Featuring enjoyable, practical activities that teach children how to improve behavior and improve brain function. When medications are not the answer — or when they are not enough — this book will help parents, teachers and counselors to help children become more successful at school and in everyday activities and relationships.

ADD and Your Money: a Guide to Personal Finance for Adults with Attention-Deficit Disorder.  Stephanie Sarkis & Karl Klein, $22.95

When you have attention-deficit disorder (ADD), you don't spend money like most other people. Past-due bills and impulsive spending can throw your finances into turmoil, and because these financial pitfalls are directly related to your ADD symptoms, they can seem impossible to overcome.

The good news is that it is possible to get ADD-related financial disorganization under control and begin to enjoy a more stable relationship to your money. ADD and Your Money will show you how. This friendly guide, written with your ADD in mind, includes information on everything you need to know about managing your finances and staying in control.

ADHD Across the Lifespan. Timothy Bilkey, $65.95 (Two-Disc DVD)

Through the years, children, teens and adults with ADHD will face different challenges as they work to overcome the obstacles that ADHD sometimes throws in their paths. ADHD Across the Lifespan offers concise, practical information and advice and current treatments that will help those with ADHD reach their full potential.

ADHD in Adults: What the Science Says. Russell Barkley, Kevin Murphy & Mariellen Fischer, $49.95

Providing a new perspective on ADHD in adults, this compelling book analyzes findings from two major studies directed by leading authority Russell Barkley. Groundbreaking information is presented on the significant impairments produced by the disorder across major functional domains and life activities, including educational outcomes, work, relationships, health behaviors, and mental health. Thoughtfully considering the treatment implications of these findings, the book also demonstrates that existing diagnostic criteria do not accurately reflect the way ADHD is experienced by adults, and points the way toward developing better criteria that center on executive function deficits. Accessible tables, figures, and sidebars encapsulate the study results and offer detailed descriptions of the methods used.

The ADHD Book of Lists: a Practical Guide for Helping Children and Teens with Attention Deficit Disorders. Sandra Rief, $32.95

An easy-to-read, reliable source of answers, practical strategies and tools in a convenient list format, for teachers (K-12), parents, school psychologists, counselors, medical and mental health professionals. A comprehensive encyclopedia of practical information for finding everything you want to know about ADHD, from diagnosis to intervention.

ADHD Comorbidities: Handbook for ADHD Complications in Children and Adults. Edited by Thomas Brown, $114.50

ADHD Comorbidities covers the multiple ways in which ADHD is complicated by other psychiatric and learning disorders in both children and adults. It features comprehensive, research-based information on the condition and its full range of comorbidities, from mood disorders to developmental coordination disorder. The authors summarize in accessible language what is currently known about ADHD and its comorbidities from preschool age to adulthood, describing how ADHD produces different profiles at different stages of development.

ADHD: Living Without Brakes. Martin Kutscher, $20.95

Author Martin Kutscher, a pediatric neurologist, describes the spectrum of ADHD, the concurrent symptoms, and common difficulties that parents face. The book focuses on solutions, based around four rules: keeping it positive, keeping it calm, keeping it organized and keep doing rules one to three. Realistic and optimistic, this book is the ideal source of information and advice for parents and professionals who are trying to keep up with children who are living without brakes.

AD/HD Parenting Handbook: Practical Advice for Parents from Parents, 2nd Edition. Colleen Alexander-Roberts, $18.50

A compilation of practical advice and tips for handling daily activities that often prove problematic for ADHD children, such as getting ready for school, going to bed, performing chores, completing homework, and playing with other children. This revised and updated edition offers proven techniques for raising hyperactive kids without losing your cool.

The ADHD Workbook for Kids: Helping Children Gain Self-Confidence, Social Skills & Self-Control. Lawrence Shapiro, $19.95

44 simple, fun activities to teach kids how to improve attention and focus, control their emotions and to communicate effectively with others.

The Adolescent and Adult Neuro-diversity Handbook: Asperger Syndrome, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Related Conditions. Sarah Hendrickx, $19.95

The Adolescent and Adult Neuro-Diversity Handbook is a handy first-reference point guide to the full range of developmental conditions as they affect adolescents and adults. Each chapter focuses on a different condition, describing its history, causes and characteristics, its implications for the individual, diagnosis and assessment, treatments and approaches, and strategies for providing support and self-support. A wide range of conditions are covered, including Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD, OCD, Tourette's and Anxiety Disorders.

