Testing

1. Welcome!
ADHD and Communication
Beth Powell
3/19/2013

2. Overview
• Impact on Language
• At Home Support
• Social Situations
• Connection to Reading Comprehension

3. Impact on Language
• Slower to pick up letter sounds
• Verbal pauses and fillers
• Off-Topic, Distracted
– Make unexpected connections
• Errors in grammar
• Social Pragmatics
Mark Bertin, M.D., “That’s ADHD Again?”

4. Strategies At Home
• Giving Directions
• Vocab Acquisition
• Sequencing Cards
• Structured Story Telling
• Resources

5. Giving Directions
• Get Attention First
• Give Concise Directions
• If time, have them repeat back
• Follow-up

6. Sequencing Cards
• Tell a story in
order
• Retell events or
story in order
• Write an organized
story

7. Vocabulary Acquisition
• Show me
• Describe it
• Use it
• Define it
• Retrieve it
• Use it

8. Structured Story Telling
• Talkative
– Let them speak naturally
– Take brief notes of everything
– Organize
– Retell in expected order
• Not – Talkative
– Ask lots of questions
– Develop a frame work of go-to questions
– Repeat story as long as it takes

9. Structured Story Telling

10. Resources
• CHAAD
• Hamaguchi Apps
• Lakeshore Learning
• Internet for Imagery

11. Social Situations
• Give a Scenario
– Not about your child
• What advice would you give?
• Whacky, expected, cold, caring

12. Reading Comprehension
• S

13. Summary
• ADHD has a significant impact on
language
• Practice language in non-stressful
situations
• Meet your child where their skills are at