Making Sense of ADHD: The SIPSLOW Method
The Problem
Everyone with ADHD is given the same recommendations without consideration for individual learning styles. When you understand how your 5 Senses can make a difference in your learning styles, you can better understand how to manage your ADHD.
Using Your 5 Senses as Learning Styles
- Visual Input
- Auditory Input
- Kinesthetic Input
- Taste
- Smell
What is SIPSLOW?
Sensory Input, Processing, Short-term to Long-term, Output for Working Memory (SIPSLOW)
A brief semi-structured interview:
- Allows understanding of individuals’ sensory learning styles
- Allows for specific recommendations to improve working memory, which is often impaired in people with ADHD
The Proposed Solution
Responses to SIPSLOW and observations provide additional information about memory. This allows for individualized accommodations.
- The SIPSLOW Method is brief and easy to understand
- You do not need a professional to ask and interpret the responses
- Responses can be completed and evaluated in a 15-minute time period
Time Frame
Obtaining specific and relevant information helps to develop strategies that can be implemented immediately to improve working memory, which is often impaired in people with ADHD.