high school instructors in the late 80s simply allowed me to give an oral report or talk through my understanding with them. But also a lack of clarity and precision in communication, including my own internal access to words, was increasingly a problem. I don't know how I managed from 18 till about 35 when I started recognising I couldn't actually write a complete sentence. What you're reading today is courtesy of taking the time I actually needed to learn in my way how to craft a sentence. Thanks to a good amount of high quality journalism, which I read daily. It's as if I was a ghost of myself in my youth!