What are some teaching tips for homeschooling children with ADD?

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My 11-year old son has ADD. I will be home-schooling him for the next 4-5 months. Help! Anyone?

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From my experience, people with ADD are good at listening, but not at focusing. It's like they can listen to many things at once, but not too little at once.

Avoid

Setting targets or deadlines
Allocated time slots
Structured lessons

Try

Playing music or tv in the background
Getting a blackboard and some chalk, putting it on the wall, and getting the child to plan their own lessons.
Stickers and maybe a sticker book
Heinemann Mathematics books, because they have amazing illustrations and are fun.
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Buy some flash cards, blank flash cards, multilink cubes, and other physical aids that allow people to manipulate the abstract concept at hand. Also buy several Rummikub boxes, as they have numbers on the tiles.
Dragon Naturally Speaking is a really good text-to-speech program, for if writing stories, persuasive writing and comprehension becomes problematic.
Ask your child lots of questions.
Get your child to teach you something that you know they know.
Buy some walkie talkies that you can use for when you have to leave the room to do something else.
For Science, make sure you buy some educational DVDs to illustrate things.
Buy an empty box and put lots of things in it and get your child to look inside. Then remove something from it when they're not looking, and ask them what got removed.
Put a dvd on they haven't seen before on, and get them to write notes on it, as it plays. After that's done, you can solicit some comprehension questions for writing, once the notes are written.
Get some wooden clappers and a hula hoop. They make a fun sound.
Buy a clock that goes backwards or some other harder to read clock if it's too easy to read like a Binary clock, and put it on the wall. Applied distractions will ensue.
Get whiteboards and coloured markers for you both.
Start each lesson with an Overhead Projector or that giant flipboard of apper, no with whiteboards.
Ask your child's [ex] school what the National Curriculum is, and ask them to give you appropriate worksheets and lesson plans that your child will need.
Buy some handwriting textbooks, and a handwriting excercise book, which will teach your child how to write in cursive, and keep letters on the line with the tails and (high things).
Buy some glitter or scented pens, or maybe not. Berol Handwriting Pens work too.
Having someone else other than you for your child to phone or talk to at any time, if they need help on something.
See if science practicals are possible.
Split English lessons in 5. Worked for me. listening // reading // writing // teaching // computer
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