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This easy-to-follow, best-selling book on ADD/ADHD is a resource that features strategies to help ADD/ADHD students improve their social, emotional and academic and abilities. This valuable book provides a clear understanding of what an attention deficit disorder really is, and the best way to treat it. The book present 102 ways parents and professionals can help children and adolescents cope with and overcome ADHD, and includes checklists and charts to help with organizational skills. Using a brief and quick reference format, this book shows you how the "deficit" in ADD/ADHD can be reduced in children and adolescents. This resource is immediately available for professionals, educators and parents.

This American Academy of Pediatrics child care guide offers balanced, reassuring, and authoritative information for parents to help them understand and manage this complicated and often misunderstood condition. Based on evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for ADHD, and written for parents in clear, easy-to-understand language, this new book will quickly become part of your overall ADHD treatment plan.

All children can be challenging at some point in time, but some are more challenging than others.  Students with social, emotional and behavioral difficulties (SEBD) can be hard to support and teach.  This pocketbook can help you to do just that. Focusing on three particular behavior disorders: ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), CD (Conduct Disorder) and ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder). Fintan O'Regan, who is an internationally renowned expert on ADHD, explains why some children are prone to developing the attitude that they can't learn, won't learn or don't care.  He devotes particular chapters to each behavior pattern, and uses Vicki, Liam and Darren to illustrate typical characteristics.  Practical strategies include classroom scenarios, with example dialogues that show how different teacher responses can lead to different outcomes.  Whether you're looking for explanations, tips, ideas, or strategies, or maybe just reassurance and support, this book covers it all.

The Creative Coaching Support Group has been comprehensively field tested and won the 1997 Texas Counseling Association Writers Award. This book contains easy-to-follow activities, games and hints on how to lead a successful support group for children with attention disorders. Using a sports theme throughout, this highly motivating resource offers a large and unique collection of new ideas.

In this educational video, you'll learn about attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and the factors thought to contribute to the development of this disorder.  Additionally, the other disorders that commonly co-exist with ADHD are identified.  The impulsive behavior of ADHD teens will be focused on, and tips that ADHD students can use to succeed academically will be provided.  Laws that require schools to make special accommodations for ADHD students will be reviewed, and viewers will learn how to contact organizations that exist to help people who are dealing with ADD/ADHD.

Sensory integration is a drug-free, child-friendly therapy for hyperactivity. A treatment based on play, it helps children absorb, process, and respond to information in an appropriate manner.  This hands-on guide provides a complete overview and explanation of the therapy, as well as practical sensory integration-based techniques that can be used by teachers and parents to help the hyperactive child.  This is a non-medical approach, and can be used in conjunction with, or as a substitute for traditional drug treatments.

This book provides a resource that answers nearly one hundred of the most common questions and concerns.  Most experts say that, conservatively, well over six million children have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).  The AD/HD Book seeks to manage fears and rationally addresses nearly one hundred common questions and concerns to help parents make sense of the information chaos. Beth Ann Hill, herself a mother and educator of AD/HD children, clearly explains the basics of AD/HD and lays out its complexities.  She logically takes parents step-by-step, from symptoms, diagnoses and tests, medication, a treatment strategy designed to combine medical treatment, and special parenting techniques to break through problem behaviors.

Pages:  224

This book has been entirely updated, adding the latest information on medications, ADHD, and uses a caring approach to deal with all aspects of childhood behavioral disorders.  It is the respected book on parenting those difficult children that are hard to raise, and contains new sections on ADHD and the latest medications for childhood disorders.   Dr. Stanley Turecki is a highly respected expert on children and discipline, and was also the father of a difficult child at one time.   He offers compassionate and useful information to parents of these type of children.  Using his experience with many families in the highly successful Difficult Children Program that he created for Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, his approach, one step at a time, shows you how to use a ten-point test to identify your child's temperament.  You will be able to isolate specific difficulties and learn to handle common, but sometimes unmanageable situations expertly and calmly.

Pages:  302

Three years ago, magazine editor Denise Brodey's precocious four-year-old son, Toby, was diagnosed with a combination of sensory integration dysfunction and childhood depression.  Struggling to make sense of her new, often chaotic, often lonely world, the thing she found most comforting was talking with other, hopeful, and insightful parents of kids with special needs, and learning how they coped with the feelings they encountered throughout the day.  In The Elephant in the Playroom, parents from across the country write in an honest and intimate way about the joyful highs and disordered lows of raising children who are "not quite normal".  Laying bare the emotional, medical, and social challenges they face, these stories address issues ranging from if and when to medicate a child, to how to get a child who is overly sensitive to the texture of food to eat lunch.  Eloquent and honest, the voices in this collection will provide solace and support for the millions of parents whose kids struggle with ADD, ADHD, sensory disorders, childhood depression, Asperger's syndrome, and autism, as well as the many kids who fall between diagnoses.

Pages:  256

Using the established methods he developed to overcome dyslexia, Ron Davis adapts techniques to help sufferers triumph over a variety of common learning disabilities, including:

• Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
• ADHD (the hyperactive variety)
• Math deficiency (dyscalculia and acalculia)
• Handwriting problems (dysgraphia and agraphia)