{"id":660,"date":"2020-10-07T15:11:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thencptw.org\/online2020\/?page_id=660"},"modified":"2021-05-07T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:18:18","slug":"the-writing-centers-lack-of-focus-tutoring-students-with-adhd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thencptw.org\/online2020\/?page_id=660","title":{"rendered":"&#10;The Writing Center&#8217;s Lack of Focus: Tutoring Students with ADHD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table alignfull is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thencptw.org\/online2020\/index.php\/conference-program\/the-writing-centers-lack-of-focus-tutoring-students-with-adhd\/\">The Writing Center\u2019s Lack of Focus: Tutoring Students with ADHD<\/a><\/strong><\/td><td>Elizabeth Hughes, The Catholic University of America (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:hughesea@cua.edu\" target=\"_blank\">hughesea@cua.edu<\/a>)<br><\/td><td>Though the writing center is uniquely situated to help students with disabilities because it is able to provide individualized attention, little research has been done on how the writing center can best serve students with specific disabilities like ADHD. Because of this lack of research, it remains unclear as to whether traditional writing center pedagogy is effective for students with ADHD. My research, conducted at Catholic University\u2019s Writing Center, in conjunction with the Office of Disability Support Services, makes recommendations to improve tutoring effectiveness not only for students with ADHD but for all students.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo alignfull wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Writing&#039;s Center Lack of Focus: Tutoring Students with ADHD\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/471461785?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Writing Center\u2019s Lack of Focus: Tutoring Students with ADHD Elizabeth Hughes, The Catholic University of America (hughesea@cua.edu) Though the writing center is uniquely situated to help students with disabilities because it is able to provide individualized attention, little research has been done on how the writing center can best serve students with specific disabilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-660","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thencptw.org\/online2020\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thencptw.org\/online2020\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thencptw.org\/online2020\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thencptw.org\/online2020\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thencptw.org\/online2020\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thencptw.org\/online2020\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/www.thencptw.org\/online2020\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/660\/revisions\/932"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thencptw.org\/online2020\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thencptw.org\/online2020\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}