Tips for the Homework & Organization Impaired, Part 3

  In the past couple   posts, i've been talking about the recent  homework post at The Autism Support Network.

  The author, Michelle Garcia Winner, is a highly qualified professional who is passionate about helping challenged people develop social skills..
  Something i've  noticed about such people, though, is that they tend to forget that not everyone knows the terms.
  Now i'm a fan of big words.  i tend to lose people too.  The thing about big words is they actually say what needs to be said more compactly than small words.
   i needed an entire post to explain about executive function while the original article made it part of one paragraph of three syllable words.
  But a lot of people find the large words scary.  Some need a second run at them, and others just, for whatever reason, will not get them.
  Many of those people are the ones we need to talk to, the ones who most need the three-syllable word information.
  i wonder how many people like my friend came to this article and found themselves roadblocked by the complicated words.  i wonder how many of those people came back to find the really good information in the article.

  i think most of the big-word roadblocks are in that critical first paragraph.  The actual Ten Tips in the second half of the article are pretty straightforward and don't have very many big words, at least not any that won't appear in an average office environment.
  Again, i highly recommend taking a look at the article.  Let me know what you think.
  Tomorrow i will discuss the motivation factor, item #2 in the article, possibly one of the most misunderstood aspects of the problem.