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Summary: A Great Resource for Teachers with All Kinds of Students
Review: I bought this book as a parent of a 12-year-old boy who has been recently diagnosed with ADHD. I was searching for resources to offer my son's teachers. After having read alot of other books, and articles on the subject, I was impressed at the user friendliness of this book for teachers. Not only does it put into practice many of the recommendations for students with ADHD found in current literature, but it emphasises how ALL students would benefit from many of the classroom ideas, thus "normalizing" our exceptional children. The ideas are listed in an easily referenced table of contents and give teachers short, easy-to-understand techniques that even a lay person such as myself has no difficutly following. Each one also has PHOTOCOPIABLE, classroom-ready material yet it is designed in such a way as to be flexible enough to meet the needs of individual students. Teachers can pick and choose which ideas/strategies they think would work and most of the ideas are modifiable for younger/older students. From "framed" math sheets, to student-teacher-contract forms, to the many ideas for positively reinforcing desired behaviors, this book has it all in a truely readily accessible format. Out of the 40 + ideas that this book presents, there was only one(#16,"Use Victim Cards") that I didn't like from the point of view of the child with ADHD. Inspite of this one idea that may in fact work very well for many other kids, I loved the book for the rest of the ideas, worksheets, and behavior modification techniques using positive reinforcement.
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