The ADHD Child

This is a Teachertube video of the ADHD child. It is a little lengthy, but it has some really good information on ADHD behavior and tips for teaching the ADHD child.

INTERVENTIONS USED

Student x is a 3rd grade boy. He is reading on a beginning first grade level. He is on the list to be tested for dislexia and other learning disabilities. He is already coded ADHD and is on a low dosage of medication. He takes it in the morning and again at lunch. This medication seems to have no effect on him. He is very easily distracted and he has very poor organizational skills. Many of his papers are lost or destroyed. I have had several conferences with his mother and father. They were advised to reatain him last year in second grade, however, the chose to send him on to "see how he would do". He is currently failing.

He is not a real behavior problem other than the fact he can not follow directions and he draws all the time instead of doing the work he should be doing. He is in a small group with others who are on or below his reading level. He works with the inclusion teacher each day when she comes in my room.

I have used the 3rd grade Reading Streets progam with him and leveled readers all year. He has gone from a Grade Equivelent reading level of, 0.6 on 9/8/09 to a 1.3 on 1/20/2010, from the AR Star Test report. He is making progress.

I have also tested his fluency leve. He is reading on a level F reading level in the Reading a-z program, which is equivelent to Fountas & Pinnell's level F, Reading Recovery level 9-10, and DRA level 10. These are all 1st grade reading levels.

I have begun another reading intervention progam titled "Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Hundred Easy Lessons". I have used this program before and it has helped several slow readers in my classes in the past. I am hopeful that it will help him as well. He is very excited about the program and even told me today he would give me money to buy him a book so I did not have to copy pages for him. He is showing enthusiasm for this program.