attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

Discusses children with the inability to focus or concentrate and offers a treatment plan.

Question and answer format discussing attention-deficit disorder, covering both children and adults and offering management tips.

Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.

Presents over one hundred informational lists on attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, covering diagnosis and treatment, management of behavior problems, instructional strategies, homework, and other related topics.

Offers school-based professionals a detailed overview of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, its symptoms, treatments, and challenges and provides effective strategies to help students with ADHD thrive in the classroom.

Offers advice on how to diagnose Attention Deficit Disorder; discusses the strengths that often accompany the learning disorder; and describes teaching tools that may be effective in helping ADD children realize their potential.

Offers tools--including facts, activities, and reproducible pages--for helping children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder communicate and develop goals and coping skills.

Contains suggestions and strategies for helping the ADHD child cope with the daily challenges of life.

Offers parents practical advice on how they can help their child improve their concentration and become less distracted in school and at home, presenting a ten-day program that will help inattentive children adapt and thrive.