A.D.D. and difficulty reading

I have an 8 yr. old who has A.D.D. and difficulty reading. Does anyone have any teaching methods, tips or strategies for me. Thank you

Take a look at this web site for some practical information and suggestions:

http://www.dys-add.com/teach.html

Try breaking up the lessons more. For example, Spend 10 or 15 minutes on reading then let him go spend half an hour playing a fun game. Come back to reading and pick up where you left off for another 15 minutes. Long attention is hard for ppl with ADD. So don't ask for that. Instead, take the lesson that is an hour long and insert it at 4 different points in the day, in shorter time blocks.

Words are all around us. So use your surroundings. Take him to more places do more fun things. There are captions at the zoo next to the animal cages. Quick little captions, and cool animals are fun for kids... So take that and use it. Museums also have captions.

All kids like puzzles. Word puzzles and codes are fun. Make a simple pictogram code, and write short messages with him as a game give him the key, and let him figure out which letter corresponds to which little picture and write that letter under the picture and then read the completed message.

Seriously, my mother actually resorted to writing me messages with my food on my plate.

thas my thoughts. Good luck!

The studies done National Institutes of Health, Child Health and Human Development, show that while 60% of students do fine (to varying degees) with whole word/whole language (now called balanced literacy) reading instruction, 40% don't and need systematic phonics based reading instruction. Currently, a large percentage of schools do not provide this kind of instruction. It is possible that your son is in this 40% and/or has specific reading disability. Go to www.interdys.org to find information about the chracteristic of children who have reading disabilities.

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As for what everyone else's excuse is, well i have no idea, maybe they all have ADHD too, even those not labled with it? Who knows? I certainly don't. I do know though, that having a venue to ask is far better than not having one. Even if it does take 2 years to get an answer. Some of us have been looking for answers for 25 years. And still have none and have gotten no further than when we started all thosse years ago. So 2 years seems.... Fast.

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3. Find another forum, one that maybe does what option 2 states.
4.Suck it up, and put up. And be a part of this forum for all it's imperfections it does help some. Maybe even you one day... Who knows?
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6. Ask instead how you can make it a better place to seek guidance.

Good luck!