How To Reach And Teach Children with ADD / ADHD: Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions (J–B Ed: Reach and Teach) - Softcover

Rief, Sandra F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787972959 ISBN 13: 9780787972950

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 2005

Synopsis

How To Reach And Teach Children with ADD/ADHD is a comprehensive tool to help students with ADD/ADHD succeed. With enhanced new content in many areas, the Second Edition of this highly successful book is designed to serve as a guide for school personnel trying to make a difference in the lives of children who have been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD.

About this title

Review

"It is both a pleasure and a privilege to provide this strong and unequivocal endorsement of so informative and consumer–friendly a book as this one. Grounded in the latest science of ADHD, filled with exceptionally detailed advice . . . parents and educators will find this book to be exceptionally useful in raising a successful ADHD child."
––Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, and author, Taking Charge of ADHD

"For over a decade, Sandra Rief s How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD has been the most definitive and user–friendly go–to guide for teachers and parents eager to help children with ADHD succeed in school, home, and life overall. Now updated with the latest research findings from the last ten years, this book outstrips even the original. Unlike so many other volumes, this book is hands–on, well–organized, extremely readable, and full of the kind of wise, practical advice that only comes from someone who has been there (and continues to be there!) helping teachers, parents, children, and youth struggling with ADHD. I especially like the focus on different ages, school settings, and subjects. My highest recommendation for this book, and my greatest praise for Sandra making this invaluable resource available!"
––Peter S. Jensen, M.D., director, Center for the Advancement of Children s Mental Health and Ruane Professor of Child Psychiatry at Columbia University

"Sandra Rief is one of the most astute as well as compassionate voices in the world about ADHD. She really gets it, and this book will give you what she gets. A wonderful contribution and valuable, practical resource for all teachers, parents, and clinicians."
––Edward Hallowell, M.D., author, When Your Worry About the Child You Love and coauthor, Driven to Distraction

"This valuable resource should be at every teacher s fingertips! Sandra Rief offers current research–based strategies and information on ADHD that are a must read for every educator."
––Ellen Stantus, special education director, Davis School District, Farmington, Utah

"This book not only addresses the latest research on this neuro–biological difference, but goes further by offering creative strategies for home and school in order to help these students reach their full potential. As always, Sandra Rief fills her book with what to do about it."
––Jill Murphy, special educator, ADHD life skills and academic coach, ADD Resources Parent Support, and mother of two children with ADD/ADHD, Bonney Lake, Washington

From the Back Cover

For educators, specialists, and parents, here is a remarkable new resource packed with classroom–tested techniques and practical know–how for helping children with attention deficit disorders––with or without hyperactivity.

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!

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0787972959
• ISBN 13: 9780787972950
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 464