Answers to Distraction, Revised Edition. Edward Hallowell & John Ratey, $19.95

The book that answers your questions about ADD, from the bestselling authors of Driven to Distraction.

Ants in Their Pants: Teaching Children Who Must Move to Learn. Aerial Cross, $37.50

Extra busy children — children who must move to learn — demand non-traditional environments and teaching methods. By focusing on the kinesthetic nature of these children this practical, hands-on resource is filled with transition ideas, sensory-play activities, advice and inspiration for teachers, caregivers and parents.

A new understanding of ADD, along with practical information on how to recognize and treat the disorder … In this up-to-date and clearly written book, a leading expert offers a new way of understanding ADD. Drawing on recent findings in neuroscience and a rich variety of case histories from his clinical practice, Dr. Thomas E. Brown describes what ADD syndrome is, how it can be recognized at different ages, and how it can best be treated.

The revised and expanded third edition of this user-friendly workbook provides a master set of the assessment and treatment forms, questionnaires, and handouts recommended by Barkley in the third edition of the Handbook. Formatted for easy photocopying, many of these materials are available from no other source. Featured are interview forms and rating scales for use with parents, teachers, and adult clients; helpful checklists and fact sheets; daily school report cards for monitoring academic progress; and more, including nine new handouts.

Attention Girls! A Guide to Learn All About Your AD/HD. Patricia Quinn, $14.95 (ages 8-13)

Meet other girls with AD/HD just like you and you’ll learn lots of ways to take charge of your life — at home and at school!

The Autism & ADHD Diet. Barrie Silberberg, $15.99

This simple step-by-step guide to living gluten and casein free is packed with parent-tested tips and answers to questions about how to make the GFCF diet work best for your family.

Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple, 2nd Edition. John Preston, John O'Neal & Mary Talaga, $23.95

Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple offers parents and professionals up-to-date information on medications for the treatment of children and teens suffering from psychological disorders. Fully revised and updated, this second edition includes new research and information on psychoactive medications for autism, ADHD, child-onset bipolar disorder and a variety of other common psychological conditions. Also included are fact sheets that clearly delineate frequently prescribed medications for each disorder along with medication side effects and signs of toxicity.

Working with students diagnosed with ADHD presents unique challenges for educators. This practical resource provides strategies for helping these children to participate in the classroom experience and develop successful learning experiences.

College Success for Students with Learning Disabilities. Cynthia Simpson & Vicky Spencer, $20.95

Strategies and tips for making the most out of your college experience.

Creative Therapy for Children with Autism, ADD and Asperger’s: Using Artistic Creativity to Reach, Teach and Touch Our Children. Janet Tubbs, $18.95

Activities, exercises and games to reduce hyperactivity, increase focus, decrease anger, develop fine motor skills and improve verbal skills.

Disconnected Kids: the Groundbreaking Brain Balance Program for Children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and Other Neurological Disorders. Robert Melillo, $20.00

Dr. Robert Melillo brings a new understanding to the cause of autism, Asperger's syndrome, ADHD, dyslexia, and obsessive compulsive disorder with his revolutionary program. It has achieved fully documented results that have dramatically improved the quality of life for children and their families in every aspect: behavioral, emotional, academic, and social. Disconnected Kids shows parents how to use this drug-free approach at home, including:

• Fully customizable exercises that target physical, sensory and academic performance
• A behavior modification plan
• Advice for identifying food sensitivities that play a hidden role
• A follow-up program that helps to ensure lasting results

Disorganized Children: a Guide for Parents and Professionals. Edited by Samuel Stein & Uttom Chowdhury, $27.95

Disorganized children may display a range of behaviours symptomatic of, for example, ADHD, autism and conduct disorders, but they often fail to meet all the criteria for a clear diagnosis. In this book, psychiatrists, speech, family and occupational therapists and neurodevelopment specialists present a range of behavioural and psychological strategies to help disorganized children improve concentration and performance in the classroom and deal with a variety of behaviour and social interaction difficulties … The combination of information, exercises and case studies makes this a valuable tool for use by parents, health care and teaching professionals, and the authors provide an insight into the mind of disorganized children and practical guidance on how best to help them achieve their full potential.

