Sandra Rief presents proven and effective strategies and accommodations to help students with ADHD, learning disabilities and other related disorders to be successful in classroom settings. ADHD & LD: Powerful Teaching Strategies and Accommodations specifically illustrates how educators can greatly assist students with attentional, behavioral, and learning challenges within their classrooms using these effective techniques. Whether you are a teacher or school administrator, a staff development specialist or trainer, this new video provides you with a powerful tool for meeting the challenges of students with ADHD and LD in general education environments.

Intricate Minds III: Understanding Elementary School Classmates Who Think Differently. Coulter, DVD, (17 minutes), $33.95

This video is an elementary school version of the highly successful Intricate Minds programme designed for middle and high school students. It includes interviews with boys and girls aged 8 through 12 who describe what it’s like to have conditions that make them act differently at school. Intricate Minds III can help classmates avoid the trap of ignoring or teasing kids who have trouble fitting in. Kids who understand the reasons for different student behaviours are much more likely to accept them socially and include them in activities.

A successful social life is immeasurably important to a child's happiness, health, and development. For more than thirty years, Richard Lavoie has lived with and taught learning disabled children. His bestselling PBS videos, including How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Workshop, and his sellout lectures and workshops have made him one of the most popular and respected experts in the field. At last, Rick's pioneering techniques for helping children achieve a happy and successful social life are available in book form. It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend offers practical strategies to help learning disabled children ages six through seventeen navigate the treacherous social waters of their school, home, and community.

More on Rick Lavoie's video material

Misunderstood Minds: Searching for Success in School.  PBS DVD, $21.50 (DVD format, 90 minutes)

Misunderstood Minds is a deeply moving and personal look into the lives of five children and their families as they deal with the puzzling mysteries presented by their children’s unique learning differences. As many as one in five families are coping with children who struggle to learn. Many of these children don't fit any clinical diagnosis, but for some reason, they aren't learning. Though these children may be suffering from debilitating learning problems, they are often mistakenly called "lazy" or "stupid" by teachers, classmates, and even by their families.

Learning specialists now believe that each mind works differently and has its own unique strengths and weaknesses. Misunderstood Minds illustrates the emerging view that specific identification and customized management of learning problems is the key to success for the millions of children struggling in school. Misunderstood Minds features leading experts in the field of learning problems, including Mel Levine, G. Reid Lyon, Edward Hallowell and Richard Lavoie.

The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child. Richard Lavoie, Book $18.99; DVD $52.95 (90 minutes)

Motivation is the key to learning. But very few parents and teachers have an effective arsenal of techniques at their disposal. Acclaimed author Rick Lavoie arms all those who deal with children with proven, effective tools and strategies they can use to encourage any child to learn and achieve success. Lavoie explores motivational styles, presenting proven techniques, strategies, and scripts that can be used in the classroom and at home to break through a child's apathy and discouragement and inspire him/her to succeed and achieve. Along the way, Lavoie explodes some common myths about motivation: for instance, he demonstrates that rewards, punishment, and competition are not effective motivational tools. He gives specific advice throughout for parents and teachers of children with learning disabilities and provides detailed instructions for how to create a motivated classroom.

Strategies for Organization: Preparing for Homework and the Real World. Michelle Garcia Winner, $67.95 (DVD & Handout Booklet)

This 3.5 hour DVD and handout booklet features the highlights of Michelle's popular all day workshop on this same topic … The primary focus of this workshop is on laying out 10 steps of organization students need to engage in to build successful study systems. The workshop also introduces concepts to better understand what type of organizational problems students have (static versus dynamic), while encouraging us to consider whether our own approach is product or process oriented.”

A handout booklet comes with every DVD, providing concrete examples of worksheets which can be used to teach more specific organizational concept. This DVD is appropriate for parents, regular education teachers, special education teachers, SLP's, OT's, paraprofessionals, administrators and anyone else who helps all students to learn to cope in the real world.