Apps for ADHD

Good Idea! I'll be interested if any pop up.

For reading comp the best thing I found with my own son (HS'ing my 9yo ADHD-c kiddo) is Charlotte Mason 'Narrating'.

In a nutshell, you put every sentence (if you're starting out where where we were!), then paragraph, then scene, then chapter "in your own words". Process takes a few months. 'In your own words' changes kid to kid. Some literally just explain what's happening in their own words. Some write. Some draw. My son is a performer... so he acted them out. For more on narration... here's a great link: http://simplycharlottemason.com/timesavers/narration/

For the sensory processing issues that often happen with adhd, one of the common things that happens is either auditory (not being able to put spoken word to picture in your mind) or visual (not being able to turn written word into image). Without the mental 'movie' that happens reading or listening can be like a neurotypical person trying to memorize (seriously, try to actually LOOK at each letter and number and phrase and commit them to memory).

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Yeah. My mind grinds to a halt as well. Now imagine pages and pages and pages of such things. But learning to gradually create the 'movie' that happens when reading can be life altering.

I learned pretty young to speed read by putting a ruler under each line and scroll down. Eventually I could do it with a finger and didn't look as strange. By making people I know the faces for the characters it became like a movie and kept me interested. As long as I was drawn in I could retain pretty much everything I read.

As far as the boring stuff goes I can retain any math or logic problem so I trick my brain into retaining grammar by creating logic problems with it. I did the same thing in college and used ,if then, to memorize huge parts of the tax code. I swear to all I hold dear nothing is more boring than tax code.

I have found that every ADHD mind is a little different. The best thing you can do is understand how each mind works, and listen to Riley cause she has read a lot more on the subject than I have. :)

Oh, I have four kids, how I learn only works for my oldest and my youngest. Number two figured herself out on her own and number three is a tough nut to crack. Same gene pool, all different ways of thinking.

iPad apps? I have found a Facebook page that list several but I was looking for speech. For the iPad there is articulation station, word wagon, injini, Eddy's party, and ones by Toca. I have more if you need them and if you want the Facebook page let me know. The Facebook page covers several areas not just speech.

If you have children with ADHD, there are things YOU as the mother can do to help alleviate your child's situation. ADHD brains are disorganized, but have all the tools they need to succeed. Activities at home can change the wiring of their brain. Please listen to these moms who have successfully implemented a program in their homes:
http://www.parentswithpurpose.com/index.php?option=com_co...
Finding and organizing the areas where their brains need the stimulation is very straight forward.