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Giftedness & ADHD: A Strengths-Based Perspective and Approach - CHADD - 0 views

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adhd

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  • Gifted children suffer when undue expectations exist without consideration of other complex characteristics that define their day-to-day experience.
  • Twice exceptional children experience a tug-of-war depending on what combination of strengths and challenges they display.
  • Recognizing strengths and supporting the challenges of each diagnosis goes a long way toward helping these children increase their self-esteem and reach their potential.
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  • it is important to understand and do better for our twice exceptional children whose abundant and limitless potential often is squandered because of a serious lack of understanding of their day-to-day experiences.
  • Gifted children with ADHD often show heightened intensity and sensitivity, but they are set up to fail in a system that only recognizes and expects intellectual proclivity without consideration of their emotional needs.
  • It is important for gifted children to feel fulfilled by meaningful relationships with parents, teachers and professionals who understand these other characteristics that accompany the high IQ scores.
  • There are at least three levels of giftedness: gifted, highly gifted, and profoundly gifted, all of which may require differentiation within the same classroom.
  • Asynchronous development is when someone demonstrates strength in one area and relative deficit in another. The stronger the strength, the more disparate the asynchrony and when some areas of accomplishment come easily and others do not, the result is confusion and frustration for both the child and everyone around him
  • Perfectionism, another characteristic of the gifted experience, often comes with anxiety.
  • Gifted children are often told how smart they are from an early age. This type of praise can set perfectionists up to fail as they worry about letting others down.
  • Anxiety is often found in gifted and twice exceptional children, as well as in children with ADHD. Because these children are frequently misunderstood, challenged to control emotions and impulses, frustrated over executive functioning challenges, regularly chastised for behavior and need for movement, they fear their next reprisal, their next failure, their next out-of-sync move.
  • Intensity is another shared characteristic. Frequently referred to as over excitabilities in gifted literature, gifted folks tend to experience emotional, intellectual, imaginational, sensory, and psychomotor realms in big, bold, all-encompassing ways.
  • Once you’ve met one twice-exceptional child, you’ve met one twice-exceptional child.
  • Behavior is communication
  • The best way to create safe spaces for these children is to set up systems in homes and classrooms that structure activities, account for potential social difficulties, dial down possible sensory challenges, and in effect, plan for potential pitfalls
  • Most important, knowing that these children desperately want to succeed and need an adult’s help to do so, is imperative for strengthening self-esteem and realizing potential.
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MAHA Report Takeaways: ADHD Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment - 0 views

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  • The MAHA Report increases ADHD stigma by claiming the condition is overdiagnosed and disparaging its treatment as ineffective without citing any credible evidence. Notably, it does not mention the proven, life-saving benefits of ADHD treatment or the risks associated with undiagnosed, untreated ADHD. This is worrisome.
  • Do you know what else improves quality of life for kids? Less stigma and shame, and more investment and solutions.
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Girls with ADHD - 0 views

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  • “I wish I had grown up hearing the following words of encouragement – the things all girls with ADHD need to hear to build their self-esteem and avoid viewing their symptoms as character flaws.”
  • A diagnosis as a child would have been incredible. But beyond that, I wish I had grown up hearing the following words of encouragement – the things all girls with ADHD need to hear to build their self-esteem and avoid viewing their symptoms as character flaws.
  • “You’ll need to stand up for yourself over and over. And that’s OK.”
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  • “We will stand up for you.”
  • “Accommodations are a legal entitlement, not a favor.”
  • “Other girls with ADHD need you as a friend.”
  • “Other people don’t decide your value.”
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Busy vs Productive: Battling ADHD Procrastivity - 0 views

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ADHD

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  • Use this checklist to ensure you’re being productive — and not engaging in the busy work associated with procrastivity.
  • 1. Is the task on your to-do list?
  • 2. Are you rationalizing?
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  • Procrastivity distorts your thoughts and tricks you into believing that you’re being productive.
  • Scott Nancarrow on 22 Oct 24
     
    "Procrastivity" - *definitely* stealing this term!!
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The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books - The Atlantic - 0 views

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reading

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  • students have become overwhelmed by the reading
  • Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.
  • It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading. It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to.
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  • “Every generation, at some point, discovers that students cannot read as well as they would like or as well as professors expect.”
  • students tell him up front that the reading load feels impossible. It’s not just the frenetic pace; they struggle to attend to small details while keeping track of the overall plot.
  • There are always students who “read insightfully and easily and write beautifully,” he said, “but they are now more exceptions.”
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Social Skills for Kids with ADHD: Friendship Strategies That Work - 0 views

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adhd social skills strategies

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  • To demonstrate that people have a range of thoughts based on situational context, I use what I’ve dubbed the “Cringe to Clutch o’Meter” – a visual tool that helps improve perspective-taking in children.
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A Summer Plan for Back-to-School Success: Organization Tips - 0 views

