Post by HooDunnit on Aug 13, 2004 18:17:54 GMT -5
When I was homeschooling our ADHD-son, I just took him to work with me and we worked on our lessons as as we got time.
(He just phoned me from the next province to say that he successfully bought 70 dollars worth of liquor today, more proof of his manhood. In our province, his age of 18 years is still too young for that).
At any rate, we had a lot of interruptions in our homeschooling, and would always have to reload and start over again. He was also very hyperactive and had to go for exercise breaks every 20 minutes. Everything distracted him, and me too. So we were ever returning to our tasks. But I viewed it as an advantage rather that a disadvantage. I thought that it was good to do several things at once, rather than concentrate on one thing at a time (like non-ADHD children can do so well). Some recent research has now supported this view.
www.apa.org/releases/retention.html
(He just phoned me from the next province to say that he successfully bought 70 dollars worth of liquor today, more proof of his manhood. In our province, his age of 18 years is still too young for that).
At any rate, we had a lot of interruptions in our homeschooling, and would always have to reload and start over again. He was also very hyperactive and had to go for exercise breaks every 20 minutes. Everything distracted him, and me too. So we were ever returning to our tasks. But I viewed it as an advantage rather that a disadvantage. I thought that it was good to do several things at once, rather than concentrate on one thing at a time (like non-ADHD children can do so well). Some recent research has now supported this view.
www.apa.org/releases/retention.html
