The ADD/ADHD Checklist: a Practical Reference for Parents and Teachers, 2nd Edition. Sandra Rief, $17.95

Presented in a concise, easy-to-read checklist format, THE ADD/ADHD CHECKLIST is packed with practical advice and information on a wide range of topics, including what we do and don't know about ADHD, probable causes, critical elements for school success, the most commonly prescribed medications, what children with ADHD need at home, effective behavioral strategies, how to help kids stay organized, and advocating for an ADHD child.

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.

ADHD: Living Without Brakes. Martin Kutscher, $22.95

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, $17.95

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.

ADHD: What Every Parent Needs to Know, 2nd Edition. Michael Reiff, $18.95

ADHD: WHAT EVERY PARENT NEEDS TO KNOW is a balanced guide to help you and your child meet the many challenges of ADHD. Written in clear, accessible language, this book includes the latest information on diagnosis, advocacy, and medications as well as age-appropriate guidance from preschool through adolescence.

The Adolescent and Adult Neuro-diversity Handbook: Asperger Syndrome, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Related Conditions. Sarah Hendrickx, $24.95

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.

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 Brown describes what ADD syndrome is, how it can be recognized at different ages, and how it can best be treated.

Attention Difference Disorder: How to Turn Your Child or Teen’s Differences into Strengths in 7 Simple Steps. Kenny Handelman, $18.50

In Attention Difference Disorder, Dr. Handelman combines his clinical and scientific background with a positive, strength based approach to bring you 7 simple steps to succeed with ADD.

Dr. Handelman shares that there is not always a deficit in attention with ADD, rather there are differences.  In this concise, easy to read and thorough book, you'll begin to see ADD in a completely different light. The science is combined with a practical and easy to implement approach, where the 7 steps help parents navigate the different treatments needed to help their children succeed. The 7 steps include strategies for home, school, medications as well as a thorough review of alternative treatments for ADD.

Attention Difference Disorder helps parents to understand their "Parent's ADD Journey", and provides a plan to help you to unwrap the gifts in your child’s ADD.

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, $33.95

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 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 Family ADHD Solution. Mark Bertin, $19.50

A scientific approach to maximizing your child’s attention and minimizing parental stress.

Based on the ideas presented in her book THE GIFT OF ADHD, author Lara Honos-Webb brings parents fun and positive activities to help develop and reinforce your child’s creativity, sensitivity and passion for living.

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.

The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook: the Ultimate Guide to the Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet. Pamela Compart & Dana Laake, $27.95

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, $22.95

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.

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.

The NDD Book. William Sears, $16.25

How Nutrition Deficit Disorder affects your child's learning, behavior and health and what you can do about it – without drugs.

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.

1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2 – 12, 4th Edition. Thomas Phelan, $14.95; DVD $45.95

Using behavior modification techniques, Thomas Phelan has created an easy-to-follow program for disciplining children without yelling, arguing or spanking. The revised 4th Edition has been expanded to include dozens of suggestions from readers; new chapters on ‘tweens’, technology and emotional intelligence; research and an updated list of resources.

1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 Workbook. Thomas Phelan & Tracy Lewis, $17.95

This user-friendly manual includes chapter reviews, case studies, self-evaluation questions and planning exercises to help parents get the most out of the 1-2-3 Magic program.

Organize Your ADD/ADHD Child: a Practical Guide for Parents. Cheryl Carter, $16.95

Living with ADD/ADHD can be hectic, and parenting a child with this disorder can feel like an uphill struggle when even the simplest of tasks causes havoc. This book addresses the issues of organization and time management in relation to ADD/ADHD, suggesting practical ways of organizing your child's day and turning chaos into calm. Cheryl Carter’s no-nonsense, step-by-step strategies, in combination with positive affirmations and realistic demands, will get ADD/ADHD children organized, and from A to B without a hitch.

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.

Ready for Take-Off: Preparing Your Teen with ADHD or LD for College. Theresa Maitland & Patricia Quinn, $21.95

Using college readiness surveys and handy worksheets, READY FOR TAKE-OFF helps parents promote self-determination, academic and daily living skills in your teen — skills needed to succeed in college and life beyond high school.

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.

Special Needs Kids Go Pharm-Free. Judy Converse, $20.00

At last — nutrition strategies designed to lessen dependence on prescription medications and to help your child thrive. The book’s nutrition-focused tools help minimize meds and maximize health and well-being. Covers autism, asthma, ADHD, allergies, mood disorders and learning problems.

Step by Step Help for Children with ADHD: a Self Help Manual for Parents. Cathy Laver-Bradbury, et al, $20.95

Raising a child with ADHD can be distressing and exhausting for the whole family. But given the appropriate knowledge, and the right tools, parents can intervene to manage their child's behaviour, leading to improved relationships at home and, it is hoped, a more successful time at school.

Based on research and extensive clinical experience, STEP BY STEP HELP FOR CHILDREN WITH ADHD will help families to adapt their parenting to the child, improving relationships and behaviours in the home and at play group.

Suffer the Children:  the Case against Labeling and Medicating and an Effective Alternative. Marilyn Wedge, $33.50

A persuasive rejection of mainstream child psychiatry that guides parents to understand their child's behavioral problems without stigmatizing diagnoses. Instructive, illuminating, and uplifting, SUFFER THE CHILDREN radically reframes how we as parents, as health professionals, and as a society can respond to problems of childhood in a considerate and respectful fashion.

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.

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.

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.

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.