This website is the online home of Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. CHADD is a national non-profit organization founded in 1987 in response to the frustration and sense of isolation experienced by parents and children with AD/HD.
CHADD is composed of dedicated volunteers from around the country who play an integral part in the association's success by providing resources and encouragement to parents, educators and professionals on a grassroots level.
The directory provides free referral for a liscenced eye doctor who provides vision therapy. This directory also offers advice for people who have questions about ADHD/ADD and how it relates to vision problems.
In this sequel to "Driven to Distraction," Edward Hallowell and John Ratay provide practical solutions to the struggles of people with ADD. Each chapter is devoted to one aspect of the disorder: ADD in women, ADD and aggression, ADD and addiction and more.
An expert on ADD, Stephen Garber provides a guide for coping with this disorder by helping to answer the questions: Do I have a correct diagnosis of ADHD? What kind of medication might be helpful? What else can and should I do to help myself or my child deal with this problem? In addition, this book includes a complete checklist of ADHD symptoms, charts, work sheets and a comprehensive list of valuable resources and support groups.
This book by Deirdre Lovecky is provides an insight into the challenges and benefits specific to gifted children with attention difficulties. Explaining why certain children are gifted and how giftedness is manifested, each chapter on a specific topic addresses the relevance for children with AD/HD, autism and Asperger Syndrome. Lovecky guides parents and professionals through methods of diagnosis and advises on how best to nurture individual needs, positive behavior and relationships at home and at school.
Written by a psychologist, this book offers advice for parents struggling to raise children who are clearly bright but who are also maddeningly unfocused. The author calls such children "Edison-trait" who exhibit divergent thinking, focusing on many ideas simultaneously.
As two successful medical professionals with ADD, authors Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey help dispel a vairety of myths about the disorder - i.e. "ADD is an issue only for children." The book goes on to cite stories and case studies of many who have dealt successfully with their diagnosis.
Winner of the National Parenting Publications Award (NAPPA) Honors recipient for ages 6+, this book by Janet S. Fox and Pamela Espeland, is full of you-can-do-it ways for your child to manage his desk, locker, backpack and other major messes. Find out how your son/daughter can be organized with less stress and more success.
This book outlines a proven step-by-step program to help change your child's behavior at home. Stephen Garber discusses the characteristics of inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsivity.
This book shows us how, with an understandable ten step program for home and an equally straightforward program for school, children with attention or behavior problems can succeed with the help of firm, loving parents and teachers. Jim Fay, Foster Cline and Robert Sornson have been sharing the skills of parenting through Love and Logic for over 20 years.
Written by six experts in the field, this award winning book (2006 recipient of the ForeWord Magazine's Gold Medal Best Book of the Year Award in Psychology) discusses the importance of identifying giftedness and understanding how the characteristics of being gifted are often similar to those used to diagnosis disorders such as ADHD, ODD, Bipolar, OCD, Autism, or Asperser’s. This book outlines steps for successfully identifying the differences between giftedness and disorders.
Helpful for parents, this book explains what ADHD is, that others have the same problems and how it effects one's home and school lives. Find practical and clearly described suggestions.
In their book, Jeffrey Freed and Laurie Parsons include a convenient checklist for determining if your child is right brained or left and offer wonderful ideas on how to teach those students who just don't "get" the methods teachers commonly use.
Chris Zeigler Dendy presents practical information that will help parents in their day to day struggle to deal with the changing world of an adolescent with ADHD. Dendy illustrates these points with factual material helpful to both parents and teachers.
The authors show how to help--and cope with--the difficult child. Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset even experienced parents and teachers. They often act defiant, stubborn, loud, aggressive, or hyperactive. They can also be clingy, shy, whiny, picky, and impossible at bedtime, mealtimes, and in public places.
In this book the reader will find a collection of expert opinions on ADD plus the real-life everyday experiences of people living with this disorder. Editors Thom Hartmann, Janie Bowman and Susan Burgess.
In their book, Susan Baum and Steven Owen offer valuable information on identifying and meeting the needs of gifted and learning disabled (GLD) young people. They also stress the fact that these students require special attention, and it is vital that schools pay attention to the gifts as well as the learning difficulties.
Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley unveil an amazing set of strategies developed specifically for children with ADHD and other challenging behaviors to facilitate parenting and classroom success. These methods have helped thousands of families to transform their child from using their intensity in primarily negative ways to using their intensity in beautifully creative and constructive ways. This approach has also helped teachers and other school personnel to have a dramatically positive effect on all children.
Kradwell School is a school for students who aren't successful in traditional type school settings. They cater to gifted students, students with learning and behavioral disabilities including Dyslexia, A.D.D., A.D.H.D, Anxiety Disorders, Bi-Polar Disorder and Depression.
