Many parents, teachers, and extended family members find themselves responsible for the education or support of a child or teenager with either dyslexia, ADD, ADHD etc. This resource hopefully will provide practical methods and strategies which can use to help raise achievement levels.

• Boredom: Children need movement, stimulation and activity. Children need to be challenged.
  
• Trying out new behaviours: normal part of development to do.
  
• Weather Change.
  
• Staying indoors for a long period of time (illness or weather).
  
• Needs not being met
  
• Allergies
  
• Fatigue
  
• Hidden messages: "It's Okay he's aggressive he's a boy" or "She can't do that it isn't lady like"
  
• Child that may be abused
  
• Over indulged child.
  
• Negative behaviours are usually reinforced.
  
• Too much TV
  
• Hunger
  
• Disorder such as ADHD/Dyslexia

• Never stays on task;
  
• Always distracted;
  
• Poor Memory retention;
  
• Phonic awareness;
  
• Bad written work;
  
• Work never completed;
  
• Fidgets all the time;
  
• Disruptive;
  
• Can not be still for any given time;
  
• Argues with adults and peers;
  
• Always picking a fight or argument for attention;
  
• Says never their fault that things go wrong;
  
• Reaction to name calling (low self-esteem);
  
• Told they will never get anywhere (Low confidence);
  
• General label of being a dummy etc and not understanding why.

Warning Signs

To help parents try to identify if their children have ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia.

Learning Styles

The ways in which people learn.

Language Arts Reading Comprehension

These instructional practices will help children with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia, who are poor readers, improve their reading comprehension skills.

Phonics and Grammar

Effective ways to help children with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia, master phonics and grammar rules

Writing

In composing stories or other writing assignments, children with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia benefit from these practices:

Handwriting

Students with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia, who have difficulty with manuscript or cursive writing benefit from these instructional practices.

Mathematics

There are several individualised instructional practices that can help children with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia, improve their basic computation skills.

Solving Word Problems

To help children with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia, improve their skill in solving word problems in mathematics.

Special Materials

Some children with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia benefit from using special materials to help them complete their mathematics assignments.

Organisational Skills

Many students with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia are easily distracted and have difficulty focusing their attention on assigned tasks. However, there are several practices that can help children with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia improve their organisation of homework and other daily assignments.

Behaviour Management

Children with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia often are impulsive and hyperactive. Effective teachers use behaviour management techniques to help these children learn how to control their behaviour.

Counselling

In some instances, children with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia need counselling to learn how to manage their own behaviour.

Classroom Accommodations

Many children with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia benefit from accommodations that reduce distractions in the classroom environment. These accommodations, which include modifications within both the physical environment and learning environment of the classroom, help some children with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia stay on task and learn. Accommodations of the physical environment include determining where a child with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia will sit in the classroom.