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TEACHERS! How Not to Kill the Spirit in Your ADHD Kids
In Sarah’s first book, How Not to Murder Your ADHD Kid – Instead, Learn How to be Your Child’s Own ADHD Coach, she resonated with mums and dads who, desperate for teachers to understand their children’s ADHD brains, started thrusting copies at them! Those same parents encouraged Sarah to write this book for teaching professionals.
Sarah understands only too well how big a part teachers and schools play in helping children get the best start in life. She spent eleven years in the English education system, yet nobody identified her moderate-to-severe ADHD, severe dyspraxia, dyscalculia or sensory processing disorder, meaning she failed her 12+ ‘spectacularly’!
Sarah is now passionate about helping teachers identify and work with these conditions in the classroom. Children who are not diagnosed and treated for their neurodiverse conditions often have a dismal time at school: they know they feel different and don’t fit in, but they don’t understand why. This can lead them to experiment with drugs or alcohol and fall so easily into a life of addiction, unemployment, homelessness or crime.
Working with ADHD children and adolescents for ten years in private practice, Sarah has seen first-hand the road from ‘stroppy kid’ via ‘naughty teen’ to ‘young offender’ and is committed to helping teachers understand their ADHD students before things get out of hand. In this book, Sarah shares her insider knowledge of how ADHD kids’ brains really work. She will help you understand their thoughts, actions and behaviours and give you the very best ways of managing ADHD in the classroom, ensuring these kids go on to be the leaders and winners they were born to be.
‘Sarah gets ADHD brains like no other therapist.’ – Dr Helen Read, Psychiatrist, The ADHD Consultancy
Testimonials
As a late diagnosed neurodivergent myself, trying to raise my own nd kids in a more supportive, constructive, and positive way than I experienced (no shade on my parents and wider family/community – we just didn’t have the awareness back then) – I can’t tell you how optimistic and empowered this book is making me feel.
I have bought 3 paper copies and the audiobook so far, gifting them to teachers in hopes they can be inspired and empowered to get more of the great out of, and inadvertently cause less of the crushing spirits in, all their nd students (and there are some in every class!) I am fired up about finding a way to get this in to EVERY school and teachers hands, somehow…
Of course, I have only accessed the audio book version personally so far (my brain struggles to have focus and patience with reading anymore, super sad about that but that’s another story) but I heartily recommend that too – I have listened through once on 1.5x speed so far, frantically noting chapters and clips to return to . Honestly, this book is an absolute heaven sent gem 💎
Such a great resource for teachers and gave me an insight into lots of traits I was unaware of. Useful tips that are transferable into a classroom where there is a mix of Neurodiverse & Neurotypical children.
Every teacher should read this book!
This is a user friendly guide for teachers to understand the uniqueness of ADHD is focuses on the strengths of ADHD and how teachers can harness them.
It also enables teachers to recognise the challenges of having pupils with ADHD but give practical ways to support them!
Parents recommend for your child’s teacher. Schools get one for your CPD library!
Bought this as a present for the school staff room at my kids school.
One of the TAs told me they’d all been reading it at break time, and were so pleased to have it as a reference as our county provides NO training for school staff about ADHD!!
I might have to buy myself a copy to read at home so I can refer to it in those dreaded school meetings… It’ll be helpful to be able to say the right stuff back!
I was gifted this book by the mother of a child I teach. And what a gift it is. I thought I knew what ADHD was all about. Surely, it was about children who couldn’t concentrate and focus and were hyperactive? How wrong could I be.
I had absolutely no idea that there were so many different traits and ways of thinking ADHD children have.
I now feel extremely guilty that I wasn’t aware of the coexisting conditions like dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia, which are going to show up in my classroom, and would most likely mean the child is also ADHD. I think back to children I have taught in previous years, and I can see these traits in them, and I kick myself that I hadn’t read a book like this before.
So I beseech any teachers in training or qualified to grab a copy of this book, which I also understand, comes on Kindle and audio, and please read it because I can guarantee that if you’re like me – this level of understanding will not have been included in your training. It certainly wasn’t included in mine.
I now feel able to support ADHD children and realise that the last thing we should be doing is curtailing their natural ADHD, and instead, we should be cherishing and nurturing their brilliant and wonderful neurodivergent minds.
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