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Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) And Learning "Disabilities"

Experts estimate that between 4-10% of ourthe wipers to get rid of unnecessary
youth are now diagnosed as having Attentioncloudiness. She is trying as hard as she can
Deficit Disorder. It can be frustrating andto process all of the information coming into
discouraging to deal with symptoms of ADD.her experience. Of course, what often happens
Here's the great news: there is nothingis that the conscious mind becomes
"wrong" with your child or with you as theoverwhelmed and she may simply shut down,
parent; there is nothing that needs to bestop paying attention, and give up or it
"fixed". You and your child have ALL of themight be played out physically in the body
resources within you to experience success inwhich might be seen as anxious, aggressive or
school, at home and in the world. If yourhyperactive  behavior.
child is not succeeding in school or at home,
it simply means that she doesn't haveThe first step in helping your child to learn
effective tools for doing so. Once we teacheffectively is to help her determine what her
her world-class skills for succeeding at homeparticular strategy is for learning and then
and in school, she will no doubt beto teach her very precise, effective
successful.strategies for learning information most
effectively. A visual learning strategy is
A diagnosis can be helpful in giving us athe most effective strategy for learning
framework for understanding what the reasonacademic tasks like spelling words, math
is behind the challenging behaviors or thefacts and vocabulary words; learning visually
poor school performance. You can understandmakes learning fun, interesting and much less
the behavior better when you understand wheretime-consuming.
it is coming from. When you understand that
it's not a matter of whether or not yourIn order to teach a young person a visual
child is trying hard enough, rather that itlearning strategy, she must first believe
is simply a matter of her not having thethat she CAN learn by making pictures in her
tools to be successful in learning, then youmind. Often, young people who are diagnosed
can respond differently to it. ADD, Dyslexiaas having ADD or some other "learning
and other learning "differences" are a way ofdifference" feel that they can't control
describing how a person's brain is wired ortheir own mind, but rather that their mind
the way in which they process information. Itcontrols them. In order to begin to teach
doesn't mean that they don't process or learneffective learning strategies, we need to
information; it simply means that they do itbegin with helping the child to see that
better using certain strategies or processesindeed she CAN control her own mind and the
than  with  others,  as  we  all  do.pictures  that  she  makes  in  her  mind.
In order to help you understand your child'sThe first step is to assist the child in
experience of the world, you need toslowing down the pictures in her own mind and
understand exactly what goes on in the mindslowing her body down so that she can learn
of a young person with ADD. Here's a way inand implement simple, effective learning
which you can begin to understand thestrategies and begin to experience more
experience of a child with ADD. I want you tosuccess at school as well as at home. In
imagine that you're driving in a rainstormaddition, we want to provide her with the
without the windshield wipers on. Prettykind of environment that will best support
frustrating, isn't it? Imagine the effort ither and her particular needs; for most kids,
would require to keep your mind focused onand especially for kids with ADD, the
the road ahead just in order to keep yourselfenvironment that is most supportive of their
and others feeling safe and protected. Yet,needs is one that is unconditional,
that is precisely what goes on in the mind ofstructured and consistent while providing
a young person with ADD. The screen simplythem enough freedom to learn to negotiate the
becomes blurred without the ability to useworld on their own.



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