15/07/2026
Have you heard of brain dumps? This is a method that can really help students with dyslexia and/or ADHD plan their writing.
In this photo you’ll see that the student has written down all their ideas in a random fashion. Anything they could think of about the question. It helps to avoid them forgetting ideas as they write from cognitive overload (brain working on too many tasks at once).
Next they colour coded ideas into groups which will plan out which paragraphs the idea is used. This makes their writing more coherent and polished. It will flow from one point to another rather than random tangents.
It doesn’t have to be neat or spelled correctly- just get all those wonderful ideas down as fast as you can!
