Students with Learning Disabilities Struggle with Focus, Organization, and Retention in Online Classes

Summary

Students with LD such as autism and ADHD face overwhelming challenges in online/hybrid learning, including inability to focus, poor organization, and failure to retain course material. Standard tutoring and instruction methods repeatedly fail to help them improve, as seen in a case where a student receiving dedicated tutoring still fell asleep during practice exams and answered questions incorrectly despite knowing the material. The lack of effective, tailored tools or methodologies for this population leaves students, parents, and educators deeply frustrated and hopeless.