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Running Head: HOW TO TEACH THE ADHD KIDS

How to teach the ADHD kids Chu-Hsuan Hsia Liberty University

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), although not a learning disability, can affect one's ability to succeed. ADHD is the most common disease in children’s mental illness. Boys are more than girls. ADHD is the kinds of behavior and learning difficulties, as the performance of diseases. Children have no physical discomfort. Individuals with ADHD often have trouble paying attention, sitting still, or finishing tasks.
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** Symptoms ** (A) Lack of concentration:or fo r schoolwork , and doing things the lack of coherent organization.

(B) Hyperactivity: C hildren cannot concentrate when they are studying, short-term concentrate cannot be sustained. It is very easy to be distracted by things and act careless, they are often make mistakes, forgotten some items which need to use it, hate or evade it needs careful to do things, especially reading  Hyperactive kids’ activities are large amount, so that they cannot be quiet when sitting, and doing homework. The body always moving around all the time even when they are sitting. Some cases are the more conversation and talkative.

(C) Impulse:  Hyperactive kids are doing something impulsive, lack of consideration, lack of patience, and they cannot wait, easy to interfere with other people. They are love to speak during the other people is speaking.

<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Concentration will seriously affect the student's learning and achievements. Because of the majority of ADHD children's intelligence is normal, so parents and the teachers should be supervising their academic achievement. It can be a temporary quick climb, but when parents relaxed performance and this will also drop immediate. The hyperactivity and impulsive symptoms are cause by one's conduct on the interference and interpersonal conflict. <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 8pt;">The ADHD children would interfere with classroom order, prone to action or accident, causing injuries to themselves or others, so the parents and teachers have to take care of a lot of pressure, because of the students will physically interfere with movements, so that they often unpopular figure in the class. <span style="background: white; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">

My Teaching principles <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">I was teaching English and Art when I was in Taiwan, before I get in to the University in U.S.A. And I had three ADD students in my class. I want to share some teaching ideas to you, but because of the time, I think I will just going to share one of my ADD students. His name is David. He is from a broken family, and he has to eat drugs every morning. Increase the external stimulus to reduce the possibility of tired, in the same time, the learning environment and process as much as possible the complex, tortuous and more volatile.

1. Directions or instructions to be simplistic, do not told too much in the same time.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> The attention of David is not only sustainable; the hearing process is also a problem. It is not easy to fully understand what was heard, so I need to simplify the instructions or orders.

<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">2. To provide some choice and to enhance the activities of his sense of participation.

The teachers can find some opportunities outside school hours, let her to be your little helper, you can increase their sense of achievement. This is very help the relationships between you and the kids, and he will know how to hang out with the other classmates. <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">



<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">3. Manufacturing activities, the opportunity to assist him in his consumption of some excess energy.

Sometimes I will let David paints on the floor before class start in the morning, because that he cannot sit on the chair over 20 minutes. So it is good to let him has bigger place to do something, and I find out that he really loves painting on the floor. He can paint on the floor after 50 minutes without eating medicine. And when he is painting on the floor, not only the hands are moving, his body is moving too.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">4. Distributed learning time

<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Each time is not more than 20 minutes to learn, and interspersed different subjects to study, first to learn the subjects he likes, and then to study more subjects. When I was teaching David English, he cannot concentrate on his paper so that he will write on the table. I figured out that he just need change the focus on the others, so I putted the phonics lesson card with tapes on the table. And he can use the white board pen to write on the card and use the white board cleaner to wipe them out. The <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> normal kids will write ten times letters on the paper, and David will write 5 times on the paper and 5times in the card, so the purposes are the same. And I do not clean the table every time after the English class.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**Conclusion** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> ADD children are not stupid, they just need more time and more teaching method to educate them. And the important thing is as a teacher, we should love our students, each of them. So that we will find what exactly they need, and pray for them. My other ADD kids name is Joe. He is also from a broken family, and the sad thing is his teacher in school does not like him. Because that Joe cannot concentrate on his readying in the morning, so the teacher does not want him come to the school begin 2 hours in the morning. We have to go to school since 8 A.M until 5P.M, and we always have two hours in the morning to eat break first, reading, studying, and check the homework. We do not have play time. That is very hard for the ADD students, so his Mom told me about this. She said,” This morning I was walk with Joe during the school first two hours, because of the teacher wants he goes to the school after 10A.M. And Joe was asking his mom,” Mom, am I a bad boy?” And her mom asks him why? He said, because I cannot go to school like everybody, and I have to eat medicine every day. And I know that if I do not eat medicine, I will bit the other classmates. But I really do not want to eat medicine.” His Mom just told him that he is a good boy, but you just need eat medicine every morning. And his Mom just ran to the school to talk to the president about this. After Joe change the class, he is doing very good on everything. I think that as a teacher should love everyone, teach them, and pray for them. God will that you know how to teach the special students.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**WORKS CITED**

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Bass Pat F. ADHD Symptoms and Your Child’s Behavior. (2010) • Bussing Regina. What Cause Attention Deficit Disorders. (2010) • Goldstein Sam. From Assessment to Treatment: Developing a Comprehensive Plan to Help Your Child with ADHD. (2000) • McIntyre Thomas, Straaegies Teaching Youthwith ADD and ADHD. (2004) • Nevak Laura, ADD/ ADHD, Attention Disorders Eyesight, vision, Diagnsis, Treatments. (2009) • Rabiner David. Two Questions: How Old Does A Child Need to be for ADHD to be Diagnosed? How Can I help my Child Not to be Discouraged by ADHD. (2000) • Rodriguez Diana, ADHD Symptoms and Your Child’s Behavior. (2009) • Silver Larry, Why are There so Many Different Medications to Treat ADHD. (2010) • Watkins Carol E. Treating Girls and Women with Attention Deficit Disorder. (2004)

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**Questions:**

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">1. Which one is not the ADHD symptoms? A. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lack of concentration <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">B. Hyperactivity C.Impulse D. Lower wisdom 2. True/ False. All the ADHD kids are teachable. 3. When the ADHD kids cannot concentrate on the writing the words on the paper, what should a teacher do? A. Put the lesson card with the tape on the table. B. Allow them to write on the table. C. Give them more time to write on the paper sheet. D. Just give up and let them go to play. 4. True/ False. Do not allow the ADHD kids paint on the floor, that just make a duty floor and does not help anything. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. How long is the best to d <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">istribute the learning time <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 8pt;">? <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">A. No more than 50 minutes B. No more than 40 minutes C. No more than 30 minutes <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> D.   <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> No more than 20 minutes