GCSEs and ADHD

[citychick]

Hello!

Our DC has been diagnosed with ADHD. He takes a tablet every day.

He's heading into year 9.
I'm curious as to how other DC's cope/d with the syllabus.

We both work but I've had to scale back hours for online schooling.

Have you scaled back work hours to support and / or employed a tutor to help?

How did you and your DC cope with the increasing amount of school work and homework?

Any hints and tips would be so helpful.

Many thanks.

Hiya

DC diagnosed year 11.

What helped was 1. drugs 2. extra time 3. being allowed to take breaks if brain raced away with her or got stuck in a rut 4. SEN support in how to structure essays 5. Teachers knowing so briefed to enable extra movement in class (eg toilet break, or handing out papers) - to be honest not sure how much this happened! 6. Doodling - some teachers hated this but really helped

I think key is understanding your own child's challenges. Ours wasn't the workload but subjects where long essays were required - challenge to sort too much information and structure lineararlly - combined with procrastination so always doing at last minute. Subjects that could be chunked - like maths and science - were less challenging

Thank you.

How helpful were the Sen dept at school?

The school day isn't the problem ATM.
It's the homework. He's no interest once he's left the school building.

Was there a homework club?