Breakthrough with Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) student
In this blog post, I would like to share what I hope is a breakthrough with my ADHD music student today. My student is 10 years old diagnosed with Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) . She is a really bright kid, speaks well and talkative but very low in confidence. Every other week, she will have some sort of injury, in fact today she said she twisted her wrist ice-skating and wanted me to sign on her cast. In some previous lessons, she would be quite spacey and watch her tablet instead of focussing on the music score. It is likely that she is not interested in the score that I had printed for her, especially, the songs that she is not familiar, songs that have no lyrics, songs that are more than one page. This seems to be the trend for most of my special needs music student. My observation is that they have no confidence to complete the task because its too long or complicated and not becau...