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101 School Success Tools for Students With ADHD
101 School Success Tools for Students With ADHD provides the materials and guidance necessary to assist teachers and parents as they empower students with ADHD to become successful learners. Based on field-tested strategies for use with learners with ADHD, the book provides a brief overview of the specific learning needs of these students, as well as a wide variety of tools that teachers can immediately pull out and use in the classroom and parents can use in the home setting.
Each tool is explained in a brief how-to section that includes specific information on adapting the tool based on the individual student's needs. The book covers topics that include observing and collecting data on students, creating schedules, assessing a child's strengths, refocusing a child's attention, managing difficult behaviors, implementing calming techniques, providing motivation, and improving study and homework skills. A collection of worksheets, forms, checklists, charts, website listings, and other tools are included as reproducible pages.
Each tool is explained in a brief how-to section that includes specific information on adapting the tool based on the individual student's needs. The book covers topics that include observing and collecting data on students, creating schedules, assessing a child's strengths, refocusing a child's attention, managing difficult behaviors, implementing calming techniques, providing motivation, and improving study and homework skills. A collection of worksheets, forms, checklists, charts, website listings, and other tools are included as reproducible pages.
240 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2010
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March 6, 2012
Note: This book is probably an excellent resource for someone working with a teen with ADHD that has never encountered an ADHD student before. I'm just not that person.
I was hoping to find strategies to help my 10 year old son with school issues. Organizational ideas, behavioral responses, information for accommodation expectations...all are useful to parents working with an ADHD diagnosis but I think that many of us are starting the work when our children are diagnosed, which is often earlier than the teen years. The writing prompts and the timelines for homework are excellent for upper level work but simply not what most elementary school kids are facing. We're still in the land of timed math fact tests and spelling lists and the steps involved in preparing for a term paper aren't relevant.
I also finished the book a little depressed. Seeing all of these ideas and examples of how teachers can change the classroom and improve the school experience for ADHD kids made me realize how little our school is vested in helping these children.
I was hoping to find strategies to help my 10 year old son with school issues. Organizational ideas, behavioral responses, information for accommodation expectations...all are useful to parents working with an ADHD diagnosis but I think that many of us are starting the work when our children are diagnosed, which is often earlier than the teen years. The writing prompts and the timelines for homework are excellent for upper level work but simply not what most elementary school kids are facing. We're still in the land of timed math fact tests and spelling lists and the steps involved in preparing for a term paper aren't relevant.
I also finished the book a little depressed. Seeing all of these ideas and examples of how teachers can change the classroom and improve the school experience for ADHD kids made me realize how little our school is vested in helping these children.
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