Students from John Jay High School’s World of Difference Club led school board members through exercises designed to simulate what it’s like to have various disabilities.
Try this: take an index card, hold it to your forehead, and try writing your name backwards. Challenged? Read more
Could anesthesia cause ADHD in your child?
A retrospective study published Thursday in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings has found children who have more than one surgery with general anesthesia by age 3 may be at higher risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Mayo Clinic researchers examined medical records of 341 children diagnosed with ADHD and compared those who had undergone surgery at early ages to those who had not.
Results of the study indicated nearly 18 percent of children exposed twice or more to anesthesia before age 3 developed ADHD. That rate dropped to 11 percent among children who had only been exposed once, and further still to 7 percent among children who had never been exposed to anesthesia. Read more
What is backward chaining and how can it help teach your ADHD child? Read on:
How one mom used backward chaining to teach her ADHD child — slowly, patiently — how to master fine-motor skills like tying a shoe and getting dressed.
Teaching kids with motor-skills challenges and/or ADHD to tie their shoes, get dressed, or take a bath takes creativity, lots of patience, and, especially, a sense of humor. A parent can try using oral instructions, writing down the steps on poster board in colorful ink, or drawing pictures to show how to do the task. One thing that has worked for my daughter is teaching the task in reverse order — a process called backward chaining.
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How one mom used backward chaining to teach her ADHD child — slowly, patiently — how to master fine-motor skills like tying a shoe and getting dressed.
Teaching kids with motor-skills challenges and/or ADHD to tie their shoes, get dressed, or take a bath takes creativity, lots of patience, and, especially, a sense of humor. A parent can try using oral instructions, writing down the steps on poster board in colorful ink, or drawing pictures to show how to do the task. One thing that has worked for my daughter is teaching the task in reverse order — a process called backward chaining. Read more
Keira Knightley: Sense and Sensibility screenplay helped me overcome dyslexia
Keira Knightley, the actress, has disclosed that she overcame dyslexia as a child by reading a screenplay by Emma Thompson. Read more
IT behind ‘astounding’ gains in spelling age
five-year mission yields top results and may be extended over East Renfrewshire
An East Renfrewshire teacher’s five-year quest to improve pupils’ spelling using IT has led to remarkable results and the possible extension of her approach across the authority.
Children who struggled with deciphering words, some of whom were mildly dyslexic, improved their spelling ages by an average of 14 months and, in certain cases, by up to 30 months in a school year. Read more
Petition to get special needs training in all teacher training courses
The British Dyslexia Association (BDA) has launched a petition to the government requesting that sufficient dyslexia training be provided as part of Initial Teacher Training.
The BDA need 100,000 signatures to trigger a debate in Parliament.
I am sure you will probably all be astounded that in this day and age there is no provision in Teacher Training for Special Needs: dyslexia; dyscalculia; dysgraphia etc.
If you agree with the petition would you please sign it and ask your friends to do the same. Read more
An ADHD woman battles disorganization with a highly personalized clutter-busting system — and wins.
Erica — the woman I had called in desperation to help me clear out my clutter — held up a yellow scrap of paper, and I crumpled in shame. I had misplaced this note at the bottom of a laundry basket full of papers that I stashed in my husband’s office. The note was buried there for two years. Read more
Dyslexia makes voices harder to discern, study found
Writing in the journal Science, the scientists say that many people could have some
degree of “voice blindness”. Read more
The High Court heard thatA nine-year-old dyslexic boy has won the right to
challenge his lack of direct access to a specialist literacy teacher.
The boy was granted leave to seek a judicial review at the High Court on
Tuesday.
Judge Mr Justice Treacy heard that nearly 70 other children within the South
Eastern Education and Library Board are in the same situation. Read more
