I am a first year 4th grade teacher. I have a young boy in my class that has ADD. I have to modify ever lesson for him and most of his classmates have noticed. They ask questions and make him feel singled out. How do I explain to them that he needs the extra help and also make him feel more included.
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I have two things I want to mention. I have a son who has inattentive add, I will start with in class work, my son’s teachers let him take tests along with the other students and if he bombs them he retakes them. In 4th grade, his teacher would bring him to her desk afterwards and ask him to go over his answers with him. He always attempted whatever classwork the other kids were working on. Also he does well with cooperative learning.
This leads to the second thing, which is in 4th grade his teacher was accommodating him and modifying for him as much as she could, this particular teacher was out for the first 4 weeks of school but within 2 weeks of working with my son she knew he needed more help and her assistance was invaluable to me in getting him the help he needed. He was referred for his second school eval during 4th (he was evaled in 2nd also) and found eligible for sp.ed services.
Because of his reading difficulties he was in pullout for lang.arts/reading for part of 4th and all of 5th grades. However, he was mostly affected by his add and categorized OHI.
He currently is an 8th grader, still receiving sp.ed help in all regular classes, he will probably need this through high school and possibly college as well.
I hope this helps some. Best wishes.
Amy
Re: Student with ADD
Many students are misdiagnosed as ADD with or without hyperactivity and what they really have is a reading deficiency. What are they doing about his reading problems. Many times, when the child can read, the ADD goes away. The symptoms of both ADD and a reading disability can be the same.
Re: Student with ADD
ADD is a learning ‘deficiency’ or as is more commonly said, ADD is a learning disability.
I don’t understand what you’re saying here. Students with learning disabilities may be offered remediation but that doesn’t mean they are not entitled to accomodations and modfications. What miracle remediation is there for ADD anyway such that a student would not require accomodations?
Why do you have to modify each lesson and in what way? Does he have learning deficiencies? If so, why isn’t he labeled LD and receiving remediation?