Good point Ruth, but the whole time I'm doing things in the back of my mind I keep reminding myself that ADHD is only guess work at the moment and may be totally irrelevant. I've stopped looking at websites as they are so confusing and depressing.
Here is the info about the book I am waiting for.
How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children: Practical Techniques, Strategies and Interventions for Helping Children with Attention Problems and Hyperactive
Product Description
A comprehensive resource that addresses the "whole child, " as well as the team approach to meeting the needs of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Includes management techniques that promote on–task behavior and language arts, whole language, and multi–sensory instruction strategies that maintain student attention and keep students involved.
From the Back Cover
For educators, specialists, and parents, here is a remarkable new resource packed with classroom–tested techniques and practical know–how for helping children with attention deficit disorders––with or without hyperactivity.
Focusing on the "whole child" and a team approach that lets you guide these children toward academic as well as personal success, the book shows you...
What is ADD/ADHD and how to identify it
Successful home–school itnervention plans based on actual case studies
How to get and keep student attention & increase on–task behavior
Specific management techniques that prevent behavioral problems
What works best to improve students′ organization and study skills
Proven multi–sensory activities and methods for language arts, math, and writing instruction
How to reach students through learning styles awareness, environmental modifications, and cooperative learning situations
Various medications, their effects, and school management of them
How to modify assignments and tests, and accommodate the child with writing difficulties
Numerous strategies on how to manage kindergarten children
How to use relaxation, guided imagery, visualization techniques, and music to get the most from your students
How to avoid problems during transitional and noninstructional times
A Parent′s Story that deals with the many issues, feelings, and struggles that families face when a child has this disorder
Interviews with teens and adults who share what made a significant difference in their lives
Plus you get sample contracts, charts, a student self–evaluation checklist, sample letters and documentation on communicating with physicians and agencies, a learning styles interview to use with children, obseration sheets, and an outline for a social skills planning unit to help you successfully manage the impulsive, overly stimulated, "quick–to–anger" child as well as the child who just can′t focus.
In short, this complete resource is like having an expert at your side to answer virtually any question on how to reach and teach children who need your help and understanding!
What do you reckon?
