Reading comprehension | ADHD Information

Do people with add inattentive find that when they take standardized tests where it tests your reading comprehension that you always finish last or dont finish in time because you need to keep re reading everything? Absolutely!!!]AND...unfortunately, it's not just the inattentive AD/HDers burdened with this, either. Trust me!

Not me actually!  I have inattentive ADHD - but I've always had a gift of being able to see a printed page like a photograph.  I can sift out details after seeing it a short time.  Now if I want to retain it for a while I need to go over it.  I used to read large novels - but my ADHD would not let me put one down so it was always read in one sitting which could take a whole night to do.

The only tests I've ever had trouble with is 3D object spacialization and pattern tests.  You know - in IQ tests they have 3 shapes - and you must figure out which comes next?  I never get those - the pattern is lost to me and I don't comprehend the way to do them right.   Lose IQ points every time.

 

Yes, I think since they most likely eye track slower it slows the ability down to remember stuff cause they need to read more. No problems with reading (except for a problem with reading when I should be doing something else).   OMG,  My mind wanders entirely too much to comprehend what I'm reading.  One word in a paragraph can set me off into another world and have me daydreaming about whatever.   Tracking?  Lose my place constantly w/o the aide of some type of little "tracking device"  They sell bookmarks in teacher stores that have a colored plastic strip in the middle.  Makes it easier to track and stay on task when ya gotta. glen, oh how i hate those 3d shapes!!!
give me slabs of comprehension anyday!!!

problem with comprehension and many ppl with adhd is that their working processing memory is low and gets jammed pretty quick.. increase the memory and the comprehension will improve...

the zillion dollar question is 'how do you increase this memory??' 
It gets really crazy in our home when I try to help my teenage son with any kind of reading homework. We both don't get very far since we are both ADHD and it is the end of the day. The other family members actually find it amusing...and we all kind of laugh and then someone else steps in the help. Gotta love it all!

i looove the shapes questions. they're fun for me. in fact, that's one of the reasons i put things together for a living. i'm a natural for shapes and spaces..

i do well on all kinds of testing. reading comprehension included.

where i suffer with reading comprehension is in the real world. i'm either in reading mode or not.

when i'm not, which is most of the time, i have to reread every 4 or 5 sentences. my brain reads something, goes off on it's own little tangent, while i continue trying to read the text.

i'm reading, taking in the meaning of the text, but my attention is elsewhere. it's like 'sorry. could you repeat that? my mind was wandering.'

i read another paragraph or two, and again! 'sorry, i didn't quite catch that. could i see that again?'

when in reading mode,i can sit and devour huge sections of text.

i watch 'west wing', and always think i could be expert and informed like those people. there is nothing in those piles of pages they sift through daily i couldn't process. i can absorb and understand huge amounts of info.

i just can't depend on myself to do it at will. if it has to be read and digested now, chances are my brain won't be up to it. if it can be done at my brain's convenience, that's a different stoty.

i meant'story',not 'stoty'.

that's why i try to reread my posts 3 or 4 times before hitting the post button.

Glen I'm the exact same way!  I have no idea how anyone figures these things out.  I do so well on tests until I get those things -- I always bomb them.

Agh - NO!!!

They never have them that easy!! It's always like where there's three shapes in a box.  They move the shapes around and change the colors.  Then you have to figure out the next in the sequence - but I can sit on the next one for an hour and never "get" it!  I am ok with normal sequencial questions on IQ tests - like where they do the numbers - 1,3,9,27, - I'd know it's multiplying by 3.  But the shapes which I'm told should be the same I just can't relate.

Yet - when I see a formula for dimensional physics - or an algebraic function I can visualize and even graph them sometimes.  So I think it's in my visual center.  I can't do blueprints either - taking real-world shapes and making them 2D is very hard for me.  I never went into carpentry full-time because of that.

When I was younger, I read alot, always had a book in hand -- now I find I'm always distracted and have no idea what I read, especially if its something I don't want to read (school stuff).   Country girl vision lenses and therapy might help you. Another name is eye training. It teaches the eyes to be able to move in a way you need no tracking help device is the goal.  

Glen your problem is sequential processing. Look at each one at a time and so on. This is how it goes.

Ex. a square, atriangle, a circle, answer is just repeat what they have here.