Teaching ADD Kids to Learn Effectively

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Often teachers and parents have trouble dealing with children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. While the common approach involves medication, one educational facility in Israel has a different approach -- teaching students how to learn effectively. Our correspondent brings us the story.

The Center of Wisdom in Israel, is taking a different approach to the problem of kids with attention deficit disorder, or ADD.

It teaches them how to learn and succeed without resorting to pharmaceuticals.

A common solution nowadays is to treat children diagnosed with ADD using Ritalin.

But the director of the Center of Wisdom believes that specially designed teaching methods, not drugs, are the key to solving the problem.

[Aviram Heihal, Director, Center of Wisdom]:
"What we do here, in fact, is instead of labeling the child as problematic and so on, we basically remain educators and not medical professionals. From an education perspective, we believe that there is no child that can't be helped. We need to change the ways to reach every child."

This mother of one of the center participants lists some problems that her child was struggling with.

[Limor, Mother of Center Participant]:
"Inability to concentrate in class, overstepping boundaries, almost complete loss of wanting to study and attend school. A significant decline in achievement compared to previous years. There were other difficulties and social problems too."

The director of the center says that the key to success in the program lies in the student's motivation.

[Aviram Heihal, Director, Center of Wisdom]:
"We do not take kids here who do not want to be here. Those who succeed here are, first of all, children who want to do so."