November Newsletter
Lets conquer OHI-ADHD together!!
What is OHI-ADHA
For Your Information: (Thoughts To Ponder)
- Often fails to give close attention to details
- Often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play
- Often has difficulty following instructions
- Often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities
- Often loses things necessary for tasks
- Often easily distracted
- Often avoids, dislike, or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require mental effort
Barriers:
"As more and more is learned about this disorder, it is understood that ADHD permeates every aspect of a child's life. Characteristics such as forgetfulness and disorganization cause problems at home as well as in school. Secondary symptoms such as low self-estemm, aggressiveness and emotional immaturity play a major role in how a child and family adapt to ADHD being part of daily life. Disorganization, forgetfulness and losing items are also major problems for students with ADHD. Keeping track of projects, remembering homework assignments and tests are all frequent complaints of students with ADHD. They find it difficult to keep track of all the important information needed to manage their studies. Inattention, a major system of ADHD, can cause students to miss details when a teacher is speaking, when homework assignments are giving or when other students are talking. A student with ADHD tends to pay attention to everything that is going on around them rather than being able to focus on one task. Hyperactivity creates problems with sitting still through class. Students are expected to remain seated for extended periods of time and as they get older, sitting for longer periods is necessary. Hyperactivity, however, doesn't go away and this continues to cause problems throughout the school years."
- Creativity: students with ADHD allows them to think outside the box which helps them think outside the box.
- Enthusiastic: energy the students are more likely to get behind a cause that they really enjoy.
- Quick thinking: When interested in a topic students can take in information quickly as well as multitask
Resources: To help the students with adhd creating rules and structure for the students, having aides to help supervise the sunders may be helpful as well. Positive peer models can help a lot, contacting parents can be really helpful to students.
Instructional Resources: "With a lot of patience, creativity, and consistency. As a teacher, your role is to evaluate each child’s individual needs and strengths. Then you can develop strategies that will help students with ADD/ADHD focus, stay on task, and learn to their full capabilities. Teaching techniques that help students with ADD/ADHD focus and maintain their concentration on your lesson and their work can be beneficial to the entire class. Keep instructions simple and structured.
Vary the pace and include different kinds of activities. Many students with ADD do wellwith competitive games or other activities that are rapid and intense.
Use props, charts, and other visual aids.
Have an unobtrusive cue set up with the student who has ADD/ADHD, such as a touch
on the shoulder or placing a sticky note on the student’s desk, to remind the student to stay on task.
Allow a student with ADD/ADHD frequent breaks.
Let the student with ADHD squeeze a rubber ball or tap something that doesn’t make
noise as a physical outlet.
Try not to ask a student with ADD/ADHD perform a task or answer a question publicly
that might be too difficult"
Frequently Asked Questions:
-Contact the school
-Talk to the school counselor
-Explore these following resources