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Is Johnny's Primary Handicap a Learning Disability or ADHD? |
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Parents are usually worried by the report of learning problems and under performance in school by their child. Once learning accommodations and positive incentives have been informally introduced in the classroom, the next level of possible interventions to help a student’s academic performance in the classroom can become more complicated. The difficulty Johnny experiences in the classroom cannot be accurately understood without some amount of individualized evaluation primarily in the areas of intellectual ability, learning achievement, or his ability to regulate attention. Schools are more likely to refer a student for an ADHD evaluation prior to the initiation of a comprehensive... |
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So, My Child Has Been Recommended for Testing - What Do I Do Now? |
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You’ve just received a call from your child's teacher. As your blood pounds in your ears, you hear her explain how she has noticed your child having difficulty with some academic subject in school. Your child is not understanding math or reading the way the other children do. So she would like your permission to proceed with testing to find out what exactly is causing the problem. So what do you do next? The first thing is, Don't panic. This referral for testing simply means that she's asking for your permission to find out whether a learning disability is evident, or, if not, how she can help your child. She wants to know 1) how your child learns best, 2) where the child's learning... |
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The Use of Color to Treat Learning Problems |
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I am the queen of color. Or, so I tell my students as I work with them, invariably using color as a training tool. Of course, they also think I'm a nut case, and that may well be true, but the bottom line is this: I get results with color. A normal child spends most of his day in school, dealing with black and white. Most of this day is spent with a black lead pencil, books printed in black and white, and worksheets and workbooks also printed in black and white. It seems their world is black and white, perhaps with a few colored moments. For a left-brained child, this is not an issue at all. His brain does not require color to function well. However, a right-brained child, who sees the... |
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Children with Sensory Needs - The Misunderstood Five Percent of the General Population
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Many children, perhaps your own, exhibit difficulty processing sensory information including: touch, taste, smell, vision, and hearing. As many as 5% of the school age population exhibit characteristics of sensory processing disorder (SPD), sometimes known as sensory integration disorder. Further, many children with autism, ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), learning disabilities have SPD coexisting or underlying these conditions. Research has shown that as many as 40% of children with ADHD display symptoms of SPD. If you are a parent of a child with special needs, perhaps you are struggling with the added stresses this can have on the family. - Your family relationships may be affected.
- Siblings may be envious of the extra attention provided to the child with special needs.
- Mothers may feel that fathers are not involved.
- Fathers may feel unfairly blamed, when in their opinion, they are struggling to support the family.
- Extended relatives, while intending to provide support, may instead offer conflicting advice, or just not understand the needs of the child and the family.
- An already tight family budget may be stretched even greater to cover the added expenses associated with providing the best possible care for the child with special needs, and the family as a whole.
Only by sharing information and working together can we have adequate recognition and support for those impacted by SPD. Search the internet. Resources exist on the internet through non-proft foundations, and parent connections groups. It is my hope that all children grow up with the courage and wisdom to share their natural talents for the betterment of the world, …express understanding and respect for humanity …appreciate and extend the work done by previous generations of people.
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Of course, you want your child to experience that internal sense of satisfaction of a job well done. That is a feeling money cannot buy. But for the tougher skills and for our more challenging loved ones, concrete rewards are appropriate and valuable as motivational tools. I have heard parents and teachers lament, “This behavior mod stuff does not work!” Well, chances are, they just need to have a closer look at the reward component of their behavior change program. Here are six key questions to help you design and refine your child’s reward system:
1. Did you design a tracking system that is easy to implement, for both you and your child? Your child needs to have a way to visually monitor his progress and predict when a reward will happen. Your tracking system can be in the traditional form of a chart or check list. For some kids, paper systems are not particularly exciting or can even be confusing. Your child might better enjoy a tactile approach, where he gets to hold and handle objects that he accumulates towards a reward. He can drop a penny into a jar for each positive action. Or string together buttons, paper clips or beads and watch the strand grow. You can hand your child one card from a deck, each time you see the wanted behavior. 2. Is your reward plan in balance with the two other key ingredients of a behavior change program? You need to set out clear expectations [goals] and the consequences [natural outcomes] that influence when and if the rewards are coming. When you offer rewards without those other two components, you and your child are trying to finish a puzzle with two thirds of the pieces missing. 3. Did you involve your child in choosing the rewards to be earned? Participating in all the good things that will... |
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