A school psychologist briefly describes the use of academic coaching with gifted students who are underperforming possibly because of a disability such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Coaches are urged to first, review the student's assessment data; second, determine the student's ability to benefit from coaching; third, determine…

This report presents school-based interventions that teachers can employ in regular classrooms to educate students with attention deficit disorders (ADD). The report attempts to compensate for the limitations in the ADD research literature by extrapolating from research on other difficult-to-teach students to identify and describe academic and…