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Teaching Strategies & Learning Styles for Kids with ADHD

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The distractibility, impulsivity, and working memory problems associated with ADHD cause problems at school for many students with these symptoms. Help your child learn smarter.

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Change the readability of articles to meet individual student needs.

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[music plays]

Camera pans slowly across a home kitchen, then cuts to a mirror. Sady, a woman with spastic cerebral palsy, is in the mirror's reflection. Her hair is being brushed by her caretaker.

Cut to various shots of Sady being dressed by her caretaker.

(Sady - narrating with the help of electronic voice software)

People think that having a disability is a barrier.

[wheels rolling]

Close-up of her electric wheelchair wheels rolling over a threshold.

[buttons clicking]

Cut to Sady, working with an iMac at a desk in her home. She moves her head to operate switches on both sides of her wheelchair headrest, typing in Pages through Switch Control.

(Sady narrating)

But that's not the way I see it.

Close-up of the iMac screen reveals her narration as it's being typed.

Cut to a young man holding up his iPhone while making sign language gestures.

(Sady narrating)

You can catch up with friends.

The man is using FaceTime to have a sign language conversation with a woman.

She signs back while smiling.

Cut to a young man, a boy, and a woman in a park. The young man is taking a photo of the boy with iPhone.

(Sady narrating)

You can capture a moment with your family.

Since the young man is blind, he uses the VoiceOver feature to follow audible commands in the Camera app.

(iPhone)

One face. Small face. Focus lock.

[Camera app shutter sound]

Cut to a close-up of a woman's hand holding an iPhone. She opens the Home app and taps the Good Morning button.

(Sady narrating)

And you can start the day bright and early.

The woman is lying in her bed. Her lamp turns on and the window shade rises automatically as a result of pressing the button. She moves from the bed to her wheelchair.

Cut to a doorway as a man exits, prepared to go on a hike with friends. He looks at his iPhone.

(Sady narrating)

You can take a trip to somewhere new.

Close-up of his ear reveals that he is wearing a hearing aid.

[wind blowing loudly]

Cut to a close-up of the man's iPhone screen. He selects Outdoor in his hearing aid settings.

[wind blowing quietly]

(Woman)

Three miles to the summit.

He continues walking to catch up with his friends.

Cut to a young boy in a classroom, studying on an iPad while wearing headphones.

(Sady narrating)

You can concentrate on every word of a story.

Cut to a close-up of the boy's iPad screen. "Home Before Dark" is the title of the chapter he's reading. His iPad reads the first sentence aloud, highlighting each word as it is spoken.

(iPad)

A bird began to sing.

Cut to a close-up of the boy's face as he reads and listens.

(iPad)

Jack opened his eyes.

Cut to a close-up of an Apple Watch on a woman's wrist.

She taps Outdoor Wheelchair Run Pace in the Workout app, then taps Start.

(Sady narrating)

You can take the long way home.

The woman quickly propels her wheelchair down a paved path beside the beach. Suddenly, she stops and begins moving backward, as if she were in a video being played in reverse.

[music swelling]

Camera zooms out to reveal that this is a video that Sady is editing in Final Cut Pro. All the previous scenes described above are quickly played in reverse as well.

(Sady narrating)

Or edit a film . . . like this one.

[buttons clicking]

Cut to a close-up of Sady, moving her head to operate switches on both sides of her wheelchair headrest, as she continues editing the film.

(Sady narrating)

When technology is designed for everyone . . .

[buttons clicking]

Cut to a close-up of Sady's iMac screen where she opens a directional controller and selects a downward motion. She moves the final clip into place - a shot of the woman in the wheelchair racing toward the sunset on the horizon.

(Sady narrating)

. . . it lets anyone do what they love . . . including me.

Cut to a close-up of Sady, smiling.

[click sound]

Cut to the Apple logo against a white background.

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5 Common Techniques for Helping Struggling Students

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Teachers use various methods to meet the needs of all students, including those who struggle.

Some methods include slowing down or speeding up the pace of the work for individual students within a classroom.

Other methods include using props such as charts and pictures to show students what they are expected to learn.

Teachers know that students walk into their classrooms with a wide range of abilities. But teachers try to find ways to meet the needs of all students, including those with learning and thinking differences. Here are five common teaching methods.

