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All resources in alphabetical
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Appeton
Multivitamin |
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Some children
have ADD/ADHD-like symptoms when they do not have the proper
nutrition or their body is unable to absorb the necessary nutrients
which others easily absorb. The Appeton multivitamin with Lysine
can help. Lysine is for improving appetite. |
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About S$13.00
per bottle of 70 tablets tablets, available in most pharmacy,
e.g. in SGH
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Books |
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These
provides interesting and useful tips and information on handling
ADD children |
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List of suggested books: |
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ADD Success
Stories |
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How to Talk
So Kids Will Listen |
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Myth of
the ADD Child: 50 Ways to Improve your Child's Behavior |
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Quantum
Learning |
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Beyond ADD |
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Beyond Ritalin |
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How To Maximise
Your Child's Potential |
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Super Learning
- 2000
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The
Complete ADD ADHD Bookstore is at ADD411.com,
with 100 recommended books for parents, teachers, and professionals.
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Coffee |
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A weaker
stimulant than Ritalin, effective only for children with milder
conditions of ADD/ADHD |
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What To Do: |
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Any home
/ coffee-shop
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Computer |
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Children
with ADD can handle the computer quite well and enjoys using
the computer (partly because they have poor hand-writing and
computer can perform spelling checks). |
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Source: |
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Book "Myth
of the ADD Child"
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Drama
& Speech Training |
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ADD children
enjoys Speech & Drama lessons and can build their self-confidence
through such training |
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What To Do: |
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Schools
and other education centres conduct such training on a regular
basis
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Effalex |
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A nutritional
supplements for hand/eye co-ordination and brain development.
Some parents claimed it work for their children (in reducing
the ADD/ADHD related mis-behavior) |
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Cost: |
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about S$0.30-S$0.40
cents per tablet, need 2-3 tablets a day |
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What To Do: |
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Most pharmancies
have this |
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A supplier
at Tanjong Pagar Plaza (near Amara Hotel & Tanjong Pagar MRT)
which sell this at about 15% lower price (Medic Drug Store: Tel:2244-842)
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Family
Therapy |
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This is
especially if the husband and wife has different views in bringing
up the ADD child. |
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What To Do: |
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Family Service
Units established by the government provide counselling services
(see addresses and contact numbers of various Family Service Centres
at www.mcds.gov.sg)
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Hunters
& Farmers Theory |
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Farmers
vs Hunters theory: ADD children are like children in hunting
tribes. Being a hunter has its own advantages like better survival
skills in the wild, initiating changes, etc |
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Source: |
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Book "ADD
Success Stories"
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Interests:
Find Out What Interests Your Child |
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The ADD
child can pay attention to areas that he is very interested
in. |
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Source: |
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Book "Myth
of the ADD Child: 50 Ways to Improve your Child's Behaviour" by
Thomas Armstrong
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Kinesthetic
Learning Style |
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3 key
learning styles are "visual learners", "listeners" and "Kinesthetic
learners". ADD children are usually kinesthetic learners meaning
that they need to learning through doing and touching. The Montessorri
methods focus teaching children while using all the 5 senses:
seeing, listening, smelling, touching and thinking and is appropriate
for any types of learners and is especially useful for children
with learning disability. |
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Source: |
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Book "Maximise
Your Child's Potential" |
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To enhance
listening skills of ADD & Kinesthetic children: |
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Allow child
to place phone calls to relatives & friends |
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Drama class,
religious instructions |
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You &
child take turns to add parts of a story |
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Buy Fisher-Price
wireless microphone with speakers |
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Kinesthetic
children likes/enjoys the following activities: |
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Swimming,
horse-riding, dance, martial art, cycling |
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Joining
as scout or brownies |
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Camping
/ sleeping on hammock |
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Other activities
to better develop kinesthetic children include: |
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Playing
checkers, table tennis, badminton |
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Purchasing
book with video session to enhance reading skill
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Music |
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Background
music may help the ADD child to pay better attention to what
he/she is doing. Baroque music like Bach, Handel, Pachelbel
& Vivaldi are good as the special beats and patterns sychronised
with with the resting heart rate (about 60 beats per minute).
Music occupies the right brain so that the left brain can focus
on details. |
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Sources: |
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Book "Myth
of the ADD Child" |
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Book "Quantumn
Learning" |
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What To Do: |
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Use Background
Music to Clam and Focus |
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Purchase
Baroque music like Bach, Handel, Pachelbel, Vivaldi
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Organised:
Teach Your Child How To Be Organised |
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ADD/ADHD
children and adults needs organisational skills to overcome
their problems (e.g. having fixed places for various items,
file for pending homework and file for completed homework, etc.) |
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Sources: |
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SPARK TIP:
Organizing School Bag For Easy Access |
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Book "Myth
of the ADD Child: 50 Ways to Improve your Child's Behavior" |
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Book "ADD
Success Stories"
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Parents:
Take Care of Yourself |
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You will
need to take good care of yourself so that you can properly
guide the ADD child. You can't control your child when you yourself
are out of control. |
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Sources: |
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Book "Beyond
ADD" |
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Book "Myth
of the ADD Child"
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Parent Workshops on Behaviour Management for ADHD Children |
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The Child
Guidance Clinic at the Institute Of Health (IOH) next to SGH
organise this on a regular basis. |
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What To Do: |
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Attend the workshops run by SPARK. Held half-yearly (June and November) at the Child Guidance Clinic. Look out for event notifications posted on this site.
