You And Your A.d.d. Child How To Understand And Help Kids With Attention Deficit Disorder

by Paul Warren, Jody Capehart M.Ed.

Dr. Paul Warren and Jody Capeheart tackle the intricate issues and concerns concerning Attention Deficit Disorder within You & Your A.D.D. Child. A behavioral pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist, Dr. Paul Warren is an expert in child and adolescent issues. Jody Capehert is an educator with more than twenty-five years of experience in public and private schools. Issues tackled within this book figuring out just what ADD is, evaluating the condition, when and how medical treatment should be used, alternative options, and how to deal with the ADD child in various functions and settings. The text is a healthy mix of practical application along with medical jargon.

245 pages, Paperback

First published August 25, 1995

Reviews

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son's specialist highly recommended this to us and I loved it. The tone was authoritative but not pretentious. As an unexpected bonus, it wasn't just based on steril, clinical over-my-head mumbo jumbo, made accessible for the non-PHD. This book included a spiritual approach which really gave me hope that maybe I'm not doing everything wrong after all. And it was so refreshing to hear that spritual nurturing is not only advisable but essnetial for the ADD child. It also addressed issues that I had never considered before, such as learning style and environment. But now that I know these things can have a huge impact on how an ADD child deals with the world, I hope it will be easier for me to change how I deal with him as I learn to help him cope. I would recommend it to any parent with an ADD child and to any educater.

note: since this is edition is a little older, the section on types of medications is outdated.

Still, I thought it was fabulous. Solid 5 stars.

[Heidi Holford · Rating 1 out of 5]

Capeheart appears to be completely bought in to the institutional education model. As a homeschooling parent, I found her absolute dismissal of homeschooling as a long term, viable option for children with disabilities to be short-sighted and ignorant.