1. Differentiated instruction

With this approach, teachers change and switch around what students need to learn, how they'll learn it, and how to get the material across to them. When a student struggles in one area, the teacher creates a plan that includes extra practice, step-by-step directions, and special homework. Find out more about differentiated instruction.

This is a method that breaks learning into chunks. The chunks follow a logical order and move toward a clear goal. Teachers form a bridge between what students already know and what they cannot do on their own. These bridges are referred to as "scaffolds." They can include charts, pictures, and cue cards.

Teachers often use this method by presenting a model of high-quality work before asking students to work on their own. Just as they're used when constructing buildings, scaffolds are removed when they're no longer needed.

Using this method, a teacher draws a picture to map out thoughts and ideas. Graphic organization can help younger students with activities like identifying the characters in a story they've read. This can also help them plan and organize a story they'll write. Older students can "map out" history, like the events leading up to World War II, or compare and contrast people or topics.

Students use special phrases to help them remember information. Here's an example: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally is often used to remember the order of operations in math: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add and S ubtract.

This strategy can also help with learning vocabulary. For example, a child can learn the scientific name for the common frog, Ranidae, by using rain as the keyword along with a picture of a frog sitting in the rain.

5. Multisensory instruction

This method links what students see, what they hear, how they move, and what they feel. When students learn using all of their senses, they remember the material better. Math teachers might use base ten blocks and two-sided counters so that students learn through touch. Drawing might help students learn new vocabulary by capturing the meaning of a word and sketching it.

Each child learns differently. Teachers will use many creative methods to teach your child - and the other students - so they all learn.

Mapping out ideas using pictures and charts is especially effective with struggling students.

Strategies that involve memorizing phrases help students remember concepts longer.

When students use all their senses, they remember the material better.

About the Author

About the Author

Ginny Osewalt is a dually certified elementary and special education teacher with more than 15 years of experience in general education, inclusion, resource room, and self-contained settings.

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5 common techniques for helping struggling students

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Good teachers know that the best teaching strategies are based on research. Most of this research looks at how students take in what they're learning and how the best teachers give students information. Here are some teaching strategies that work for all children, including those with learning and attention issues.

Begin a lesson by reviewing the last lesson.

The best teachers make sure students really understand the skills they need for the day's lesson. That's because the new lesson builds on the lesson of the day before. A study found that when teachers spent eight minutes every day going over homework and common mistakes, and practicing skills their students needed to memorize, students got higher test scores.

Present new information in small steps.

The place in our brains where we process information is small-so when we're asked to learn too much at one time, we can get overwhelmed. A strategy called "chunking" can help with this. Chunking means teaching in small steps while checking for understanding along the way.

Ask many questions and talk about the answers.

Effective teachers ask lots of questions. They ask their students to explain how they got their answers. In a recent study, one group of teachers was asked to teach new material by asking questions and discussing. Their students ended up with higher scores than students whose teachers did not teach this way.

Provide models.

Good teachers show examples of problems that have already been solved. This can be very helpful, especially in math.

Ask students to explain what they learned.

Asking a student to think out loud while solving a problem or when planning to write an essay helps the teacher identify areas where a student needs more help. Research shows that this kind of out-loud thinking works much better than when a teacher simply asks students "Are there any questions?"

Provide scaffolds when teaching something difficult.

"Scaffolds" are teaching aids. Research tells us that aids like cue cards and charts can help children think more clearly as they learn new information. When teaching difficult material, teachers expect that students will make mistakes. So they show them ahead of times examples of the kinds of mistakes that are likely.

Review.

We know that students need a lot of practice and review to build and keep track of new ideas in their long-term memory. It's easier for students to solve new problems when they have a wealth of background knowledge. Children will often forget material if they don't keep practicing it.

These teaching strategies are good for all students-including students with learning and attention issues. Learn more about common techniques for teaching struggling learners.

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Good teachers know that the best teaching strategies are based on research. Most of this research looks at how students take in what they're learning and how the best teachers give students information. Here are some teaching strategies that work for all children, including those with learning and attention issues.

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Expert approved Apps for students with Learning Differences

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Apps for Kids with Special Needs and Learning Disabilities | Common Sense Media

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Find apps, games, and other tools to help kids with special needs and learning disabilities acquire and improve skills from communication and reading to math.

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