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Physical
Exercises |
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Physical
exercises helps produce some chemicals that helps in paying
attention for about 2 hours. One ADD adult claims he got his
PHD through sheer effort: three 1-hour exercises (3 hours of
exercises) every day.Brain Gym exercises also helps to improve
concentration (E&P Learning Centre conducts some classes
for younger children on this, but do not focus much on Brain
Gym exercises.) |
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What To Do: |
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Swimming,
jogging are good exercises |
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Can also
consider Tai-chi, martial art or other physical training if the
child is interested |
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Wheel-barrow
exercise (holding the child's knee/leg while he tries to walk
with his hand while the body is horizontal) is also useful in
improving your child's hand-writing. |
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Many ADD
children grip their pencil too tightly. Improvement of the gross
motor skills (also wheel-barrow exercise) is a starting point
for improve fine motor skills (e.g. writing)
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Practical
Tips |
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The "Tips/Stories"
section of our website is a good source of informations shared
by parents and professionals providing practical tips, articles
and stories. |
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Source: |
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SPARK
Tips/Stories |
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Quantum
Learning |
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Tips in
this books also help ADD children |
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Sources: |
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Book "Quantum
Learning" by Bobbi Deporter & Mike Hernacki |
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Book "Super
Learning - 2000"
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Ritalin |
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Helps
ADD/ADHD children pay more attention in school; Is actually
a stimulant. Possible side-effect include lost of weight, re-bound
effect making child behave more badly. |
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Cost: |
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about S$0.90
per tablet, half tablet last 3-6 hours for children of age 7-10
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What To Do: |
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Get doctor
in private clinic or polyclinic to refer specialist for ADD/ADHD
diagnosis & treatment |
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Specialist
will dispense drug only after confirming ADD/ADHD condition (may
take a few months) |
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Ritalin
is a controlled drug and must be prescribed by the specialist
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Sleep:
help your child get adequate sleep |
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Some children
exhibit ADD/ADHD-like symptoms when they can't sleep well or
get sufficient sleep. |
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What To Do: |
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Tone down
all physical activities 30-60 minutes before sleep (e.g. read/tell
a story) |
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Sleep early
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Social
Training classes |
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The Child
Guidance Clinic at the Institute Of Health (IOH) next to SGH
organise this on a regular basis |
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What To Do: |
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All referrals to the clinic's social skills group need to come from the clinic's doctors or therapists. Contact the Child Guidance Clinic at the Health Promotion Board Building, 3 Second Hospital Ave #03-01, Singapore 168937. Tel: 6435-3878/9
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TV
and Video Games |
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Excessive
TV and video games may make the attention problem worse. |
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Source: |
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Book "Myth
of the ADD Child: 50 Ways to Improve your Child's Behavior" by
Thomas Armstrong |
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What To Do: |
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Limit TV
and Video Games to 1 hour per day.
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Visual
Therapy |
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This is
for children with problems co-ordinating their eye movements
and this leads to reading problems. Also trains a child to scan
an area systematically (e.g. from left to right and top to bottom).
ADD children tends to scan an image randomly in all directions. |
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More available
in Australia rather than S'pore according to a occupational therapist
in KK hospital
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Websites |
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These
provide interesting and useful tips and information on handling
ADD children. |
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List of websites: |
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www.amazon.com
- for buying books |
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www.lib.gov.sg
- for browsing books in the national library |
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www.chadd.org-
Organisation for children & adult with ADD |
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www.add.org
- National ADD Association |
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www.addgroup.org
- The ADD Action Group |
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www.adult-add.org-
Student Alliance on ADD |
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http://groups.yahoo.com/,
http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups
- Groups |
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ADHD_Singapore@yahoogroups.com,
S-Dyspraxia@yahoogroups.com)
- Mailing groups |
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www.hanen.org-
assist in speech development |
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www.fathers.com.sg-
How to be a better father to your children |
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www.yahoo.com
- Search for informaiton on ADD |
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www.mcds.gov.sg
- Ministry of Community Development - Address and Phone numbers
for Family Service Centres |
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ADD411.com - the Complete ADD ADHD Bookstore, with 100 recommended books for parents, teachers, and professionals. |
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VAXA International - see the greatest collection of breakthrough health products. |
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