online school (ADHD support)

[yaga123]

Dear Ladies,
I’d appreciate your positive and negative advice on online schools, particularly those with strong ADHD support. It would be ideal if they also have a positive Ofsted report.
My son has ADHD and finds mainstream schooling challenging. Since we live outside the UK, switching to another physical school isn’t practical.
Do you know of any good online schools with excellent ADHD support?

I would think that any online school would be extremely challenging for most kids with adhd. I think they would struggle to engage with the content if not in the room with the educator. Often adhd kids do better with interactive and hands on forms of learning.

I agree with @Geneticsbunny . It doesn't seem like an obvious choice for a child with ADHD. Mine would never have had the attention span. We preferred to learn in short bursts, preferably while doing things. Going places and seeing new things also works really well for her.

I don't work in school, I work in college so older learners, but online learning is huge challenge for many many learners, even if they have no additional needs. We would only recommend it for a learner with SEN if their SEN was really such that they needed it, like immuno-compromised or something, as it is so much harder. I would have thought for someone for ADHD the lack of structure and need to organise your own learning would be extremely challenging. I would honestly either home school and take a flexible approach with a lot of active learning, or find a physical school locally that has a good knowlegde of SEN.

I realise this might not work for you but the compromises we are making are to make sure that my adhd son knows that he is absolutely amazing and very gifted in some areas but unfortunately the trade off is that some things are hard for him. Then we are working on school just being somewhere that he does the qualifications he needs to go and do what he wants to do as an adult. So he needs to pass maths and English gcse and get 5 or 6 gcses so he can do a levels or btec or an apprenticeship.

Some schools in the UK will do flexischooling and you can then access some home Ed groups like woodworking or forest schools or horse riding. Would that be an option where you are?

Online schooling works for some. For others, it doesn’t. Lots use different providers for different subjects to tailor to DC’s needs. For example, some find live lessons work best for some subjects but they need recorded lessons for other subjects.