Task+Focus

__**Strategies to help with Task Focus**__
 * Reduce distracting stimuli.
 * **Example:** study in a quiet place away from distractions
 * Follow a less desirable task with a highly desirable task. Make completion of the first task necessary to perform the second.
 * Provide the student with step-by-step directions
 * Communicate clearly with the student.
 * Provide the student with more than enough time to finish the task.
 * Have the student repeat directions back.
 * As the student becomes more successful, gradually increase the level of difficulty/complexity of written directions, explanations, instructions, information, etc.
 * **Example:** Start with one direction/step and once they have mastered that, move to having them follow two-step directions, etc.