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summer plan

shared by Scott Nancarrow on 22 May 24 - No Cached
  • Week One
  • begin the school organizing/clean-out process by decluttering binders, folders, and notebooks
  • Week Two
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  • Have your kids write their assignments in their new planners and on a family calendar for all to see
  • Week Three
  • Empty out leftover school supplies from backpacks and desk drawers
  • Make a list of what you have and what you need, then take advantage of end-of-the-school-year sales.
  • Week Four
  • Organize your home’s designated homework spot
  • Week Eight-ish
  • restart routines around two weeks before the first day of school. That includes pushing up bedtime, setting back-to-school screen schedules, and practicing getting up and out the door on time in the morning.
  • Right Now
  • Take time now to create your summer calendar to feel more prepared. Add vacations, kids’ sports activities or summer camps, family reunions or parties, and any events you’re committed to attending.
  • Make sure to use this time to schedule the unscheduled!
  • Bonus tip: Involve your children in your activities and summer plans.
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Improving Multiple-Choice Questions: A Thought-Provoking Pause |Education & Teacher Con... - 0 views

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multiple-choice questions thinking learning

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  • well-designed MCQs could offer us the good stuff (“simplicty”) without the bad stuff (“merely surface learning”)
  • prompt students to think
  • make the alternative answers plausible
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  • Because “memory is the residue of thought,” and this MCQ requires more thought, it will almost certainly result in more memory (a.k.a. “learning”).
  • to encourage our students to think more.Step 1: show the MCQ — but not the potential answers;Step 2: pause just a bit;Step 3: okay, NOW show the answers.In theory, students just might use that strategic pause to see if they can think of the answer on their own.
  • easy strategies to improve the quality of MCQs
  • Conclusion #1: the wait just a bit strategy worked
  • Conclusion #2: the benefit came from effortful thinking
  • Conclusion #3: the “make the alternative answers plausible” strategy still works.
  • If you want to have your students learn more from multiple-choice questions, build in a short pause between the question and the possible answers.And, encourage your students to think during that pause: what will the right answer be?The more thinking, the more learning.
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Learning Disability Types w/ ADHD: Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia - 0 views

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learning differences

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  • Scott Nancarrow on 11 Apr 24
     
    Extremely clear (if simplified) overview of learning differences, including definitions and details of identification, treatment, interventions, and outcomes.
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Mental health tools that can help middle schoolers get a better perspective | KQED - 0 views

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health strategies

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  • Once you bring your child’s thoughts to the surface, teach them how to talk back to their inner critic.
  • The goal is to help them recognize when they’re thinking in extremes and then challenge the thought.
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Behavior Report Card for Better School Performance with ADHD - 0 views

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adhd school report strategies

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  • Daily report cards are among the most powerful evidence-based tools that educators have to encourage better behavior in students. A strong report card system has a few key elements that make or break its effectiveness.
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Homework Frustration? After-School Help for Kids with ADHD - 0 views

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adhd homework strategies

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  • Scott Nancarrow on 08 Nov 23
     
    Decent overview of common homework support strategies for parents. Good timing in advance of conferences!
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Executive Functioning: A Teacher's Guide to Helping Students with ADHD - 0 views

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executive functioning

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  • It is the responsibility of educators to be aware of executive functioning and to create environments that support all students.
  • Educators should also teach executive functioning language to all classroom learners, not just those who show deficits. When educators assist students with identifying their executive functioning strengths and areas of need, they also teach them how to advocate for their own needs in the classroom and beyond.
  • Executive functioning comprises both the skills that involve thinking, or cognition, and skills that involve doing, or behavior. Here’s a breakdown of these skills and how some might look in the classroom:
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  • Educators should strive to create supportive atmospheres and equip their students with tools to independently express their areas of EF need. Educators can use what we call the “Four Tiers of Support” to set up this system in the classroom and beyond. They include: Teaching common EF language Identifying strengths and areas of need Setting up a classroom to support all students Teaching self-advocacy skills
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Depression in Teens: Barriers to Mental Health Treatment for Adolescents - 0 views

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depression mental health

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  • the most common symptom of depression in teens is not sadness but irritability.
  • Experts urge caregivers to err on the side of caution and to seek professional guidance if they feel any concern about suicidality, or depression in general.
  • A psychologist, psychiatrist, or pediatrician should be able to differentiate typical teen moodiness from depression.
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  • “When a teen uses the word ‘fine,’ that is a major tip-off to inquire further,”
  • How To Help Teens Resistant to Treatment
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Questions to Ask Kids About School: Opening Up with ADHD - 0 views

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adhd questions school

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  • Scott Nancarrow on 15 Mar 23
     
    Great items to share with parents during conferences, if that feels appropriate!
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Good Homework Practices for Students with ADHD or LD - 0 views

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adhd homework

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  • Scott Nancarrow on 08 Feb 23
     
    This one definitely made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. ADDitude definitely has a bad habit of presenting all teachers as the enemy of students with ADHD and all parents as innocent, often passive victims of heartless educators, and this article is a prime example of that. That said, while I disagree with several of these "good homework practices" to be clear, I think it's worth looking over what some are advising out there in some circles.
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