Showing posts with label ADDADHD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ADDADHD. Show all posts

November 30, 2010

ADD/ADHD Behavior-Change Resource Kit: Ready-to-Use Strategies & Activities for Helping Children with Attention Deficit Disorder

For teachers, counselors and parents, this comprehensive new resource is filled with up-to-date information and practical strategies to help kids with attention deficits learn to control and change their own behaviors and build the academic, social, and personal skills necessary for success in school and in life. The Kit first explains ADD/ADHD behavior, its biological bases and basic characteristics and describes procedures used for diagnosis and various treatment options. It then details a proven set of training exercises and programs in which teachers, counselors and parents work together to monitor and manage the child's behavior to achieve the desired results.
Price: $29.95

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November 29, 2010

How To Reach And Teach Children with ADD/ADHD: Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions (J-B Ed: Reach and Teach)

Sandra Rief offers myriad real-life case studies, interviews, and student intervention plans for children with ADD/ADHD. In addition, the book contains best teaching practices and countless strategies for enhancing classroom performance for all types of students.
This invaluable resource offers proven suggestions for:
  • Engaging students' attention and active participation
  • Keeping students on-task and productive
  • Preventing and managing behavioral problems in the classroom
  • Differentiating instruction and addressing students' diverse learning styles
  • Building a partnership with parents
  • and much more.
Price: $32.95
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The ADD/ADHD Checklist: A Practical Reference for Parents and Teachers (J-B Ed: Checklist)

The bestselling guide, fully revised and updated, offering practical information and tips to help every child with ADHD succeed
The ADD/ADHD Checklist helps parents and teachers to better understand children and teenagers with attention problems and provide the kind of support and intervention that is crucial to kids' success. Presented in a concise, easy-to-read checklist format, the book is packed with practical advice and information on a wide range of topics, including what we do and don't know about ADHD, probable causes, critical elements for school success, the most commonly prescribed medications, what children with ADHD need at home, effective behavioral strategies, how to help kids stay organized, and advocating for an ADHD child.

Sandra F. Rief, MA (San Diego, CA), is an award-winning educator and an internationally recognized authority on ADD/ADHD. She is the coauthor of How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD (978-0-7879-7295-0).
Price: $15.95

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Twelve Effective Ways to Help Your ADD/ADHD Child: Drug-Free Alternatives for Attention-Deficit Disorders

A parent's guide to effective techniques for combating the difficulties faced in raising a child with ADD/ADHD.

Affecting approximately five percent of the school-age population, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)/Attention Deficit Hyper-activity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common behavioral disorder in children. In her book, Laura Stevens offers a series of alternatives to the often-prescribed drugs, which have potential negative side effects.

Helping a child with ADD/ADHD can be a frustrating process that requires an understanding of the various biochemical and nutritional factors involved. This comprehensive guide offers the information parents need to recognize these factors. Included also are dietary suggestions and tips for avoiding allergens.
Price: $16.00

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November 27, 2010

ADD/ADHD Drug Free: Natural Alternatives and Practical Exercises to Help Your Child Focus

Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) are among the most misunderstood problems facing young children today. Drugs like Ritalin and Cylert are traditionally prescribed to treat these disorders, but their use is controversial. While many children have been helped by these medications, at best, pills only temporarily improve symptoms. Some­times they don't work at all, and they can come with disturbing side effects such as weight loss, insomnia, and may even slow growth in younger children. ADD/ADHD Drug Free gives frustrated parents a long-awaited natural alternative. The first book to feature enjoyable, practical activities for children that will help them cope with their disorder by strengthening brain functioning, this life-changing guide shows parents, teachers, and counselors how they can improve learning and behavior effectively and without medication. Timely and thoroughly researched, this guide will help thousands of children become more focused and more successful in school and in life, without jeopardizing their health.
Price: $15.00

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November 26, 2010

Ritalin is Not the Answer Action Guide: An Interactive Companion to the Bestselling Drug-Free ADD/ADHD Parenting Program

Since 1999, parents and teachers have relied on Dr. David Stein's groundbreaking book Ritalin Is Not the Answer as a resource to help them work with hyperactive children who have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Now the same principles and tools of the acclaimed Caregivers' Skill Program that Dr. Stein outlined in Ritalin Is Not the Answer are present in this easy-to-use companion workbook. Filled with self-tests, specific step-by-step guidelines, checklists, and exercises, Ritalin Is Not the Answer Action Guide offers a healthy, comprehensive behavioral program that has been proven to work!
Price: $19.95

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November 24, 2010

The Everything Parent's Guide To Children With ADD/ADHD: A Reassuring Guide To Getting The Right Diagnosis, Understanding Treatments, And Helping Your Child Focus (Everything: Parenting and Family)

Is your child:
Easily distracted?
Finding listening and concentrating difficult?
Unable to complete assignments?
If this describes your child, he could be one of the nearly 2 million children in America with ADD/ADHD. If you're looking for the facts about how this disorder may affect your child, it's hard to know where to turn. The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with ADD/ADHD, written by child psychologist Linda Sonna, gives you the clear answers and accurate information about the signs, symptoms, and treatments of this disorder that you need.
The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with ADD/ADHD helps you:





  • Learn the differences and similarities between ADD and ADHD






  • Obtain and understand the diagnosis






  • Weigh the pros and cons of medication






  • Find the right treatment






  • Discipline your child effectively






  • Get your child to focus at school and at home






  • Stay positive, and encourage your child with love and support Chock-full of the professional, easy-to-read advice and information your child needs to succeed, The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with ADD/ADHD is the valuable one-stop resource you've been looking for.
    Price: $14.95

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