Help For ADD

Treatment For Children With Attention Deficits

Do any of these describe your child?

• Drifts off in class
• Can only read for short periods
• Is easily distracted when doing homework or reading
• Takes a long time to complete homework

Processing Undermines Focus
These common symptoms of ADD or Inattentive Attention Deficit Disorder or ADHD-PI (Predominantly Inattentive) are most often caused by a processing deficit that makes listening and reading comprehension both difficult and exhausting. The student therefore struggles to stay engaged, leading to concerns about ADD.
Checklist of attention deficit symptoms

Our Program For ADD

Gemm Learning uses Fast ForWord cognitive software to help children with ADD. Fast ForWord has exercises that target the causes of ADD, and other exercises that build attention stamina. Here is the approach:

1. Target Processing Deficits That Cause ADD
   By speeding up processing, a pervasive cause of ADD in children, Fast ForWord effectively slows the world down, making listening comprehension more accurate, less exhausting and more interesting. This same improvement in processing helps phonological awareness, a crucial reading skill. Easier comprehension promotes student engagement and focus.
   Brain fitness program for processing


2. Training Of Specific Attention Skills
   Fast ForWord has exercises that help ADD in its various forms:
   
   
   • Impulsiveness. One exercise challenges the student to wait for a match, to process a list of alternatives that lengthens over time as the student succeeds, penalizing premature or erratic decisions. Reduced impulsivity helps test taking, social situations, homework, reading and listening in class.
   
   
   • Inattentiveness. Attention stamina is an important learning and test taking skill, that children with sound processing skills tend to learn naturally. Most exercises only progress with consecutive correct responses -- this escalating requirement for consistent accuracy and concentration trains attention stamina.
   
   
   • Distractibility. Several exercises have escalating extraneous activity that seeks to pull the student off task, replicating the distractions of the real world. By gradually learning to resist these distracters, students learn selective attention, the ability to stay focused and on task -- in class, doing homework and while reading.
   
   

   All exercises use adaptive technology to build attention skills slowly but surely over the 3-4 months that children are on the program. These skills integrate with other cognitive functions, meaning the improvements in attention skills become part of the student, used and practiced daily, and so the gains endure.



3. Better Reading & Comprehension
   Our programs improve reading skills, first by making decoding automatic and effortless, then by building vocabulary, spelling, and reading comprehension. Automatic (effortless) decoding makes it easier to read for longer periods, a prerequisite to eventual reading proficiency. It also makes it easier to extract meaning from the text, making it more interesting, another contributor to improved focus and reading stamina.
   More about reading and ADD

At Home Service

Gemm Learning was founded to make Fast ForWord -- a professional, in-clinic software -- available to families at home. Many of our families use our programs to help ADD in their children.
Our ADD treatment programs

Your Next Step: A Free Consult?

Help for ADD is by nature complicated. Real change requires energy and effort, and every case is different.
FAQ on attention deficit difficulties

If you have questions or are unsure if our treatment is right for your ADD child, please call to find out. The 15-minute consult is free. If you would prefer a consult outside standard hours, Monday-Fridays 9AM to 6PM EST, simply complete this request.
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