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Oh geez, I find that it helps to stay focused if I sound the letters out in my
mind. Sometimes, with boring textbooks though, I really have to read it
out loud. Of course, it's always better with a book that I'm actually
interested in. [QUOTE=CrazyChick78]I  have the same problem, I have GREAT ideas in my head, heck I even talk to myself about my great ideas, but when I go to write them down on paper I go blank, like somewhere it gets lost from the brain to the paper. When I was a child this baffled my teachers because I did great anwsering questions out loud, always had my hand up, but did horribly on homework or working by myself.  I did do alot better if I spoke what I was doing(still do)..have your child say 1+1+2 and have him say 2 as he is writing it.  Also there are visual learning programs as well. [/QUOTE]

Hey CC, that's how I learned to pass the test in chemistry. pH is the negative log of the hydrogen ion concentration. Can't tell ya what that means, but that's what it is!

Here's another one I use all the time: i before e except after c or when in neighbor or weigh. They don't tell you about weird, though. A spell checker had to tell me about that one. How wierd.

Here's another one I use:

A B C D E F G
H I J K L M N O P
Q R S T U V
W X Y & Z!

Works great, except in spanish, or when you're thumbing through the phone book backwards.
Here's another:

30 days hath september, april, june and november. All the rest have 31, except february, b/c it's wierd.

Here's another:

Now I lay me down to sleep,
With a bag of p-nuts at my feet.
If I should die before I wake,
You'll know I died with a belly ache.

I think it's easier to learn everything in psalms, except 118.

[QUOTE=Davidornado]Here's another:

30 days hath september, april, june and november. All the rest have 31, except february, b/c it's wierd.

Here's another:

Now I lay me down to sleep,
With a bag of p-nuts at my feet.
If I should die before I wake,
You'll know I died with a belly ache.

I think it's easier to learn everything in psalms, except 118.
[/QUOTE]

too funny mr.  wish i could be a poet......will you teach me?  PLEASE

ivanhoe, my dd has the same problem.. comprehension and expression are her biggest weaknesses.. she is being assessed on them by a speech pathologist..

sometimes she doesn't read the whole text, other times she reads and hasn't even absorbed any of it.. i'm not sure of whether the problem is comprehension or the ability to sit, read, focus and reflect.. adhd kids can be impulsive and reflection is difficult..

When my daughter was in elementary school, the only way she could learn was verbally, using rhythm to repeat things.  She could look me in the eyes, spell a spelling word ten times, then look down at her paper and be at a loss - she couldn't have written the word to save herself. Your best weapons are repetition and a sense of humor!  It's so hard to keep a long term perspective when you are in the trenches.  Just don't give up.I have to explain what it all means for him to get anything. Even when focused he doesn't get it either.

I STILL have problems with comprehension...

If I'm reading silently, I cant do it. It helps me if I read to myself outloud, but then if I'm in public, I look like a total loon!

I'm in college right now and found that if I write it down, I don't get all the info..my mind is going faster than my pen can keep up!  I tell people all the time thank goodness for computers! I can almost type as fast as I think! LOL

Sherry

Welcome!  You'll find that MOST of the people here are quite kind!

Your son is among the normal ADHD'ers.  It's not the comprehension but focus that's giving him the problem.  Instructions - long ones especially make us go batty and our minds tend to wander, or even go completely against whatever we're asked to do.  It takes meds and hard work sometimes to get to the focus point.  Pre meds I could only follow instructions with hard work and writing down the longer ones.  Had to go back and double and sometimes triple check details too.  Now - I can follow fairly long ones - and the ones that give me trouble I just have to make extra effort to listen and absorb the details.  Hard either way.

It will come as long as you and your child keep getting qualified help in both meds and training so that the skills other's take for granted can be obtained.

Good luck to you !

 

 

- Glen

I  have the same problem, I have GREAT ideas in my head, heck I even talk to myself about my great ideas, but when I go to write them down on paper I go blank, like somewhere it gets lost from the brain to the paper. When I was a child this baffled my teachers because I did great anwsering questions out loud, always had my hand up, but did horribly on homework or working by myself.  I did do alot better if I spoke what I was doing(still do)..have your child say 1+1+2 and have him say 2 as he is writing it.  Also there are visual learning programs as well. How is this with your adhd child? This is the biggest issue for our son.The thing I can't get is how he can show me this number plus this number but not get it on paper. I get this is the written expressive issue here.I tell him what ever you think you write down.Any other ideas?   Thanks a lot this is the same with our son. I see there are some kind people here.

Wow, I remember those days. Take it step by step. Little kids do not have the self discipline to force themselves to follow through. He knows the answer to the problem, but he is unable to grasp the concept that it's not enough just to know. It seemed like drudgery just to get that far, can that be enough please? No it can't.

I could NOT do my homework when I was in 1st through 4th grade. I would literally sit at the dinner table with 15 minutes of homework in front of me from the time I got home from school until past my bedtime. The only way I could do it is if someone sat with me and talked me through each problem. I still did the brain work, but putting the pencil to the paper required *specific* coaching.

PARENT: What's the answer?

ME: 3

PARENT: Write, under the line, the number 3.

For me, yes it was that bad.