Attention Without Tension

A book that gives teachers all the tools necessary to identify and manage children with Attention Disorders. Highlights Include:

• Complete description of Attention Problems: Causes, Characteristics and Interventions
• Legal Issues
• 12- Step Action Plan
• Effective Teaching Methods
• Classroom management Strategies
• Teacher’s Success Stories
• 80 Pages of Duplicating Masters Contents

  Introduction
  Understanding Attention Disorders
  

  1. Key Facts About Children With Attention Disorders
  2. What are Attention Disorders
  3. History of ADHD
  4. Reluctance to Identify ADHD
  5. Legal Issues and Legal Rights of ADHD Students
  6. Validity of ADHD Syndrome
  7. Causes of ADHD
  8. Learning Disabilities and Attention Disorders
  9. Language Disorders, Reading Disorders and ADHD in Preschoolers
  10. Learning Style Preference and ADHD
  11. Developmental Readiness and ADHD
  12. Characteristics of Children with ADHD
  Treating Attention Disorders
  
  13. Developing an Action Plan
  14. Roles of the Members of the Treatment Team
  15. Psychological/ Psychoeducational Evaluation
  16. Treatment Approaches
  17. Medication
  18. Behavior Management Strategies
  19. Psychological Interventions
  20. Educational Intervention
17. Statement of Objectives
18. Managing ADHD in the Classroom
19. General Strategies
20. Specific Strategies
19. Teacher’s Success Story
20. References
Supplemental Materials

21. Appendix of Forms
Identification and Goal Setting

1. Problem Solving Assessment
2. My Students Behavior
3. Child/Adolescents Assessment of home/school
4. Overall summary for meeting with child/parents
5. Tow-week Goals
6. Academic Summary
7. Letter to parents
8. Letter to professional
9. Written Consent
10. Preschool Check Up: A Symptom Checklist for Developmental Disabilities
11. A Check Up for Elementary School Children
12. A Check Up or Adolescents: A Symptom Checklist for Behavioral, Attentional, Learning and Emotional Difficulties.
13. Copeland Symptom Checklist for Attention Deficit Disorders
14. Copeland Symptom Checklist for Adult Attention Deficit Disrders
15. Scoring the Copeland Symptom Checklists
16. Medication Schedule
17. Medication Weekly Record Form
18. Copeland Medication Follow-up Questionnaire
19. Medication – Side Effects Checklist
    Responsibility Programs
    
20. Responsibility Chart (Elementary Children)
21. Chipper Bear Responsibility Chart
22. Responsibility Chart (Teenagers)
23. Family Organization Calendar
    Classroom Management and Organization
    (Scheduling)
    
24. Sample Daily Schedule
25. Daily Assignment Sheet
    (Homework)
    
26. Elementary School Weekly Homework Sheet
27. Middle/High School Weekly Homework Sheet
28. Daily Homework Sheet
29. Daily Class, Homework and Test Record
    (Writing Paper)
    
30. Graph Paper for Math – 1” Squares
31. Graph Paper- 3/4” Squares
32. Graph Paper- 1/2” Squares
33. Small Graph Paper- 1/4” Squares
    (Progress Reports)
    
34. Daily Progress Report ( Older Student Example)
35. Daily Progress Report (Older Student Form)
36. Daily Progress Report (Younger Student Example)
37. Daily Progress Report (Younger Student Form)
    Resource Material
    
38. National Support Groups and Associations
39. U.S. Department of Education Clarification of Policy
40. List of Regional Civil Rights Offices
41. Suggested Readings and audioprograms for Parents, Teachers and Professionals