How to Teach an ADHD Child to Spell
To help children with ADHD who are poor spellers, the following techniques have been found to be helpful.
- Tackle your school's word list (Most schools have a list of spelling words that kids have to know by the end of the year. This is especially true for children in the lower grades (k-3)). Go through the list and figure out which words your child knows. Then make out flash cards with all of the words on them. Make a deal with your child that for every word she learns, he or she earns a reward.
- Give your child an incentive to read. Turn on the TV and stick a DVD in. For every five minutes of a movie she watches, she has to read one page in a book. You just pause the movie every five minutes and have your child read a page. [Read more →]
