Environmental Adjustments

The clinician should educate the family regarding appropriate environmental adjustments. These may include:

• putting breakables away
• providing an appropriate safe place for the child to be active
• leaving the child at home with a sitter instead of attending events that require long periods of contained behavior
• locking up unsafe items (e.g. guns and matches)
• removing temptations

  A handout available in this module, The Child with AD/HD - Modifying the Classroom, describes appropriate environmental adjustments in the child's classroom.

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