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<blockquote data-quote="Wishing" data-source="post: 272788" data-attributes="member: 1782"><p>Hi my child was diagnosed with adhd. He was very strong willed and had to have his way when he was young. You have some additional challenges that I didn't have 1.)toilet training late. Mine was disruptive occasionally.</p><p></p><p>I did have mine evaluated by a phd and she recommended medication which took me awhile to get onto and we did and it took frequent re-evaluations almost every 3 months of different medications.</p><p> After you get your re-evaluation by a multidisclinary team and they may have a special program for her. This is what I found helped me the most.</p><p></p><p>I read a bunch of books on adhd but the one that helped me the most was Dr.Russell Barkley's therapist manual I think it was for adhd It was a skinny manual but I adapted his ideas to work with my son. I made a chart of behaviors I wanted him to do and some things he was already doing but gave him credit for. I had things like says: Hi to a friend,washes hands after bathroom, brushes teeth,says good morning to teacher and after each behavior he got several points and at the end of the week if he made a certain number of points there would be a reward. I made it so it was easy to get rewarded. You could reward her daily. In my son's case he would feel so bad</p><p>if I had minus points I decided to have no negative behaviors on my chart. I wanted to encourage positive behaviors. Before the behavior chart was to start however meaning several weeks dr. Barkley felt it was important to have fun time with mon which he discusses. this time was a set time every day and playing a game that my child loved and during the game you note positive behaviors and say great going I like the way you did that etc. You practice ignoring bad behavior. I found this very effective. After two weeks of this then I started the behavior chart.</p><p>I want to emphasize Dr. Barkley had several charts in the manual and I did not use them exactly but adapted them to my child.</p><p>In our school district we have school of choice and teacher of choice as we have two kindergarten teachers and two in every grade level. I talked to other parents and this was CRITICAL TO MY SON's school day. I found one teacher for 1st grade who I learned a lot from. She put my son in between two quiet A students and he modeled them. They were two of the lowest key students in the class and were always on target in their work and their behavior. In 4th grade the teacher I chose was so good that all of us moms cried at the back of the classroom on the last day bc we knew we would never have such a positive year again. I also went to each classroom and observed the teachers to decide which one I chose for my son. Even the principal told me I made good choices after the bomber with the 2nd semester kindergarten teAcherwe had. Some teachers are heavenly and their approaches are more conducive to lowering the anxiety level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wishing, post: 272788, member: 1782"] Hi my child was diagnosed with adhd. He was very strong willed and had to have his way when he was young. You have some additional challenges that I didn't have 1.)toilet training late. Mine was disruptive occasionally. I did have mine evaluated by a phd and she recommended medication which took me awhile to get onto and we did and it took frequent re-evaluations almost every 3 months of different medications. After you get your re-evaluation by a multidisclinary team and they may have a special program for her. This is what I found helped me the most. I read a bunch of books on adhd but the one that helped me the most was Dr.Russell Barkley's therapist manual I think it was for adhd It was a skinny manual but I adapted his ideas to work with my son. I made a chart of behaviors I wanted him to do and some things he was already doing but gave him credit for. I had things like says: Hi to a friend,washes hands after bathroom, brushes teeth,says good morning to teacher and after each behavior he got several points and at the end of the week if he made a certain number of points there would be a reward. I made it so it was easy to get rewarded. You could reward her daily. In my son's case he would feel so bad if I had minus points I decided to have no negative behaviors on my chart. I wanted to encourage positive behaviors. Before the behavior chart was to start however meaning several weeks dr. Barkley felt it was important to have fun time with mon which he discusses. this time was a set time every day and playing a game that my child loved and during the game you note positive behaviors and say great going I like the way you did that etc. You practice ignoring bad behavior. I found this very effective. After two weeks of this then I started the behavior chart. I want to emphasize Dr. Barkley had several charts in the manual and I did not use them exactly but adapted them to my child. In our school district we have school of choice and teacher of choice as we have two kindergarten teachers and two in every grade level. I talked to other parents and this was CRITICAL TO MY SON's school day. I found one teacher for 1st grade who I learned a lot from. She put my son in between two quiet A students and he modeled them. They were two of the lowest key students in the class and were always on target in their work and their behavior. In 4th grade the teacher I chose was so good that all of us moms cried at the back of the classroom on the last day bc we knew we would never have such a positive year again. I also went to each classroom and observed the teachers to decide which one I chose for my son. Even the principal told me I made good choices after the bomber with the 2nd semester kindergarten teAcherwe had. Some teachers are heavenly and their approaches are more conducive to lowering the anxiety level. [/QUOTE]
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