larryshoat":339ti7fr said:
I've hired and currently have 2 kids that work for me with ADHD. They will work like nothing you've ever seen, it takes a little more management to keep them on track, but both great kids. I think schools today do a much better job of identifying learning problems in kids. After they identify the problem the can better plan for a kids success in school.
Larry
This may sound a bit funny but I have actually hired a person whose main responsibility is to keep me in line. In some ways ADHD is a gift but one must know the pit-falls of having it and find a way through it.
You are correct in that the schools have identified the fact that ADHD students learn differently. They are doing a much better job today. Once a year I volunteer a day to talk to junior high students that have it. Since the last letter in the name represents disorder I titled my presentation "You have a gift, You just have to learn how to use it"
Over 70% of adults with ADHD have never been diagnosed.
Some of the signs.
Your handwriting is terrible.
You are a caffeine addict.
A high percentage smoke.
The mind wonders during conversations, you may change the topic several times.
You have to reread almost everything several times.
You procrastinate.
You forget.
Books put you to sleep.
If you have children with ADHD, you may find it it hard to get them to settle down and go to sleep. As an adult when you wake in the middle of the night you cannot go back to sleep. (The reason I am up now)
Try getting them on the computer rather than a book. It is hands on. Works for me.
Let them do there work in may 15 minute sessions. Their mind may not stay on track much longer than that.
They told me to make lists, but I always forget where I put it.
You have the ability to solve problems. The answers seem obvious or just to be common sense. I am hired as a consultant by a couple of engineering companies for just that purpose. I hire engineering companies to put the numbers together.
Sorry about stealing the thread. Just thought this was important. Well to me anyway.