Life Success For Children With Learning Disabilities: A Parent Guide is a great free resource for parents of children with ADD and LD. You can read it online or download it as a free ebook.
While it’s designed for children with ADD, adults will find it useful too.
This guide is based on over 20 years of research conducted by the Frostig Center in Pasadena, California. The research traced the lives of individuals with learning disabilities in an attempt to identify factors that predicted successful life outcomes. The guide has been developed by Dr. Marshall H. Raskind, Dr. Roberta J. Goldberg, along with research associates Dr. Eleanor L. Higgins and Dr. Kenneth L. Herman.
Here are some of the topics covered.
What Are The Success Attributes?
Self-Awareness
Proactivity
Perseverance
Goal-Setting
Presence and Use of Support Systems
Emotional Coping Strategies
How Can A Child Develop Success Attributes?
Self-Awareness
Proactivity
Perseverance
Goal-Setting
Presence and Use of Support Systems
Emotional Coping Strategies
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Thanks Pete for your new website design. Works great. Regarding ADD Awareness, would it be possible to have your website included in CHADD’s newletters, etc. across the country? I’m sure there are many Adult ADDers in Canada who may not know about your excellent and thorough website and could benefit from its content. Not to mention the value of increasing awareness of ADD in adult world, workplace and home.
xtrabatries
Most of us are aware of the tremendous amount of work and dedication to Adult ADD that Pete puts forth each and every day. For those who participated in the TechVibes Conference, his efforts were exemplary from early, early morning until shutdown at 6:30 PM. His inspiration and leadership were great!.
What is not known is that Pete funds all of his efforts himself, from all the paper and ink that he uses, books, transportation, attending other ADD related events and seminars as well as a myriad of other expenses.
Pete is not a wealthy individual whose hobby is being involved in the ADD community. He is one of most of us who have day to day lives with bills and other issues to deal with. What he does do is dedicate disposable (?) income is to assist us and others with ADD. This is not a demand or even a request for financial assistance for his ADD-related, out-of-pocket expenses. it is a suggestion that those who can, make a donation or two once in a while to assist with our group’s expenses. Remember too that there are no dues to pay, and Pete’s time and dedication are donated by himself.
There is a way to make any donations tax-deductable. I will be posting how this may be done shortly. I would welcome any suggestions or comments on this or any other ADD-related issues either on theis website or by e-mail.
xtrabatries
1. Thanks xtrabatries,
I’m glad you like it. That’s a good idea, I’ve been meaning to do so for a while but haven’t gotten around to it. I hope to do so soon.
2. Thanks for the complements xtrabatries.
Actually it’s not all from my wallet, some of it is from donations to the group and it looks like CHADD Van. is going to be pitching in to help. The income I do use is not really that disposable but I’m still disposing:)
There is no way this event would have happened if I didn’t get a lot of help from the volunteers from the members of the Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group who participated, i.e., John, Jeff, Patrick, Christine, Peggy and Ramona.
It would be helpful if we did have more donations to the group it will allow this type of awareness building to happen more often. Many of us in the Adult ADD support group weren’t diagnosed until later in life. Our lives may have been very different if we or our family or doctors had truly known about ADD early and identified it in ourselves and provided treatment. Doing these awareness campaigns allows us to help other people from waiting as long as we did to get diagnosed and properly treated.
How would your life be different if you or someone who knew you well had found out about ADD from such an awareness campaign 10 or 20 years ago and got you to get diagnosed and treated back then?
Pete