Discover how to support a child with ADHD at school by establishing communication with teachers, seeking accommodations, and creating a support network. Gain insights from a role-playing discussion between a teacher and a parent, and learn about the challenges of remote learning for children with ADHD. Find tips for advocating for high school students and effective communication strategies for parents.
Establish good communication with teachers to ensure school success for children with ADHD.
Teachers can support ADHD children by minimizing distractions and fostering teamwork among students, teachers, and parents.
Deep dives
Challenges Faced by Children with ADHD at School
Children with ADHD may face various challenges at school based on different ADHD types, including inattentiveness with careless mistakes, being easily distracted, and incomplete tasks, as well as hyperactivity with fidgeting, blurting out answers, and social struggles such as missing social cues and maintaining friendships.
Teacher Strategies to Support ADHD Children at School
Teachers can support ADHD children by minimizing distractions, using verbal and nonverbal cues for redirection, providing immediate feedback, offering breaks during tasks, incorporating multi-sensory learning, encouraging improvement recognition, facilitating social interactions, and fostering a teamwork approach among students, teachers, and parents.
Effective Communication between Parents and Teachers for ADHD Students
Establishing clear communication channels between parents and teachers is crucial, including discussing medications, observable changes, and self-esteem impact, collaborating on effective ways to improve home-school coordination, understanding and monitoring IEP or 504 accommodations, creating target behaviors at home to reinforce school support, coordinating with multiple teachers effectively, and advocating for ADHD awareness and support in the classroom.
It’s school time again, and as a parent, you want to make sure your child with ADHD has all the necessary tools to succeed in the classroom. Therefore, it’s crucial that you establish good communication with your child’s teacher at the beginning of the school year to ensure a smooth and successful term. If your child requires accommodations, how do you know if they are being provided or working? What is the best way to stay in contact with teachers? What if your child’s teacher isn’t familiar with ADHD—what should you do? This role-playing episode features Laci Culbreth, Head of School at Chatham Academy, and Jami Demuth, CHADD’s Midwest Regional Manager. You will learn the importance of establishing good communication with your child’s teachers, getting school support for your child’s learning challenges, asking for accommodations, creating a support network, and much more.
Laci Culbreth
Head of School at Chatham Academy
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools have transitioned to remote learning or hybrid learning. For learners with ADHD, there are many changes that can make it difficult to succeed at home. Parents and teachers are discovering new ways to help students learn to the best of their abilities. Laci Culbreth discusses the difficulties of ADHD symptoms while learning from home and talks about her experience as a teacher. She provides suggestions for parents on how to help their children with ADHD at home. She also discusses strategies teachers can use to increase support for students with ADHD through remote learning.
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