This informative video provides an overview of intervention approaches that can be used to help students with ADHD enhance their school performance while keeping the classroom functioning smoothly. The video features an illuminating discussion among DuPaul, Stoner, and Russell A. Barkley, addressing provocative questions on the benefits of proactive, preventive measures, on the one hand, and reactive techniques, on the other. Using a live classroom setting, the program then reviews classroom management systems that can facilitate the careful monitoring of behavior and academic performance in students with ADHD, enhance the teacher's ability to communicate both positive and corrective feedback, and target social as well as academic skills. The video focuses on interventions for both classwide and individual behavior and instruction. Effective approaches shown include peer tutoring, token economy and response cost strategies, such as the Attention Training System (ATS), active teaching of classroom rules, and self-management techniques.

The Manual

A useful reference and training tool, the accompanying manual reviews important points covered in the video and helps users apply the intervention techniques and support strategies in their own work. Discussion and practice questions are featured throughout, maximizing the program's utility as a training tool. Rounding out the manual is a list of electronic and print resources along with information on how they can be obtained.

Reviews

"The case studies are particularly effective in illustrating the education challenges and modeling interventions. Multiple assessment methods and intervention planning and implementation may be particularly helpful for ADHD students, the teachers, and their families. The videos provide excellent insight, teaching, and support for teacher, parent, specialist, and trainer."
-Childhood Education (Fall 1999

"DuPaul and Stoner have provided state-of-the-art, step-by-step training programs for conducting assessments and designing effective interventions for children with ADHD. The information in these videos and manuals is simple, straightforward, and useful, both for schools and university teacher preparation programs. This is research-to-practice at its best."
-Robert Reid, PhD, Department of Special Education, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

"Presenting a comprehensive system for ADHD assessment and intervention, these videotapes incorporate the latest thinking on the nature of attention disorders. DuPaul and Stoner's approach is laudable for several reasons. It is multimodal, incorporating standardized measures as well as interview and observation data. The videos show a multidisciplinary team whose work is both realistic and professional, with all members contributing to both the assessment and intervention phases of the process. The emphasis on daily classroom performance, both academic and behavioral, is well-placed. The intervention tape is full of practical suggestions for classroom management, with a nice distinction between reactive and proactive strategies, as well as interventions that can be individually tailored or implemented classwide. These tapes depict real people grappling with the kinds of problems that I encounter in my practice on a daily basis."
-Peg Dawson, EdD, Center for Learning and Attention Disorders, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

"These videotapes and accompanying manuals will be valuable learning and demonstration tools for school psychologists and educational professionals in training, and for those wishing to update or broaden their skills....A multidisciplinary, school-based team approach is highlighted and complemented by clear demonstrations of empirically based intervention strategies such as attentional training and peer tutoring."
-M. D. Rapport, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii