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New Learning Resource for ADHD Children Now Available

August 02, 2012   admin

New Learning Resource for ADHD Children Now Available
Amazing Grades, Pat Wyman’s Compilation of learning experts is now available at Amazon.com
Here’s a description….
Amazing Grades is a worldwide goodwill book with 101 best-selling authors and experts, from 13 countries around the world, sharing their strategies for getting better grades faster.
It is the result of a year’s collaboration by those 101 authors and is the first book ever to include 3 learning style strategies so that help students master the information in their own style and improve their grades faster. There are video strategies, (scan tags which include related videos); auditory strategies (all authors read their chapters aloud) and kinesthetic strategies so that students can interact with the material in the book.
In addition, the book contains life skills strategies… Read the rest in all areas that affect student achievement as well as learning strategies that outline specifics on:
How to decrease study time by at least half by using picture maps
How to get motivated in 5 minutes or less
How to get rid of learning roadblocks using these 5 specifics
How to read faster than you ever thought possible
How to handle any special learning differences such ADHD
How

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Medications for ADHD: Dangers of Addiction, Misuse and Abuse

July 10, 2012   admin

Medications for ADHD: Dangers of Addiction, Misuse and Abuse
Many readers have recently asked what happens when a child or adult who is not ADHD takes a drug for ADHD.  Most were concerned about the stimulant ADHD drugs such as methamphetamine or mixed salts amphetamines.
It’s easy to understand their concern as many news print and broadcast articles have discussed the current epidemic of ADHD stimulant medication misuse and overuse.
In fact, many cities have a big problem with women and men who use drugs like Adderall to lose weight or provide bursts of energy and stay awake for many hours at a time and college and high school students who use the same or a similar drug to help study for exams and improver grades. In some of these cities, users actually pay to attend parties or lectures where they learn how to fake the symptoms of ADHD in order to legally obtain ADHD drugs or how to buy or swap them with those who students who really have ADHD..
However, it seems the majority of these questions came about as a result of parents or spouses discovering their child or other loved one was taking a drug … Read the rest

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How to Diagnose and Treat Sleep Problems that cause ADHD Behavior

June 12, 2012   admin

How to Diagnose and Treat Sleep Problems that cause ADHD Behavior
Problems sleeping have caused many kids and adults to be wrongfully labeled because of misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Recently, many news and research articles have popped up confirming what behavior specialists have “known” for years; children and adults who have problems sleeping are more likely to have behavior problems such as ADHD.
It just seems it took a long time for everyone else to come to grips with the association between a “good night’s sleep” and normal or appropriate behavior. I considered the quality and quantity of sleep to be such a big part of a child’s or adult’s ability to function the next day; I dedicated an entire chapter to the topic in Mistaken for ADHD.
In my last article; Problems sleeping cause ADHD Behavior in Children and Adults, we discussed how any “thing”; medical or otherwise, that caused a child or adult to have problems sleeping could also cause signs and symptoms of ADHD.
As you’re sure to remember, ten year-old Leslie was a perfect example of how a child could be misdiagnosed with ADHD… Read the rest-when in fact suffering from disordered sleep.
Disorders of

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Problems sleeping cause ADHD Behavior in Children and Adults

June 07, 2012   admin

Problems sleeping cause ADHD Behavior in Children and Adults
Any “thing” that causes a problem sleeping can also cause a child or an adult to have signs and symptoms of ADHD.
If you take a moment to think about it, it only makes sense that sleep disorders-regardless of the cause-can cause behavior often misdiagnosed as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Ten year-old Leslie was a perfect example of a child misdiagnosed with ADHD-who in fact was suffering disordered sleep.
Leslie just seemed to be a tired, sleepy little girl when she first showed up in my office with her mom. Her teacher had urged her parents to have Leslie evaluated for ADHD, because “She had so many symptoms of ADHD behavior.”
Ironically, her symptoms were poor concentration, poor attention span, and failure to complete assignments… Read the rest, falling asleep in class, failing grades, and acting as if she was in a daze. She was definitely not hyperactive and reportedly rarely impulsive. Several of these are indeed symptoms of ADHD, but not enough to make a true diagnosis. That’s what made Leslie’s behavior so confusing to her parents. She was tired….all the time, not just at school.
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Children with ADHD at Risk for Bullying and Self Harm

May 29, 2012   admin

Children with ADHD at Risk for Bullying and Self Harm
ADHD experts have long known that children, teens and adults with ADHD are at increased risk for bullying at school, work and even at home.
Unfortunately, a recent study showed children bullied by peers “when they are younger are up to three times more likely to harm themselves in adolescence.”
Researchers followed 1,116 sets of twins from 1994 to 1995 until their twelfth birthday and discovered almost 8% of those who were victims of frequent bullying deliberated tried to harm themselves. In contrast, only 2% of those who were not bullied tried self-harming behaviors.
Observed self-harming behaviors included:

Attempted suicide by strangulation
Cutting arms
Biting body parts
Banging their head against walls
And pulling out clumps of hair.

In our practice, we have seen kids who deliberated excessively tattooed parts of their body… Read the rest as a result of the stress of being bullying. One teenage girl told me she had done so in hopes her tormentors would leave her alone because they would think she was crazy.
Another bully-abused teen in our practice explained he tattooed his arms to keep from “slicing and dicing them with my knife.”  His tattoos

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Cure ADHD Behavior without using Drugs

May 23, 2012   admin

Cure ADHD Behavior without using Drugs
ADHD behavior can be cured or treated without using drugs or medications for ADHD or behavioral problems.
Avoiding medications for treating ADHD… Read the rest and other behavior disorders now seems to be a hot topic on both parent’s and other healthcare professional’s minds.
Why you ask? I believe it’s because so much research is now available showing ADHD behavior can actually be caused by so many things that clearly are not ADHD. In addition, most of us have now heard the recent news of statistics that show as many as 1 in 5 US children will be diagnosed as ADHD by the end of this year.
If one in five children in the US is diagnosed as ADHD, nearly 14 million kids will be treated with either ADHD drugs or behavioral therapy by the end of this year. Of those, we expect between 5 and 7 million will have been misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
That’s scary and in fact is scaring so many parents of children treated with medications for ADHD that they are now asking questions – questions they never asked before. Yes, with more and better information available, parents like yourself; are

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ADHD Impulsive Behavior and Risk of the Choking Game

April 24, 2012   admin

ADHD impulsive behavior increases the risk of teens playing the choking game and what parents and teachers should watch for….
Impulsivity is one of the key symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder… Read the rest as most of us who deal with children and teens with ADHD can readily attest.
Sometimes, ADHD impulsive behavior can be of great benefit both for the person who is ADHD and for others around him or her. It’s often said that without impulsivity the world would have no great military leaders, no outstanding sports heroes, no successful entrepreneurs and maybe even a lot fewer doctors. 
The reason is simple: Most of the great discoveries, most of the best inventions, most military endeavors, and most of the world’s most successful surgeons have one trait in common. They are risk takers and on top of it all, they are impulsive extreme risk takers. So, in some cases, impulsivity and risk taking behavior may benefit us all.
Unfortunately though, not all risk takers are striving for advancement or betterment. Some impulsive boys and girls are engaging in risk taking behavior just for the sake of a quick high.
The choking game played by preteens and teens is one such example of this

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