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Undertaking Teaching Assessments with ADHD

Sep 18 2011, 9:57 AM EDT by smsamuels3

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Melissa, a sixteen year old girl was thought to have a classic history of dyslexia, and was refered as part of an onset tecahing assessment in Athens. Melissa was seen by a specialist following a Psychological Assessment. Although such assessments are valuable and provide lots of detail of childhood development, they do not necessarily provide an understanding of the underlying problems and appropiate teaching methods that might be needed.

Melissa: A case study
The report on Melissa included the comments that she did not speak apppropiately and grunted on all kinds intervention; was slightly short clumbsy and was often anxious, struggled to concentrate and had poor personal hygiene and would respond aggressively by biting when frustrated.

Reading and Writing were Difficult Melissa Reading and writing were major problems putting her way behind her classmates, and Melissa found it difficult to explain what she wanted to people. Along with so many other children Melissa had suffered from eczema most of his life and was prone to catching colds and infections.

Melissa Failed Standard Tests
On examination Melissa failed the standard hearing and english proficency tests, and tilted his head to one side, was totally dyspraxic, had marked weakness of the right hand.

Crawling is a very important aspect of development as it promotes learning of cross-cord reflexes essential to the development of postural reflexes. Many children bypass this stage and become bottom shufflers instead.

Dyspraxic
Although Jake initially had a label of being Dyslexic it was clear that he was also Dyspraxic, had signs of ADHD and sometimes was obsessional.

Specialist programmes

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Who will save the girl-child education in war?

Nov 21 2010, 4:37 AM EST by wboto

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I took a spontaneous picture of Alice Acol, a 7 yr old girl, who had become her family's caregiver when she lost her father and then her mother came down with a fatal debilitating disease. In the picture, Alice is struggling to balance her youngest sibiing on her back while stuffing new cotton harvest into her shreded dirty rag that she wore. I soon learnt that on most days Alice would be seen carrying a jag of water on her head from a protected well 1 mile away, collecting firewood and preparing family meals. Alice is among thousands of youth who were born in refugee camps in war-torn northern Uganda and have returned with their relatives to resettle in their ancestral villages. It was not by error that schooling is not listed among the chores of Alice's daily activities. Education, especially girl-child education is not a priority here in Opac Village located 230 miles away in Alebting District.. basic survival is. A generation of youth particularly girls is struggling to resettle in the unfamiliar terrain of village life in northern Uganda, and who have hardly known the love of a two-parent family home, nor been to a classroom where to learn to sign their names and add 1 to 2 = 3 chickens (did I get that right?). At Ochan Self-help Alliance we have developed a program to build small, environmentally friendly and affordable core houses for the most vulnerable households like Acol's and to increase their buying power through improved cash crop production. We think that in 3-4 years' time, such vulnarable families will have access to clean rain water built just around the corner and afford cheap labor that will free Alice from house care so that she begins to attend school on a regular basis, with a reading desk set aside for homework after school. You can also chip in to support our village motto of "kel kuc pacu" (bring peace home) in Opac village at our website www.ochanalliance.org/blog.

William Boto, Ph.D
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