 Hello, Kathy, Oops! I guess it's appropriate that an issue on help for the distractible and disorganized come out a few weeks later than I'd planned. You don't have to have a child with AD/HD to be interested in help getting your child organized and focused. But if your student is a budding organization expert, you'll find many other needs addressed in this month's links section. (And send that child to my house--I have a desk they can practice organizing!)
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If you have a teen who is disorganized or gifted or …  ... misunderstood; rigid or distractible or impulsive, you’ll want to look at this issue’s book review. Teen can be encouraged and helped by author Blake Taylor, who wrote this book in his last two years of high school. He put me off by its title, which sounded to me like it might be full of wisecracks, but ADHD & Me: What I Learned From Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table turned out to be a well-organized, practical book to help teens understand and deal wisely with many learning differences. I think many teens and older children would benefit from this short, easy-to-read book, regardless of whether they have attention deficit disorder.
Whether someone you love has ADHD or not, click here to learn more about whether this book can help you. |
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Links of the Month  This month, a variety of links:
--A comparison of reading programs from the International Dyslexia Association,
--A free recorded webinar from Joan Green on Technology Supports for writing,
--An article on the controversy over removing the Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis from the psychiatry's diagnostic manual, lumping it together with PDD/NOS (pervasive developmental dissorder not otherwise specified).
Learn more here. |
The holidays are coming--does that make you nervous?
Take a deep breath and remember to lower your expectations for the holidays. Last year I got sick and didn't have time to make Christmas cookies. But everyone lived.
Don't give yourself so much work you become hard to live with. Don't be like this woman:
"She's the sort of person you lives for others. You can tell the others by their hunted expression."
~C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters.
More advice on staying sane in my book, Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner. |
Enjoy the holidays,
Kathy Kuhl
Learn Differently.com |
