Assists teachers by helping them to recognize problems in mathematics that are often demonstrated by students with suspected or diagnosed learning disabilities. Also suggests remedial and compensatory techniques to help these teachers cope with such problems. Dyscalculia, hyperactivity, distractability, and perseveration are among the problems…

Among findings from a comparison of 13 preschool hyperactive and control males assessed on receptive-communications tasks that required listening and delayed response were that Ss did not differ in task-related movements or verbalizations, but that hyperactive Ss verbalized impulsively during transitions and tasks requiring response delay. (DB)

Reviews literature that describes the rational and nonrational factors sustaining the myth that stimulant medication is ineffective for hyperactive adolescents. Discusses methodological problems and factors--such as increasing size, misbehavior and misattribution, and perceived relationship to drug abuse--that influence treatment decisions. (JAC)

Practicing teachers, prospective teachers, and professors of education manifested similar attitudes, levels of knowledge, and professional behaviors regarding use of Ritalin, a stimulant drug. (GW)

Successful programs for children with ADHD integrate the following three components: (1) Academic Instruction; (2) Behavioral Interventions; and (3) Classroom Accommodations. This document describes how to integrate a program using these three components and provides suggestions for practices that can help children with ADHD in a classroom…

This paper first offers a rationale for the construction of a protocol for school-based assessment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and then presents a proposed diagnostic procedure. Guidelines were developed in the context of the definitional language regarding ADHD from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders…

This children's novel tells the story of a young girl with attention deficit disorder (ADD) without hyperactivity and her younger brother who has ADD with hyperactivity. Trying to win a school writing contest on the topic of space and stars helps bright, imaginative Paige Bradley realize that fixing her "focusing knob" will compensate for her ADD.…

This brief paper addresses the referral of students for psychoeducational evaluation of problems with attention control and overactivity, and provides a checklist to assist teachers in the determination of possible hypotheses to consider prior to formal referral. The paper and checklist emphasize the variety of possible causes of attentional and…

The need for guidelines for early intervention of children experiencing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD) was identified by the Australian Early Intervention Network (AusEinet). This document attempts to guide appropriate practice in the care of children and adolescents with ADHD. The guidelines are designed to provide information…

This brochure for educators and parents discusses gifted children, creativity, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The overlapping symptoms of ADHD and creativity are identified, which include: inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, difficult temperament, deficient social skills, and academic underachievement. The possibility of…

It is impossible to overstate the importance of effective interventions for addressing two highly prevalent and potentially devastating disorders affecting school-age children--dyslexia and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Both have been found to increase children's risk for underachievement, school failure, delinquency, and…

Discusses the legal and ethical problems associated with the role school officials often play in having drugs prescribed for so-called "hyperactive" children, or in reminding them to take medications that have already been prescribed for them. (WM)

Intended for pediatricians, the article considers aspects of diagnosis and treatment of learning problems including definitions and documentation, the examination, developmental lag, intelligence and psychometry, reversals, serial ordering, cognitive processes in reading, and hyperactivity. (DB)

This article offers three listings of signs and symptoms useful in detection of learning and perceptual deficiencies. The first list presents symptoms of the learning-disabled child; the second gives specific visual perceptual deficits (poor discrimination, figure-ground problems, reversals, etc.); and the third gives auditory perceptual deficits…

Five hyperactive, profoundly retarded children (two male and three female), 7 to 10 years of age who played in single sex groups in a playroom designed to elicit play behavior, were monitored by a heart rate telemetry system to measure biorhythms in the children's activity level. (Author/MC)