Researchers at the ADHD Cognition Centre in Toronto have identified a number of spoken language difficulties directly related to ADD/ADHD. Weaknesses in Pragmatic(Social) Language Blurting out answers in class Interrupting others Talking excessively when it is inappropriate Often highly verbose: they speak for much longer at a stretch, and with many brief pauses. Within-turn pauses […]
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“Flexiture” is a unique combination of flexibility and structure that empowers parents and teachers to solve big and small problems faced by their children and students who struggle with poor executive functions because of ADD/ADHD, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, depression, and related challenges.
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If ADHD Isn’t a Learning Disorder, Why Does My Child Struggle So with Learning?
Although attention disorders are not learning disorders, ADD/ADHD can hamper a child or teen’s learning in very specific ways. Researchers at the ADHD Cognition Centre in Toronto have identified a number of learning challenges often associated with ADHD. The good news is they have also identified a number of learning strategies to help students with […]
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How Can I Help My ADHD Child or Student Learn?
Researchers at the Brain and Behavior Center in Toronto have found that children with ADHD struggle with learning in very specific ways and they require very specific types of remediation. Based on current research, the child or teen with ADHD benefits most from an education plan that addresses two specific needs: structuring and flexibility. (1) Structuring aimed at helping […]
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It’s Memorial Day Weekend Eve: Do You Know What Your Kids are Reading This Summer?
Its Memorial Day weekend eve, and millions of parents across the nation are asking this question, “What can I do to help my child this summer?” My first response is “Give the kid a break!”, but most of the parents who ask this question don’t want to hear that answer, and the research is pretty clear […]
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Four Structured Steps to Planning Better Paragraphs
Once your child can write variety of sentences, you can start to help her learn how to plan paragraphs by organizing ideas into a logical sequence. By providing a structured, step-by-step approach to this task, you help your child stay focused on the task at hand. First, generate ideas by making a list. Ideas for […]
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Six Structured Steps to Help Your Child Write Better Sentences
Use this structured step-by-step approach to help your child better express her creative thoughts and ideas in writing. Beginning at the sentence level, help her write to describe, inform, explain, request, demand, amuse, and convince. First, help your child understand basic sentence structure. A basic sentence answers two questions: Who? The boy The boy […]
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The Twelve Days of Christmas Break
Christmas break is a good time to help your late elementary school, middle school and high school students develop improved study skills. Although she will be less than thrilled to do this during the holidays, remind her that by using these skills, she can become a more organized student who has time to do the things […]
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An Easy Way to Improve Active Reading
It’s amazing how many kids are totally clueless about the different parts of the textbooks they use on a daily basis. Teaching your child this information is fairly easy and it helps her become an active reader. Introduce her to these important parts of her textbooks: Introduction – The introduction tells you how to use […]
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Best Tools to Improve Your Child’s Reading Fluency and Comprehension
As outlined in an earlier post, children with ADD/ADHD often struggle with reading fluency and reading comprehension. If your child with attention challenges struggles with hesitant, choppy, or uneven reading fluency, consider downloading the University of Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts (UTCRLA) Fluency Instruction Guides for either elementary or middle school students. To […]
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Two Ways to Address Your ADD/ADHD Child’s Learning Struggles
The child with attention difficulties benefits most from an education plan that addresses two specific needs: (1) Structuring aimed at helping her build her own internal structured approach to problem solving. (2) Flexibility of accommodations for the specific weaknesses associated with the individual child’s attention difficulties. Structuring Children with attention difficulties benefit greatly from explicit instruction […]
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12 Writing and ‘Rithmetic Struggles Common to ADD and ADHD
Children with attention challenges often struggle with multi-faceted and multiple step learning tasks because of trouble consistently managing themselves and their resources in order to achieve goals and solve problems. The written expression challenges common to children with ADD/ADHD include: Handwriting quality is inconsistent due to quick work. Spelling errors are mostly phonetic (spell words the […]
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