2. Introduction
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is
a chronic condition that affects millions of children
and often persists into adulthood. ADHD include
problems, such as difficulty sustaining attention,
hyperactivity and impulsive behavior. Children with
ADHD also may struggle with low self-esteem,
troubled relationships and poor performance in
school.
3. Types of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder
These classifications are based on the classic children's stories of Winnie the Pooh and his friends in
the Hundred Acre Wood.
Winnie the Pooh Type - Inattentive, distractible, disorganized. He's nice, but
lives in a cloud.
Tigger Type- Inattentive, impulsive, hyperactive, restless, bouncy.
Eeyore Type - Inattentive, with chronic low-grade depression.
Piglet Type - Trouble shifting attention, excessive worry, easily startled.
Rabbit Type - Trouble shifting attention, inflexible, argumentative.
Troubled Type ADHD - Irritable, aggressive, impulsive, defiant,
disobedient. Learning proble.
5. TECHNOLOGY AND ADHD
Technology can have a profound positive
impact on Children suffering from ADHD.
Assertive technology has been designed to
improve learning and productivity.
6. Assistive Technology (AT)
CAN BE USED TO :
Help children with reading, writing and
mathematics.
Learn ways to change their behavior.
Persons with ADHD can use this tool to help them
at home and in schools.
7. Computers
One of the excellent tolls used for teaching
children with ADHD. Computers along with
projectors screens makes instruction more
visual and allows each child to actively
participate.
9. How can I as a teacher successfully Instruct
children with ADHD
Evaluation of
strengths and
Integration of weaknesses
IEP in the
classroom
Select
appropriate
instructional
practices
10. Board Marker
Is a programmed software which includes
pictures at help ADHD students to communicate
different choices (wants and needs) in the
classroom.
12. Practical ways on how teacher can utilize the Big-Mac Switch for
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Students
The big mac switch for ADHD is record his/her voice on the device to communicate
with students. The teacher can use it for language skills in the classroom and also
increasing their self-esteem and self-efficacy knowing they can communicate whilst
correctly answering a question. It makes communicating relatively easy for the user
and recording simple for the teacher or care giver.
13. The Big Mac-Switch for Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder
The Big-Mac Switch technology device is an ‘augmentative/alternative Communication’
that assists students in physical, behavioral problems and ‘access/environmental control.
The recording is then played when the students presses the large ‘Big MAC’ button. This
allows students to verbally communicate, where they other-wise wouldn’t and it is
highly beneficial for emerging communicators.
14. Intellitool Classroom Suite
IntelliTool Classroom Suite is a software platform for delivering K-
8 curriculum aligned to content standards. It provide schools with a
multisensory environment for differentiated instruction by enabling
educators to tailor specific instructional activities to the individual
learning needs of students.
15. Practical ways on how teacher can utilize Intellitool
Classroom Suite for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder Students
IntelliTool classroom suit help educators boost achievement in math, language arts,
social studies, and science with ADHD students. Teachers can track students' activity
responses and quiz answers, and then record, report, and print student records for
student assessment. Program files as well as student records and preferences can be
stored on a network server.
It tracks each student's performance in his or her own private portfolio, records
student responses, compares them to expected answers, and makes their scoring
results available in both detailed and summary reports.
16. Fusion Portable Note Takers
The Fusion Note takers with built-in text to speech
providing auditory feedback to the students. The
features include word prediction, keyboarding tuition
and spell checker. The Fusion has a full-size keyboard
and LCD display screen.
17. Practical ways on how teacher can utilize Fusion Portable
Note taker for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Students
Teachers may use this for the attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder student and allow them to type instead of endure the
difficult task of writing.
Teachers use this helps students with spelling of words and
auditory devices to give feedback pupils in the class.
18. Text Reading System
The text reading systems allow text on screen (document,
Web page or e-mail) to be read aloud through a computer's
sound card. The computer can then read the words back using
a speech synthesizer and simultaneously present the words on
screen .
19. Practical ways on how teacher can utilize Text
Reading System for Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder Students
Teachers can use the text reading systems for ADHD children who
cannot read but are good listeners in the classroom. The teacher can
use it to teach word recognition, sentence structure and paragraph
using contrasting colours to identify topics sentence. They can use
the text reading systems to help students edit his or her writing.
Hearing the text may help the student catch writing errors such as
problems with grammar, or words that have been left out, errors they
might not have noticed by visually reading it.
20. Conclusion: Using Technologies in the
Classroom for Helping Students with Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Teachers using these technologies in the classroom to help Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder students will provide remedial or
compensatory support for independent learning in the education systems
for these pupils.
Some schools do not have the resources and funds for purchasing learning
materials or tools for teaching special need students in the regular school
setting. Some teachers having difficulty teaching these students because
limited resources and not their special field.
21. References
Assistive Technology and Learning Disabilities. Retrieved from
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Intellitools Classroom Suite. Retrieved from http://www.synapse
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Web Md. Retrieved from http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/guide/types-of-adhd
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