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Relative Efficacy Of School-Home Notes And Classroom Based Contingencies In Low-Income Elementary School Students With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Jennette Lea Palcic
Relative Efficacy Of School-Home Notes And Classroom Based Contingencies In Low-Income Elementary School Students With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Jennette Lea Palcic
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A great deal of evidence suggests that ADHD negatively impacts children’s academic performance and on-task behavior. School-home notes have proven to be an effective and acceptable method of classroom behavior management. A school-home note is a daily report card in which a teacher rates a student on any number of target behaviors. The note is then sent home so that the child may receive consequences contingent on that day's behavior. Although successful at decreasing off-task behavior in the classroom, treatment integrity is not always maintained at acceptable levels. Additionally, ADHD children have been shown to be more responsive to immediate …