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[quote=Anonymous]My son (7 yo) is ADHD and my daughter (10 yo) is not.  Both have been in Montessori since they were 3 years old.  I will say that this education method has definitely been the best one for both of them.

However, an ADHD child is constantly in motion and the teachers have to be able to redirect and support the child.  So we augmented my son's education with an ADHD summer Treatment program at the Cleveland Clinic (ran by a Dr Manos).  This is an intensive behavioral modification program (medication is optional but not pushed).  In this program my son learned how to control his own behavior and his teacher incorporated some of the program's structure into the classroom (levels and rewards... which are blasphemous to montessori).

After his first summer in the program and 1 month in his modified classroom my son was able to focus enough to do math and reading.  Since then he has excelled in all of the areas of the classroom.  This was after a year of him not being able to focus.

This was his second summer in the treatment program and he went back to school ready to learn new lessons.  So in 1 year and 2 months he has progressed from:
- a non reader to reading large chapter books
- barely being able to add to doing division, multiplication, volume, angles and fractions (adding and subtracting).
-doing research projects on his own (reports, posters and diaramas)

-he is control of his own emotions, behavior and his learning. The ability for the classroom to be slightly modified and to incorporate traditional montessori learning approaches has served my son well.  his teachers represent material to him as he needs it. But this is what they do for all children because it is part of the 3 cylce lesson. THe child masters the subject before he is given the next lessson.
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