The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks & Talents.  Nancy Ratey, $16.95

Learn to clear the hurdles of daily living with confidence and success. Nancy Ratey’s strategies will help you remain focused, stay on rack and get what you want from work your life.

Does Everyone Have ADHD? A Teen’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment. Christine Petersen, $23.95

Author Christine Petersen provides young readers with a comprehensive look at ADHD — from diagnosis and treatment to the impact on ADHD has on school, social and family life.

Eager Eddy: the World’s Most Active Dude. Jill Bobula & Katherine Bobula, illustrated by Rob Hall, $16.95

Eager Eddy is the story of a young boy who is blessed with enormous amounts of energy. This book describes what Eddy's life is like and how he, his friends and family have grown to live and enjoy his seemingly boundless source of energy. Eddy takes you along and explains what his life is like at home and at school.

80HD: a Child’s Perspective on ADHD. Trish Wood, $11.99 (ages 6-10)

Parker has ADHD and struggles to make sense of it all. With the help of his family, teachers and doctor Parker learns to manage his “80HD”.

Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: a Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention, Second Edition. Peg Dawson & Richard Guare, $38.95

Concise and practitioner friendly, this bestselling guide has helped put executive skills on the map for school-based clinicians and educators. The book explains how these critical cognitive processes develop and why they play such a key role in children's behavior and school performance. Provided are step-by-step guidelines and many practical tools to promote executive skill development by implementing environmental modifications, individualized instruction, coaching, and whole-class interventions. In a large-size format with convenient lay-flat binding, the book includes more than two dozen reproducible assessment tools, checklists, and planning sheets.

The Everything Health Guide to Adult ADD/ADHD. Carole Jacobs & Isadore Wendel, $17.99

Expert advice to help you find the diagnosis, evaluation, treatment and support you need.

The Everything Parent’s Guide to ADHD in Children. Carole Jacobs & Isadore Wendel, $17.99

A practical and reassuring guide to getting the right diagnosis, understanding treatments and helping your child.

The games, puzzles, activities, articles, and resources in this exciting collection from the newsletter Brakes offer more than 50 ways for kids to handle the challenges of ADHD. Along with practical tips for solving problems and getting organized, boys and girls can also read about real kids like themselves. And they can discover a wealth of ideas that make life more manageable—and more fun!

Find a Way or Make a Way: Checklists of Helpful Accommodations for Students with ADHD, Executive Dysfunctions, Mood Disorders, Tourette's Syndrome, OCD and Other Neurological Challenges. Leslie Packer, $23.95

Find a Way or Make a Way is designed to provide lots of practical ideas to incorporate into a student's plan, with sections on accommodations for homework, tests, sleep problems, and handwriting problems.

Your guide to dealing with the everyday challenges of life with ADD—filled with tools and strategies you can use for a lifetime!

Forms for Helping the ADHD Child. Lawrence Shapiro, $47.95

Forms, charts, and checklists for treating children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder cover a wide range of approaches. Includes effective aids for assessing, treating, and monitoring the progress of the ADHD child.

Based on the concept of visual thinking and filled with tips on how to keep the body at its highest functioning level, this program helps AD/HD sufferers become successful in their everyday lives. The authors share simple yet powerful techniques to develop and harness the strengths of the visual right brain, while at the same time demonstrating how treatment for AD/HD can maximize success.

The Gift of Adult ADD helps adults with ADD focus on the positive traits of this condition and offers effective strategies for managing some of the challenges that often come with the different set of perspectives that are shared by people with ADHD.

