All About ADHD : Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

[CatMoon]

Snow24:

Hi adhd.dad


Thanks for sharing.

My son was not able to base on the 4 pictures provided to write out a full page composition.He usually write 4-5 detected then he stopped there. He has no ideas and how to elaborate further.

Adhd child has deficit in organising and sequencing of logical flow. So not sure how to help him.

Hi Snow24,
I understand how you feel. My girl was also not able to write picture compositions in primary school. For some ADHD kids, their attention to details are not good, therefore their interpretation of the pictures may not be the same or accurate.

With this new paper format, one theme and 3 sequential pictures will be given. My humble suggestion would be to train him at home using highlighters to highlight a key action in each picture that he should be paying attention to. This will help draw his attention to what the picture is trying to tell him.

I am guessing that his \"lack of ideas\" is because he is not interpreting the pictures correctly and therefore, cannot link the other 2 pictures with the 1st one.

Perhaps a good idea is to go through the compositions verbally with him first. Don't write yet on the first try.
E.g. 2 lessons on 1 compo. 1st lesson on going through verbally (identify key actions and discuss with him the sequence). 2nd lesson to refresh him of the framework of the story and get him to write it down.

Hope this suggestion helps.

[swortionery]

CatMoon:

Snow24:

Hi adhd.dad


Thanks for sharing.

My son was not able to base on the 4 pictures provided to write out a full page composition.He usually write 4-5 detected then he stopped there. He has no ideas and how to elaborate further.

Adhd child has deficit in organising and sequencing of logical flow. So not sure how to help him.

Hi Snow24,
I understand how you feel. My girl was also not able to write picture compositions in primary school. For some ADHD kids, their attention to details are not good, therefore their interpretation of the pictures may not be the same or accurate.

With this new paper format, one theme and 3 sequential pictures will be given. My humble suggestion would be to train him at home using highlighters to highlight a key action in each picture that he should be paying attention to. This will help draw his attention to what the picture is trying to tell him.

I am guessing that his \"lack of ideas\" is because he is not interpreting the pictures correctly and therefore, cannot link the other 2 pictures with the 1st one.

Perhaps a good idea is to go through the compositions verbally with him first. Don't write yet on the first try.
E.g. 2 lessons on 1 compo. 1st lesson on going through verbally (identify key actions and discuss with him the sequence). 2nd lesson to refresh him of the framework of the story and get him to write it down.

Hope this suggestion helps.

Good suggestion. Verbal discourse helps the child to process the logic and ideas behind the narrative first, without the effort of actual writing. This may help isolate and rectify the difficulty that they're facing in the earlier stages. To add on to what CatMoon said, I would also advise supplementing the above with other forms of conversational activities, accompanied by prompts -- nothing complex, just simple questions like \"What do you think the boy is doing?\" Keep it to about 20 minutes, then slowly scale upwards by getting your kid to pen his words down.

Hope this helps. At the moment I'm running an educational therapy programme called Swords & Stationery, which uses games to teach students aged 10 to 17. The programme is specifically catered to kids with Dyslexia, ADHD, ASD, ODD, and other potential co-morbidities, and is versatile enough to accommodate varying degrees of academic strengths and weaknesses, If you are keen on finding out more about it, don't hesitate to contact me or visit our website:
http://swordsandstationery.com

[Snow24]

Hi


How is ADHD diagnosed?

Is taking ADHD medicine the only way to help child to focus better.

[Snow24]

Hi


How is ADHD diagnosed?

Is taking ADHD medicine the only way to help child to focus better.

[swortionery]

Snow24:

Hi


How is ADHD diagnosed?

Is taking ADHD medicine the only way to help child to focus better.

You can send your child for a psych assessment at KKH or IMH to get a professional opinion

[Snow24]

Hi


ADHD is assessed by psychologist?

Do doctor just based on the ADHD questionnaire to diagnose as ADHD?

[swortionery]

Snow24:

Hi


ADHD is assessed by psychologist?

Do doctor just based on the ADHD questionnaire to diagnose as ADHD?

Yes to the first question. For the second, it's typically not a questionnaire, but a battery of psychometric tests done to assess the child's mental and behavioural traits.

[Snow24]

Hi


Anyone can share the strategies you used, at home to manage your adhd child or how to help him to be organise, do his homework etc

[xueyan]

Hi


I suspect that my 9 yo boy may have ADD. These are the symptoms that make me draw this possibility :

- For both Chinese and English comprehension, he doesn’t read the passage properly to answer the questions. All the while he doesn’t like to read. At the rare times when he read, he doesn’t like to read mystery books. I think it is because he doesn’t like to think about the mystery. Anything that he feels difficult, he will give up.

- His Maths is no good. For problem sums, he gives up easily.

- He is very careless in all his work. Be it copy from the helping words, he can copy wrongly.

- He is absent minded. He loses a lot of water bottles in school. This year he lost 3 already.

- His handwriting is awful

However, I did not hear from his piano teacher that he has learning difficulties. He is very interested in playing badminton and will keep bugging us to play with him to practice his strokes.

Any advise or comment is appreciated

[swortionery]

xueyan:

Hi


I suspect that my 9 yo boy may have ADD. These are the symptoms that make me draw this possibility :

- For both Chinese and English comprehension, he doesn't read the passage properly to answer the questions. All the while he doesn't like to read. At the rare times when he read, he doesn't like to read mystery books. I think it is because he doesn't like to think about the mystery. Anything that he feels difficult, he will give up.

- His Maths is no good. For problem sums, he gives up easily.

- He is very careless in all his work. Be it copy from the helping words, he can copy wrongly.

- He is absent minded. He loses a lot of water bottles in school. This year he lost 3 already.

- His handwriting is awful

However, I did not hear from his piano teacher that he has learning difficulties. He is very interested in playing badminton and will keep bugging us to play with him to practice his strokes.

Any advise or comment is appreciated

My advice is to get a psych assessment done for him at IMH or KKH, then work on it from there. Educational therapy or behavioural therapy (esp. Applied Behaviour Analysis programmes) works well in such cases.

Full disclosure: I'm currently running http://swordsandstationery.com, an educational therapy programme that places emphasis on behavioural management, so do let me know if you're keen on such a thing.