In 2016, Dr. Bill Pelham and his team put out a great paper. In it, he compared teaching parents behavioral skills or using medicine for ADHD children. What he found was the order you first use the parenting skills and medicine matters. Parenting benefits children with ADHD when it includes direct behavioral strategies. For example, parents must be more […]
A new study (Pelham, et al., 2016) published in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology reports that when children with ADHD receive behavioral therapy, particularly along with medication therapy, they follow the classroom rules better and receive better ratings from adults. The abstract states “The group beginning with behavioral treatment displayed significantly lower […]
Research tells us that we can improve reading speed and comprehension if we make a game of daily reading. Have your child read a short passage, gaged at her present reading level, and time how long it takes to complete the book. Divide the number of words by the minutes (for example, a second grade usually […]