"If you're a teen girl with AD/HD (or maybe you think you might have AD/HD) then this book is for you! Guaranteed not to be boring, The Girl's Guide to AD/HD is full of interactive quizzes, helpful tips, fun facts, whimsical illustrations and more, including:

• What AD/HD is like for girls
• How the AD/HD brain works
• How adolescence impacts AD/HD
• How counseling, medication and coaching help
• How to deal with emotions from anger to anxiety to depression
• What advantages there are to having AD/HD
• How to cope with school and homework
• How to get along with family and friends

Healing Young Brains — the Neurofeedback Solution: Drug-Free Treatment for Childhood Disorders, Including Autism, ADHD, Depression, and Anxiety. Robert Hill & Eduardo Castro, $18.95

Healing Young Brains is a parent’s guide to treating their children with neurofeedback as an alternative to drugs. Neurofeedback is a form of brainwave feedback that can help train a child's brain to overcome slow brainwave activity and increase and maintain its speed permanently. Quick, noninvasive and cost effective, neurofeedback is effective without any of the side effects associated with drugs commonly used to such childhood disorders as autism, ADHD, dyslexia, sleep disorders, and emotional problems.

Helping Kids and Teens with ADHD in School. Joanne Steer & Kate Horstmann, $41.95

A practical workbook for classroom support, managing transitions, develop organizational skills, and overcoming the challenges young people with ADHD present in school settings.

How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD: Practical Techniques, Strategies and Interventions, 2nd Edition. Sandra Rief, $35.99, Grades K-12

This is the completely revised and updated edition of a book that has served for over a decade as the definitive resource for teachers, school professionals, parents and clinicians. 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

The Impulse Control Game™. Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Grades 2 – 7)

The Impulse Control Game™ is an educational and therapeutic board game designed to help young people with ADD, ADHD, and other conditions involving impulse control problems. The game box includes a teacher booklet with complete lesson plans, suggested one-on-one coaching activities, a list of activities to give to parents that will help them reinforce the skills learned in the game, references to the studies that demonstrate the efficacy of the skills in the game, and suggestions for further reading.

The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook: the Ultimate Guide to the Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet. Pamela Compart & Dana Laake, $28.50

The best “kid-friendly” recipes and guide to the gluten-free milk-free diet for ADHD and Autism. What it is. Why it works. How to do it.

Late, Lost, and Unprepared: a Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning. Joyce Cooper-Kahn & Laurie Dietzel, $24.95

Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help us manage our lives and be successful. Children with weak executive skills, despite their best intentions, often do their homework but forget to turn it in, wait until the last minute to start a project, lose things, or have a room that looks like a dump! The good news is that parents can do a lot to support and train their children to manage these frustrating and stressful weaknesses.

Late, Lost, and Unprepared is a must-have book for parents of children from primary school through high school who struggle with:

• Impulse Control (taking turns, interrupting others, running off)
• Cognitive Flexibility (adapting to new situations, transitions, handling frustrations)
• Initiation (starting homework, chores, and major projects)
• Working Memory (following directions, note-taking, reading and retaining info)
• Planning & Organizing (completing and turning in homework, juggling schedules)
• Self-monitoring (making careless errors, staying on topic, getting into trouble but not understanding why)

Written by clinical psychologists, Late, Lost, and Unprepared emphasizes the need for a two-pronged approach to intervention: 1) helping the child to manage demands in the short run, and 2) building independent skills for long-term self-management. Full of encouragement and practical strategies, the book’s organization makes it easy to grasp concepts quickly and get started.

Making the Grade with ADD: a Student’s Guide to Succeeding in College with Attention Deficit Disorder. Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, $21.95

In college, independence, fun activities, and new friendships abound. But if you have attention deficit disorder (ADD), these new opportunities also present new challenges. To adjust to college life, you'll need to learn to harness your disorder in new ways in order to plan your time effectively, become a successful student, make friends, and take advantage of everything campus life has to offer.

Mastering Your Adult ADHD: a Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program — Therapist Guide. Steven Safren, Carol Perlman, Susan Sprich & Michael Otto, $46.95

Mastering Your Adult ADHD: a Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program — Client Workbook. Steven Safren, Carol Perlman, Susan Sprich & Michael Otto, $39.50

• Offers step-by-step instructions for helping your client learn proven strategies for managing ADHD symptoms
• Client workbook includes worksheets, charts to help your client monitor your progress
• Research-backed treatment with demonstrated effectiveness

ADHD in adulthood is a prevalent and impairing disorder. While medications have been effective in treating adult ADHD, the majority of individuals treated with medications have residual symptoms that require additional skills and symptom management strategies. Used in conjunction with the corresponding client workbook, this therapist guide offers effective treatment strategies that follow an empirically-supported treatment approach. It provides clinicians with effective means of teaching clients skills that have been scientifically tested and shown to help adults cope with ADHD. The step-by-step, session-by-session descriptions are a practical resource for therapists who deliver the treatment to clients with ADHD. Together, the therapist guide and client workbook contain all of the information and materials necessary to delivery this treatment in the context of individual outpatient cognitive behavioral therapy.

Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health. Rick Mayes, Catherine Bagwell & Jennifer Erkulwater, $57.50

Why and how did ADHD become the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder among children and adolescents, as well as one of the most controversial? Rick Mayes and his coauthors argue that a unique alignment of social and economic trends and incentives converged in the early 1990s with greater scientific knowledge to make ADHD the most prevalent pediatric mental disorder.

Medicating Children integrates analyses of the clinical, political, historical, educational, social, economic, and legal aspects of ADHD and stimulant pharmacotherapy. Thus, it will be invaluable to educators, clinicians, parents, and policymakers, all of whom are trying to determine what is in the best interest of millions of children.

Medicating Young Minds: How to Know If Psychiatric Drugs Will Help or Hurt Your Child. Glen Elliott, M.D., $32.95

As an international expert on childhood psychiatric disorders and leading researcher on the effects of psychiatric drugs on kids, Dr. Glen Elliott believes that doctors and teachers are too quick to recommend medication for children and youth. Medicating Young Minds tells parents everything they need to know — from which questions to ask, to the kind of treatment they deserve to get from a concerned doctor — before committing their child to medication. Parents do have a choice, says Dr. Elliott, and this book empowers them to make their own decisions with confidence.

Moms with ADD: a Self-Help Manual. Christine Adamec, $16.50

Full of anecdotes, quotations, practical coping strategies and helpful suggestions, Moms with ADD enables readers to recognize ADD and optimize their parenting skills. Designed to be useful to women who are struggling with the stereotype of the "perfect" mother, this book celebrates the positives of having ADD creativity, spontaneity and sensitivity.

More Attention, Less Deficit. Ari Tuckerman, $27.95

Practical strategies and support for managing your ADHD — from time management and organizational skills to improving home life, relationships and your career.

My Brain Needs Glasses: Living with Hyperactivity. Annick Vincent, $17.95

Mon cerveau a besoin de lunettes: vivre avec l'hyperactivité. Annick Vincent, $17.95

Filled with instructive information, this imaginary journal of eight-year-old Tom will help young people develop an understanding of what AD/HD is and how to overcome its obstacles. Funny and imaginative, My Brain Needs Glasses is an effective guide to understanding the reality of living with AD/HD.

My Brain STILL Needs Glasses: ADHD in Adults. Anick Vincent, $22.95

A practical and friendly guide for adults living with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

No Mind Left Behind: Understanding and Fostering Executive Control—The Eight Essential Brain Skills Every Child Needs to Thrive. Adam Cox, $17.50

No Mind Left Behind is a program for helping children master the eight essential cognitive skills that are critical for success in life in work:

• Taking initiative • Screening out distractions • Organizing • Thinking flexibly

• Planning • Regulating emotions • Self-monitoring • Using memory effectively

Using case studies and anecdotes, Dr. Cox presents a comprehensive and practical plan for parents. The book addresses special-needs children as well as neurotypical children, and includes practical suggestions for parents and educators.

100 Questions & Answers about Your Child’s Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Ruth Nass & Fern Leventhal, $17.50

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is a medical disorder that can cause behavioral and psychological problems. This complex condition can be confusing for children and profoundly frustrating for parents. Discussing the medical and psycho-social aspects of the condition, Dr. Ruth Nass and Dr. Fern Leventhal provide an authoritative yet compassionate explanation of the ins and outs of treating this condition and teaching your child strategies for living and learning with ADHD.

101 School Success Tools for Students with ADHD. Jacqueline Ideman, Stephan Silverman & Sue Jeweler, $19.95

101 School Success Tools for Students with ADHD provides materials and the guidance necessary to assist teachers and parents as they empower students with ADHD to become successful learners.

