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Therapy / Learning |
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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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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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Book "ADD Success Stories"
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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
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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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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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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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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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Book "Quantum Learning" by Bobbi Deporter & Mike Hernacki |
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Book "Super Learning - 2000"
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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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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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