Does anyone have teaching suggestions for a 13 year old diagnosed as hypo-active?

I have worked with students in the uk with similar problems so i hope that I might be able to help.

What we use to do is find out what the student was focusing on for that gave us an in sight on what we might be able to use to help them start learning. By using the things that the student was really interested in we were able to adapt the lesson plans to facilitate their learning. I know that you have probably done that already.

What worked really well with one of the students was to have a study buddy, the study buddy would sit next to the student at a table with two spaces but away from the group so that the student with the problem was able to focus on what the study buddy was doing rather than the bigger area.

The buddy is working in tandem with the student showing them the way to work and normally giving some moral support as well as reminders to do aspects of the work required.

Depending on the student it might also help to have a visual countdown method so that she can see the amount of time that she has to do a certain task, if it is a writing task where she needs to plan the writing then start writing the article I would use a three coloured timer (you can buy them I think from rompa) and tell her that she has until the green counter has gone to plan then yellow is the writing time and when the red portion comes up she needs to be checking for errors and such like.

One thing the students really enjoyed was using music as a countdown, playing the music at the end of a task signalled to them that they had 1-3 minutes to finish what they were doing.

The other option is to have a teaching assistant to help with the student although I think that you might need to have a statement to release funding for a one to one. This might help as a teacher might not have the man hours to deal with someone that is not working to the best of their abilities. Sometimes the student that is finding it difficult might have very low self esteem and having that extra person to encourage her and giving her that extra bit of help might help with those extra issues.

Im not really sure whether making her work through lunch hours and after school will help if she really isn't doing the work during the classroom period would putting this in place actually make her work or will she still look at her work and not finish it/do it.

I think that working with her parents will really help as you might be able to work out a plan of rewards that might make her work harder. I know that with one student if he had done really well during the week mum would take him horse riding.

I cant think of anything else at the moment but if I do I will post again

Use video presentations with animations so that she can focus on the lessons. Some of my students get bored in their studies and this is a good way to help them learn. Let me know if this is effective.