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ADHD and Early childhood. Incidence and Interventions. Interventions that Work for ADHD. ADHD Statistics. 4.5 million children have been identified as ADHD (2006 data from CDC) 3%-7% of the school population boys (9.5%) are more likely than girls (5.9%) to have been diagnosed with ADHD.
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ADHD and Early childhood Incidence and Interventions
ADHD Statistics • 4.5 million children have been identified as ADHD (2006 data from CDC) • 3%-7% of the school population • boys (9.5%) are more likely than girls (5.9%) to have been diagnosed with ADHD.
Birthday There is a huge difference between a 5 year old and a 6 year old in ability to attend to task. At the beginning of a first grade year- there are children who are almost 7 and children who are almost 6 depending on the cut-off for Kindergarten in your state. Research indicates grouping children by birthdays in classes would be best. August-October November-January February-April May-July
Consider This • Kindergarten cut-off date in Pittsburgh is September 1. • Johnny’s birthday is September 24 • Kindergarten cut-off date in St. Louis is July 1. • Kallie’s birthday is June 30 • They both start first grade at the same school in Bethel, PA after being in their previous cities. Just turned six years old 3 weeks before school started. 3 weeks from being 7
State Prevalence Center for Disease Control-2003
I don’t have time to do all this… Which fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?
Functional Differences • Power performance on timed tasks • Slower reaction time • Slower processing time • Lower problem solving abilities • Less fine motor control • Less gross motor control • Problems with inhibitions
Brain Structural Differences • Smaller frontal lobe and right hemisphere is about 5% smaller than students who do not demonstrate ADHD symptoms.
Living with ADHD:A Demonstration • Follow along as a volunteer reads from the • following screens and reports any challenges. • The text is from a 6th grade-level source, with • no foreign words. • Credit: Emily Chase, Do you use hand sanitizer?, Academic • Advocate, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine, January 9, 2008
Part 1: Read the text • Use of hand sanitizers has become • increasingly popular in hospitals, • schools, day care centers, and even on • the gangways of ships. They work well • when soap and water are not available, • and are a quick way to disinfect one’s • hands.
Let’s use a Likert Scale to rate of the difficulty reading the previous passage. Now….Part 2: Read the text and do NOT include italicized words
Part 2: Read the text and do NOT include italicized words Hand sanitizers often stop it you are bugging me include among their ingredients 60% or more what he she doing there of ethyl alcohol, isopropanol, look at that, or ethanol, or other similar compound If a hand where’s my pencil sanitizer contains less shoot – I dropped it - than 60% of one of these ingredients, it this is stupid, I quit will not be effective in killing germs.
Let’s use a Likert Scale to rate of the difficulty reading the previous passage. Now….Part 3: Read the text and do NOT include italicized words
Part 3: Read the text and do NOT include italicized words A study conducted conducted recently demonstrated the effect of of using hand sanitizers with less than 60% alcohol content. Students had one hand hand covered in sanitizer with 60+% alcohol 50%? and the other hand with less than 60% alcohol. Then each each hand was placed in a culture plate with germs.
Let’s use a Likert Scale to rate of the difficulty reading the previous passage. Thanks go to our demonstrator!
101 Strategies for Classroom Management of ADHD (or maybe 30ish) • Display classroom rules
Break up activities • Complex assignments into smaller parts.
Post a Daily Schedule and Stick to It • Tape it on the child's desk. • Have them mark of activities as they complete them.
Kinesthetic Activities Connect visual and auditory • Take an ordinary rubber ball and a permanent marking pen. • Divide the ball into sections. • Write questions all over the ball. • The students toss the ball and where their right thumb lands- that is the question they must answer. • The child can “phone” a friend if needed. • The student then chooses to toss the ball to someone else.
Watch for fatigue • Send on an errand if they look like they are straining. • It is very hard work to read something three times and still not know what you read. • Be there figit monitor
Sit N Fit Disc or Disc’o sit http://www.benchmonster.com/yoga.htm $16.00
Two Desks Permission to move with parameters
Provide an appropriate foot rest $30.00 Make sure the custodian clamps the ends so they can not come loose. $1.00 for three