This is a unique school that offers self-paced learning for learners with a high energy level. Students range from 2-11th grade. Their approach accommodates those learners who would be labeled ADD/ADHD in public school with high IQ's. They have had remarkable results using mentors and directors who monitor computer-based curriculum.
This college is one of the only accredited colleges in the United States designed exclusively for students with dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), or other specific learning disabilities.
Landmark offers Associate's Degree Programs, Study Abroad Programs, College Skills Summer Sessions, High School Summer Sessions and Summer Transition to College Sessions for Recent High School Graduates. Landmark also offers workshops and seminars for educators seeking professional development in the fields of learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders.
ADD in School.com presents hundreds of classroom interventions to help elementary school, and high school students with "ADD" or "ADHD," Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. "ADHD" in all six of its types, impacts about two students in every school classroom, in every school, in every state, across America.
This web page contains a listing of helpful links that contain information connecting ADD/ADHD to eye problems.
A website and online magazine designed for those living with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and learning disabilities. There are links to online forums, events, eNewsletters and resources, including searchable directories.
This web page provides links to information for helping students at school and at home with ADHD/ADD behavior. Find tips for giving instructions, behavior reinforcement, behavior modification techniques and more.
The ADHDSupportCompany.com site is "the site filled with timely, relevant information for everyone whose life is touched by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: parents, patients, teachers, doctors, nurses, family and friends."
This article is two excerpts from gifted and talented resources. The first excerpt is from an interview with Stephanie S. Tolan who "writes about giftedness for Advanced Development Journal and Roeper Review, and is a consultant on highly gifted children." The second excerpt is from "ADHD and Children Who Are Gifted", ERIC Digest #522.
This link is a list of general characteristics of giftedness. Individuals that are gifted may not show all of the characteristics. Additionally, in recent years, more studies have been completed on giftedness.
Dr. Armstrong is an educator and psychogist in the fieds of multiple intelligences, the myth of ADD/ADHD, and the natural genius of kids. Armstrong's website is packed with useful information through books for purchase, articles and his own lectures.
This article thoroughly discusses the issue of ADD and how it relates to giftedness. It goes into detail about key characteristics of gifted children, how "gifted" is defined, and offers advice for parents.
This web page hosted by LD Online provides articles, book recommendations, and a Q&A section specific to the topic of ADHD.
This website is a valuable resource for those who either parent or teach children with learning difficulties. In addition to the blog support and podcasts, is an extensive page of ADHD information, resources and links.
This website contains information about learning styles and Multiple Intelligence (MI). Although useful to everyone, it is especially helpful for people with learning disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder.
"Many gifted and talented children (and adults) are being mis-diagnosed by psychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, and other health care professionals. These common mis-diagnoses stem from an ignorance among professionals about specific social and emotional characteristics of gifted children which are then mistakenly assumed by these professionals to be signs of pathology. In some situations where gifted children have received a correct diagnosis, giftedness is still a factor that must be considered in treatment, and should really generate a dual diagnosis."
Along with videos/DVDs, National Professional Resources (NPR) also publishes and distributes books for staff development in the field of education. Areas of concentration include Administration/School Reform, Special Education/Inclusion, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Multiple Intelligences/Emotional Intelligence just to name a few.
This article by Joe Sinclair discusses ADD and ADHD compared to giftedness in children. "It is not the intention of this article to deal with the causes and treatment of children suffering from ADD or ADHD. Rather it is the fact that until comparatively recently it was not recognised that similar behavioural difficulties might be the result of a child's inability to integrate into a classroom or group environment because of the child's exceptional intelligence."
For people with attention problems, paying attention in a high stimuli environment, such as watching a 3-ring circus or playing a video game, is not an issue. However, focusing and concentrating on tasks as simple as reading and comprehending a book or memo, listening to a teacher or in a meeting, and writing with little effort can seem impossible. Play Attention is a patented, dynamic integrated learning system built on NASA-proven technology that allows you to train your brain to gain focus, improve concentration, pay attention, and help overcome the challenges associated with lack of focus and inattentiveness.
This website was created by a homeschool educator of an ADHD child. Carol's Web Corner is dedicated to teaching and seeing the gift in your highly distractible child. The website contains teaching tips, frequently asked questions, Carol's book, tapes & resources, and more.
This board game teaches children with ADD/ADHD behaviors how they can adjust to the demands of the classroom and school-related areas using appropriate self-talk techniques. The game starts at home, followed by a bus ride to school where the setting is classrooms, the playground, lunch and other situations ending with a bus ride home. Rules in each situation are emphasized with special consideration given to transitions.