Overcoming ADHD: Helping Your Child Become Calm, Engaged and Focused – Without a Pill. Stanley Greenspan & Jacob Greenspan, $31.95

This informative guide applies Stanley Greenspan’s developmental approach to a very common disorder. In his distinctive and original view, ADHD is a set of common symptoms that arise from several different sensory, motor, and self-regulation problems. Greenspan emphasizes the role of emotion, seeking the root of the condition and rebuilding the foundations of healthy development. Overcoming ADHD steers away from the pitfalls of labeling, or of simply stamping out symptoms with medication, and demonstrates Greenspan’s abiding belief in the growth and individual potential of each child.

Preparing Students with Disabilities for College Success. Stan Shaw, Joseph Madaus & Lyman Dukes, $40.50

Enhanced with user-friendly tip boxes and illustrative vignettes, this book gives professionals comprehensive, accessible information on helping students make the transition to college and laying the critical groundwork for future employment success.

Putting on the Brakes: Understanding and Taking Control of Your ADD or ADHD, 2nd Edition. Patricia Quinn & Judith Stern, $14.50 (ages 8-13)

The essential ADD/HD resource that offers kids and their parents tips and techniques to manage attention disorders. Loaded with practical ways to improve organizational, focusing, studying and homework skills — the book gives kids with AD/HD the tools for success in and out of school. It also contains strategies for making friends, controlling emotions and being healthy.

A practical, authoritative book on an increasingly talked-about condition that affects more than 8 million American adults, Scattered Minds reveals hidden warning signs, debunks common misconceptions, and offers information on obtaining an accurate diagnosis, along with treatment options that include cutting-edge medications and proven coping strategies.

The School Counselor’s Guide to ADHD: What We Know and Do to Help Your Students. Richard Lougy, Silvia DeRuvo & David Rosenthal, $37.95

The School Counselor's Guide to ADHD covers not only principal causes, symptoms, and interventions for ADHD, but also current, detailed information on executive brain function. This comprehensive resource includes a wide range of inclusive practices that help define the multiple roles and responsibilities of school counselors.

School Success for Kids with ADHD. Stephan Silverman, Jacqueline Iseman & Sue Jeweler, $18.95

With the growing number of children diagnosed with attention problems, parents and teachers need practical advice for helping these children succeed in school. School Success for Kids with ADHD looks at the causes and types of attention deficits and how they appear in the school context. Readers learn to advocate for these students in the school environment, and how to coach students with attention deficits to success. The authors also include a brief overview of research and medical perspectives on attention deficits, strategies used by teachers of children with ADHD, and helpful tools for parents and teachers to employ.

Some Kids Just Can’t Sit Still. Sam Goldstein, illustrated by Allie DeSisto, $17.95 (ages 4-9)

Some Kids Just Can’t Sit Still offers an easy to understand, non-blaming explanation for ADHD and tools for helping children understand themselves better.

Super-Parenting for ADD: an Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child.Edward Hallowell & Peter Jensen, $18.95

Drs. Hallowell and Jensen fully understand the real and everyday challenges — both at home and at school — facing parents of an ADD child. Super-Parenting for ADD shows you how to unwrap the wonderful, surprising gifts of ADD and turn what is too often labeled a lifelong disability into lifelong strengths.

• Find the best college for you
• Build great relationships with your professors
• Make the best use of support services and accommodations
• Select and schedule courses
• Choose a major and possible career
• Get everything done…and still have time for fun!

What are ADD and ADHD? What does it mean to have ADD and ADHD? How can kids diagnosed with ADD and ADHD help themselves succeed in school, get along better at home, and form healthy, enjoyable relationships with peers? In kid-friendly language and a format that welcomes reluctant and easily distracted readers, Free Spirit’s newest survival guide helps kids know they’re not alone and offers practical strategies for taking care of oneself, modifying behavior, enjoying school, having fun, and dealing (when needed) with doctors, counselors, and medication. Includes real-life scenarios, quizzes, and a special message for parents.

Ben is having trouble concentrating in school. A trip to the doctor reveals that Ben has Attention Deficit Disorder. Written from Ben's perspective, this unique book is designed to educate classroom peers about children living with ADD.

