Recommended Reading

The ADHD Book of Lists: a Practical Guide for Helping Children and Teens with Attention Deficit Disorders
Sandra F. Rief
The ADHD Book of Lists is a comprehensive guide to ADHD/ADD, providing the answers parents, teachers, and other caregivers seek in a convenient list format. This book includes the latest research findings and resources, including the most up to date tools and strategies for helping these children succeed.

 

How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD: Practical Techniques, Strategies and Interventions, 2nd Edition
Sandra F. Rief
This book offers 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.

 

ADHD Book: Living Right Now!
Martin Kutscher
The ADHD BOOK: Living Right Now! provides responsible, empathic, and extremely useful information for families and teachers. The book focuses on impulse control, over-reaction, foresight, and organization problems as key difficulties in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

 

Kids in the Syndrome Mix of ADHD, LD, Asperger’s, Tourette’s, Bipolar and More!
Martin Kutscher
Kids in the Syndrome Mix is a concise, scientifically up-to-date, all-in-one guide to the whole range of often co-existing neuro-behavioral disorders in children-from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and bipolar disorder, to autistic spectrum disorders, nonverbal learning disabilities, sensory integration problems, and executive dysfunction.

 

Attention Deficit Disorder: the Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults
Thomas Brown
This book dispels the myths and offers reassuring, practical information about ADHD treatments. Drawing on recent findings in neuroscience and a rich variety of case studies from his own 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.

 

It’s So Much Work to be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success
Richard Lavoie
Drawing on three decades of experience, Rick Lavoie provides powerful strategies for teaching friendship skills in the classroom, the Homefront, and the community. First, you’ll explore the causes and consequences of “social incompetence.” Then, you’ll gain field-tested advice on how to help children work through daily social struggles and go from being picked on and isolated to becoming accepted and involved.

 

Teaching the Tiger: a Handbook for Individuals Involved in the Eduations of Students with Attention Deficit Disorders, Tourette Syndrome or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Marilyn Dornbush & Sheryl Pruitt
This book provides Innovative methods of teaching children with Attention-deficit-disordered children, Tourette syndrome in children, Obsessive-compulsive disorder in children. A guide for parents and teachers.

 

ADHD in the Classroom: Strategies for Teachers (with Program Manual)
Russell Barkley
ADHD in the Classroom is designed to help teachers create a learning environment that is responsive to the needs of all students, including those with ADHD. Scenes from an actual classroom illustrate problems that teachers typically encounter and bring effective solutions to life.

 

The Explosive Child: a New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, “Chronically Inflexible” Children
Ross Greene
Dr. Ross Greene helps you understand why and when your child does these things and how to respond in ways that are nonpunitive, nonadversarial, humane, and effective. This book break’s down behaviours in a way that helps my parents understand their child’s behaviours.

 

Survival Guide for College Students with ADHD or LD, 2nd Edition
Kathleen Nadeau
This useful guide for high school or college students diagnosed with attention deficit disorder or learning disabilities will provide the information they need to survive and thrive in the college setting. The Survival Guide is filled with practical suggestions and tips from an experienced specialist in the field and from college students who also suffer from these difficulties.