Homework, Study Skills and Helping Your Child at Home

Helping at Home

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    Does Your Child Need a Tutor?
    Sometimes a tutor is needed to help keep a child with ADHD on track with schoolwork, organization and life outside the classroom.
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    School Starts - Now What?
    Children with ADHD traditionally have a tough time transitioning, whether it's from play time to bedtime, moving from classroom to classroom and just about everything in between. Starting school is no different. Here are 10 strategies to help your child start off with a bang.
  • 10 Suggestions for Winning the Homework Wars
    Homework time is an ongoing challenge when parenting children with ADHD. After sitting in school all day, it can sometimes be impossible for them to sit still again at home to work again. The following are five tips for helping families make it through homework time.
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    Getting Involved in Your Child's Education
    Here are ten simple ideas to help you become involved in your child's education.
  • Study Skills for High School Students with ADHD
    For high school students with ADD/ADHD, tests can be a source of great frustration. Studying the night before certainly doesn’t guarantee that you will retain the information and remember it during the test. Here are some tips to help out.
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    Helping Your Child at School
    Children with ADHD often struggle in school, not because they lack the intelligence to succeed, but they may lack the ability to pay attention, may lose or forget to hand in homework or simply need some additional, one-on-one attention to reinforce or learn the lesson they missed.
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    Choosing After School Activities
    It has long been known by parents of children with ADHD that the problems associated with ADHD do not go away when the school bell rings at 3:00.

Resources for Parents

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    Making the Most of the School Year
    Now that you are a teenager, school becomes more demanding, teachers expect more and you are expected to complete more of the work on your own. All of this is difficult for a teen with ADHD. But there are steps you can take to help this year be your best ever.
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    Learning Styles
    People tend to perceive information in different ways and this has an impact on how we learn. Some people are visual learners, they learn better if they can “see” the information. Other people may learn better through hearing, or touch. Although each of us is able to learn through all of the different learning styles, a person will learn and retain information easier through their learning style.
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    ADHD and Giftedness
    For children that are gifted with ADHD, unique problems can develop. There may be difficulty in diagnosis; either the high intellect can cause ADHD to go undiagnosed or the symptoms of ADHD may cause giftedness to go undetected.
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    ADHD and Learning Disabilities
    School age children with learning disabilities can have difficulty in reading, spelling, writing and/or arithmetic. One of the most well known learning disability is dyslexia, a reading disability. It is estimated that up to 8% of school age children have a reading disability.
  • The People You Meet - School Personnel
    When you have a child or children with ADHD, chances are you will spend time working with various school personnel. The different people you meet have different responsibilities and each do a different job. Each of them can help you to help your child succeed. Knowing what the different titles and job descriptions are can help you determine who can help when something goes awry.
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