How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children: Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions for Helping Children with Attention Problems and Hyperactivity (J-B Ed: Reach and Teach) - Softcover

Focusing on the "whole child" and a team approach that lets you guide these children toward academic as well as personal success, the book shows you...

• What is ADD/ADHD and how to identify it
• Successful home-school itnervention plans based on actual case studies
• How to get and keep student attention & increase on-task behavior
• Specific management techniques that prevent behavioral problems
• What works best to improve students' organization and study skills
• Proven multi-sensory activities and methods for language arts, math, and writing instruction
• How to reach students through learning styles awareness, environmental modifications, and cooperative learning situations
• Various medications, their effects, and school management of them
• How to modify assignments and tests, and accommodate the child with writing difficulties
• Numerous strategies on how to manage kindergarten children
• How to use relaxation, guided imagery, visualization techniques, and music to get the most from your students
• How to avoid problems during transitional and noninstructional times
• A Parent's Story that deals with the many issues, feelings, and struggles that families face when a child has this disorder
• Interviews with teens and adults who share what made a significant difference in their lives

Plus you get sample contracts, charts, a student self-evaluation checklist, sample letters and documentation on communicating with physicians and agencies, a learning styles interview to use with children, obseration sheets, and an outline for a social skills planning unit to help you successfully manage the impulsive, overly stimulated, "quick-to-anger" child as well as the child who just can't focus.

In short, this complete resource is like having an expert at your side to answer virtually any question on how to reach and teach children who need your help and understanding!

Sandra Rief offers myriad real-life case studies, interviews, and student intervention plans for children with ADD/ADHD. In addition, the book contains best teaching practices and countless strategies for enhancing classroom performance for all types of students. This invaluable resource offers proven suggestions for:

• Engaging students' attention and active participation
• Keeping students on-task and productive
• Preventing and managing behavioral problems in the classroom
• Differentiating instruction and addressing students' diverse learning styles
• Building a partnership with parents
• and much more.