ADD and ADHD
What Parents Should Know
ADHD or Gifted? What Parents Need to Know Author of the newly released, Parents’ Guide to IQ Testing and Gifted Education: All You Need to Know to Make the Right Decisions for Your Child. If you have a bright, bouncy child and you (or a well-meaning teacher) suspect attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) … beware! [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Attention Deficit Disorder: What Should We Do?
It is estimated that there are over 2.5 million people who are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. The majority of these are boys. As a mother of a boy and a teacher, I have seen first hand the evidence of this, and I have to ask why we, as a nation, are content to medicate [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )If It Weren’t For Add, We Might Not Have The Theory Of Relativity
Were you a question machine when you were a kid? How come dogs can poop outside, but you won’t let me? Why do raspberries have seeds? How do you know for sure that Santa Claus is watching me every single day? Doesn’t he have more important things to do? If you were lucky, your parents [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Based Remedial Approach with ADHD and Executive Function Impairment
A quick glance at the evolution of human culture would seem to suggest that new inventions, discoveries and progress itself typically arise from serendipitous mergers between previously disparate ideas. Whether it be Einstein imagining himself at a train station, stumbling upon Relativity Theory, Freud engaging in impromptu conversations with clients about their dreams and discovering [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Alternative Education and the ADD – ADHD Child
A recent article in USA Today reports that home schooling has been on a steady rise for the last five years. There are now 1.5 million children being home schooled, up 74% since 1999. A desire for religious or moral instruction, formerly the number one reason to choose homeschooling, is now the second most popular [...]
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