Silvia L. DeRuvo 
Strategies for Teaching Adolescents with ADHD 
Effective Classroom Techniques Across the Content Areas, Grades 6-12

ADHD expert offers help for teaching the content areas tostudents with attention problems

Written by an expert in the field of ADHD, this importantresource offers strategies to teach adolescents with ADHD acrossall core content areas: English Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies. These strategies have been classroom-tested andproven to engage students during content instruction so that theywill gain a lasting understanding of the material taught. Asstudents interact with the content–talk, write, draw, andcreate a variety of media in relation to the content–allstudents, including those with ADHD, will learn the basicsnecessary for post-secondary education and employment.
* Offers an important guide for teaching core content toadolescents with ADHD
* Includes information for engaging ADHD students in a way thatmakes content memorable
* Explains how to use the strategies to teach allclassroom students
* Written by a nationally known authority on ADHD
* Published in partnership with the acclaimed West Edorganization

Sobre el autor

Silvia L. De Ruvo, M.A, is a Special Education Resources Development Specialist for West Ed. She teaches Special Education courses at Sacramento State University and speaks nationally on the topics of ADHD, Response-to-Intervention, and inclusion of special needs children in general classrooms. A past president of the California Association of Resource Specialists and Special Educators (CARS+), De Ruvo has twenty years’ experience as a special educator working with children with mild to moderate disabilities.