Helping Kids and Teens with ADHD in School

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• Very helpful, with strategies that would aid transition for students with ADHD or ADD

  
  Helping Kids and Teens with ADHD in School: A workbook for classroom support and managing transitions
  
  
  I have been really impressed by the strategies and advice that this text offers. By catering for parents, staff and students it does manage to support a wide range of audiences. Each chapter is separated into information, activities, advice and further learning opportunities. The activities for children could easily be carried out by a teaching assistant in small groups.
  
  In an ideal world, the transition between primary and secondary (or high school, as it is referred to throughout) would be supported by the different chapters. I know that I hope to encourage our feeder primary schools to use the given strategies to enable continuity.
  
  The appeal behind this book, rather than others is the focus upon transition to support students with both ADHD and also ADD. The nine different chapters and areas that are addressed have the headings:
  1. Welcome: An introduction to adults
  2. Getting started
  3. Feeling Great! Self esteem
  4. Don’t miss a thing! Attention and concentration
  5. Keeping cool and calm
  6. Getting sorted: organisation
  7. Friends and mates
  8. Surviving homework
  9. The future and beyond
  
  The book is laid out very well with the addition of cartoon illustrations of three characters, which have ADHD and ADD. Throughout the book they are used as child friendly case studies, which would be ideal to kick start conversations.
  
  The worksheets use a variety of presentational features which make them appear accessible, for example text box shapes to write in. Constructed shapes allow support for students when written answers require more than one response e.g. with the use of bullet points, boxes or tables.
  
  The language is never patronising and as a SENCo I picked up numerous tips which I knew but had forgotten or completely new ideas to begin with. In intend to share my knowledge accrued from this book and have already shared the title with our primary feeder schools. I would not hesitate in recommending it to those who wish to support ADHD students, but especially for those who are transferring to secondary school or students between 10-14 years old who might need specifically tailored activities and targets to help them deal with their condition.
  
  To give an ‘Even better if…’ comment, I would have appreciated the worksheets for students on a CD Rom to make the printing more accessible. Alternatively, it would be fantastic if students who are motivated by the use of ICT could type their answers into the worksheets. I would pay more for the workbook if the worksheets were in Word and therefore editable!
  

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  7 May, 2009

  samantha23