If You Love Someone Who Has ADHD, Don’t Do These 20 Things
You wonder if everybody’s life is as chaotic as yours. Something’s not right.Your child doesn’t act like the other children in the class. Homework assignments guarantee a night of fights, slammed doors, and tears shed. The teachers call you in for conferences weekly. Your husband gets fired again claiming all his bosses are jerks....
40Winning Accommodations for Your ADD/LD Child
Increase the odds of your child succeeding in school by pinpointing his problems in the classroom and including effective accommodations in his IEP or 504 Plan to remedy
them. Below is a list of challenges your child may face during the school day along with specific accommodations to overcome them.
Talk with your child’s teacher about...
ADHD Drugs Make Big Money, But We Still Don’t Know the Risks – Wired
HANDS UP IF any of these things describes your kids, you as a kid, or kids you know: inability to wait for a turn; temper tantrums; fidgeting; inability to finish chores; being too loud; being too quiet. Congratulations! The kid in question might have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and he (and it’s a he...
ADHD Solution That is All Natural and Avoids ADHD Drugs | Med Log
ADHD Natural Solution
ADHD, short for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, is a common chronic disorder of childhood, affecting an estimated 4 – 12% of all school-aged children. This condition is more common in boys than in girls, by a ratio of 3:1.
ADHD often carries over from childhood into adulthood. In both children and adults, the...
20 Things to Remember If You Love a Person with ADHD and ADD
It’s a fact; a person with ADD is hard to love. You never know what to say. It’s like walking through a minefield. You tiptoe around; unsure which step (or word) will be the one that sets off an explosion of emotion. It’s something you try to avoid.
People who have ADD/ADHD are suffering. Life...
25 Things to Love About Your Child with ADHD
This is a positive, uplifting article aimed at ADHD parents. The article includes 25 easy to read bullet points. The points include good qualities of children with ADHD. For example, how they can find order in chaos and how they want to help others. The article also adds humorous thoughts such as ADHD children...
17 Ways to Help Students With ADHD Concentrate
Research shows that students with ADHD can concentrate better when they’re allowed to fidget (here’s a link to the study). But what if this becomes a distraction for the rest of the class? We received hundreds of Facebook comments from teachers, parents, and students with great ideas for letting students quietly fidget, and here...
If You Don’t Have ADHD, You’ll Never Understand These Things
If you have ADHD, I’m sure people tell you all the time that it’s a disability. People look at ADHD as a terrible condition that hinders you from leading a happy, productive life, but that’s not necessarily true.Sure, ADHD can make sitting behind a desk for hours extremely difficult, but it doesn’t mean that...