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Schooltime For Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
School can be hard for children with AD/HD. Success in school often means being able to pay attention and control behavior and impulse. These are the areas where children with AD/HD have trouble. Here are tips for teachers for helping kids learn.
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Auditory Processing Tips
By: Renata Bursten, Dragonfly Staff
Games to help kids develop good auditory processing skills.
Auditory processing describes how the brain takes raw sound and interprets it, creating meaning and understanding. Successful auditory processing is crucial for developing language in verbal children who use hearing.
Even before language develops in an infant, auditory processing is developing. Playing pre-language games help speed along the development of this faculty, preparing the solid ground for later language skill development.
Games to try with cognitively young children to develop auditory processing:
1. Name and describe what the child is doing in play. Use simple words, but use them constantly.
2. Read to your child. Point to pictures as they are named. Use a slow and animated voice.
3. Talk to your child all the time. (i.e.. When dressing them, name and touch their body parts.)
4. Look for toys that offer a few kinds of sensory stimulation at the same time so as to reinforce the relationships. For example:
- Wiggly Giggly - Balls that make sound,- Toys that light up and make music ,- Toys that move and make sounds
For cognitively older children:
5: Listen to many kinds of sounds and practice interpret the meaning of the sounds. Look for toys that have pictures and recorded sounds to match. Give the child plenty of time to make sense of the sounds.
6: Play games that require language and understanding. Try "Simon Says", Soundtracks, or try using language cards.
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PLAY Tip
Spring-a-ling! Bringing Two Hands Together
Perfect for children with fine motor delays and mild Cerebral Palsy. Encourage children to use two hands together. Try first simply shaking the toy. (it has a lovely shaky feel) Then by turning the toy, the child will cause the beads to move. Finally, have the child hold the Spring-a-ling with one hand, and slide the beads with the fingers of the other hand. Take it on long car rides, or for waiting rooms!