The newly updated and expanded guide to raising a teenager with an attention deficit disorder is more comprehensive than ever. Thousands more parents can rely on Dendy's compassionately presented expertise based on the latest research and decades of her experience as a parent, teacher, school psychologist, and mental health counselor. Her book looks at key areas that make adolescence—an already challenging time of life—potentially more difficult for kids with ADD or ADHD: academics, dating, driving, socializing, and greater independence.

10 Days to a Less Distracted Child. Jeffrey Bernstein, $18.50

A fresh and practical take on handling inattentive/hyperactive children. Anecdotal examples throughout help parents understand their kids, improve focus and organization at school, and eliminate other distracted or inappropriate behaviors at home. Effective for all kinds of attention problems, this original approach to inattentive children will help parents overcome the daily battles and help build your child’s confidence, skills and self-esteem.

• Better concentration
• Sharper memory
• Richer relationships
• Improved money and time management
• Greater self-confidence

Test Success: Test-Taking and Study Strategies for All Students, Including Those with ADD and LD. Blythe Grossberg, $24.95

Test Success provides sure-fire ways to improve study strategies and test performance of students in middle school, high school, and first-year college students.

Tigers, Too: Executive Functions/Speed of Processing/Memory. Marilyn Dornbush & Sheryl Pruitt, $71.95

From the authors of Teaching the Tiger comes this practical, detailed and insightful look at executive functions, speed of processing and memory and the impact these have on the academic, behavioral and social functioning of students with ADHD, Tourette Syndrome and OCD.

20 Questions to Ask If Your Child Has ADHD. Mary Fowler, $12.95

20 Questions to Ask If Your Child Has ADHD is a great beginning book for parents trying to make sense of the ADHD diagnosis, starting from the struggles and searching for readily available guidance and information. This book ends the search for simple (not simplistic) guidance.

Understanding Controversial Therapies for Children with Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Other Learning Disabilities: a Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Lisa Kurtz, $19.95

Understanding Controversial Therapies covers a wide variety of mind-body interventions and manipulative techniques, as well as energy therapies, biologically based methods, and alternative medical systems. For each approach, the author provides a detailed description of what the treatment involves, which professionals will be working with the child, and an explanation of the rationale behind the therapy. She also offers advice on who to approach for treatment, and includes a list of recommended resources and useful contacts for further information.

Visual Perception Problems in Children with AD/HD, Autism and Other Learning Disabilities: a Guide for Parents and Professionals. Lisa A. Kurtz, $19.95

This book provides a comprehensive overview of vision problems in children with developmental disabilities such as AD/HD, autism spectrum disorders, and specific learning disabilities. Written in a very accessible style, it is appropriate for parents and professionals alike and offers non-technical explanations of how vision difficulties are screened for and advice on where to seek appropriate professional care. Lisa Kurtz outlines a range of activities for strengthening children's functional vision and perceptual skills using simple, homemade materials that are readily available in the home or classroom.

What Causes ADHD? Understanding What Goes Wrong and Why. Joel Nigg, $31.50

Synthesizing a wealth of recent neuropsychological research, this groundbreaking book focuses on the multiple pathways by which attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) develops. Joel T. Nigg marshals the best available knowledge on what is actually going on in the symptomatic child's brain and why, tracing the intersecting causal influences of genetic, neural, and environmental factors. In the process, the book confronts such enduring controversies as the validity of ADHD as a clinical construct. Specific suggestions are provided for studies that might further refine the conceptualization of the disorder, with significant potential benefits for treatment and prevention.

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life. Sari Solden, $19.95

Every year, millions of withdrawn little girls and chronically overwhelmed women go undiagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder because they don't fit the stereotypical profile: they’re not fast-talking, hyperactive, or inattentive, and they are not male. Sari Solden’s groundbreaking study reveals that ADD affects just as many women as men, and that the resulting depression, disorganization, anxiety, and underachievement are also symptoms of ADD. Newly revised and updated, the book explores treatment and counseling options and uses real-life case histories to examine the special challenges women with ADD and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) face. Included is a brand new chapter on friendship for women with ADHD. Three empowering steps — restructuring one's life, renegotiating relationships, and redefining self-image — help women take control of their lives and enjoy success on their own terms.