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Dr Lesley Hughes

Effective Strategies for Reducing the Symptoms of ADHD in Children in Mainstream Education: Lessons from children, parents and teachers . Dr Lesley Hughes. Challenging Behaviour. Sustaining attention Impulsive Disruptive Hyperactive Main stream education / be healthy Equity of learning

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Dr Lesley Hughes

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  1. Effective Strategies for Reducing the Symptoms of ADHD in Children in Mainstream Education: Lessons from children, parents and teachers Dr Lesley Hughes

  2. Challenging Behaviour • Sustaining attention • Impulsive • Disruptive • Hyperactive • Main stream education / be healthy • Equity of learning • Potential for development /well being ECM 2003

  3. Multidimensional Model Parent CHILD Clinician ADHD Teacher

  4. Analysis of Data: ‘Ethnograph’ • Attribute cause of ADHD • Main Concerns • Strategies found to be effective in managing ADHD • Strategies not effective in managing ADHD

  5. Conclusion: Learning Styles • Length of concentration • Breaking tasks down • Instructions at a minimum • Low noise level • Varied mental activities • Clear / single instruction • Scaffold work • Child’s pace • Consistency

  6. Conclusion: Organisation • Clear structure • Clear boundaries • Prepare for change • Coordination between other staff/professions

  7. Conclusion: Environment • Calm environment • Role model – don’t show aggression/impatience • Reassurance • Support • Skills and knowledge to self manage

  8. Parent: “All his teachers, from him starting school, they’ve all said the same. He’ll have views on things, and his reasoning’s good, but trying to actually document this, you know, he just finds it so hard to write it down”.

  9. Child: “My heart starts beating because I might get in trouble for not finishing my work. I know it sounds silly, but I want to be ahead of people, and not finishing an hour after they’re all finished. Like in my English, I’ve only got onto question five, when everyone else has got onto a really high question like 16. I’m not finding it hard, it’s just I’m slow”.

  10. Parent: “He is a total monster, if he was with other children, if he was occupied that way he wasn’t too bad, but if he was bored he was just a nightmare”. Teacher: “Academically he’s doing more work and he’s improving. In September, he wouldn’t put pen to paper and couldn’t be bothered, he will now and he’ll do it willingly, and he wants to work, I mean he’s still below the average, but he’s far better than he was”.

  11. “If we show signs of being weak, when giving instruction we lose control over him”. “You’ve got to be firm, but also, he doesn’t respond to some teachers in the same way that he does with others. He’s fine with certain members of staff”.

  12. “I’m being unprofessional I know, but he knows the sort of weaker members of staff, and a supply teacher, when a supply teacher’s coming in he’ll rise to the occasion beautifully”. “It took him virtually a term to settle down, get to know me, get to know the routine and accept it. Most of the time I try and keep [the need to deploy a supply teacher] to the same day and [try to keep to] the same supply teacher”.

  13. Support for children with ADHD • Greater coordination across and within disciplines • Ensure professional education prepares for integrated working • Ensure organisations accommodate inter-professional learning and working

  14. Thank you for listening Dr Lesley Hughes

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