Parent Tutoring for Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Effects on Reading Performance at Home and School

A Comparison of Teachers’ and Parents’ Knowledge and Beliefs About Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD)

“…Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the current diagnostic label for one of the most prevalent neurobiological/developmental disorders of childhood (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) that comprises difficulties with sustained attention, distractibility, impulse control and hyperactivity (Barkley, 1997;Houghton et al, 1999;Schachar et al, 2000). The extensive research conducted over the past five to ten years has demonstrated that as many as 35-50 percent of all children with ADHD will also have other specific learning disabilities in the areas of reading, writing, language or maths (De La Paz, 2001;Hook and DuPaul, 1999;Kim and Kaiser, 2000). Furthermore, this research has shown that although these students are most often of average to above-average intelligence, they are also at a very high risk for academic underachievement, especially if their ADHD is unrecognized and not managed appropriately (Barkley, 1998;Green and Chee, 1997).…”

Initial and Over-Time Effects of Fluency Interventions for Students With or At Risk for Disabilities

“…During tutoring, a peer or a parent who was a skilled reader was paired and worked with a student who was a less skilled reader (e.g., Duvall, Delquadri, Elliott, & Hall, 1992; Hook & DuPaul, 1999). The dyads followed highly structured protocols.…”

“…The reading activities included strategies for reading at the word (e.g., phonetic awareness, decoding, sight word recognition) or text level (e.g., identifying the main idea of a passage). Hook and DuPaul (1999) describe these procedures (for an additional example, see Fiala & Sheridan, 2003). A total of 52 participants (17.9%) contributed data for this intervention category.…”

Need to Develop a Home-based Intervention for Specific Learning Disorder in Indian setting

“…They are also one of the main stakeholders who have a great potential to contribute their child's academic success. [4] Unfortunately, parents generally do not know how to assist their children in schoolwork and academic success that leads inadequacy in parents. [5,6] However, scientific evidence does suggest that parents can be trained to impart remedial skills for child's academic issues.…”