The summer slide is real — and real hard on kids with attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD) and learning disabilities, who work diligently and tirelessly for each and every academic gain they make.
The last thing anyone wants is to waste three months re-teaching and re-learning all of the lessons from last spring. Yet you’re not sure where or how to begin a summer learning program.
You also don’t want to spend your summer battling with your child. To be honest, neither did I, which is why I developed this summer learning plan for my ADHD: creative, fun activity ideas to help your child maintain their reading, writing, and mathematical gains through the summer.Simple fact: Your child won’t read unless she sees you reading.
So pick up some books — together. Hit the library — the biggest, flashiest branch in the area with the most books. My sons won’t read Island of the Blue Dolphins (#CommissionsEarned) for any amount of cash money, but they sure will devour books that interest them: nonfiction books on alien and Sasquatch sightings for one kid; nonfiction books on frogs and toads for another.