Comments on: How to help your ADHD child cope with the stigma http://kidsawarenessseries.com/2009/08/how-to-help-your-adhd-child-cope-with-the-stigma/ Bringing Understanding to Childhood Disorders Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: john glennon http://kidsawarenessseries.com/2009/08/how-to-help-your-adhd-child-cope-with-the-stigma/comment-page-1/#comment-23 john glennon Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:14:52 +0000 http://kidsawarenessseries.com/?p=531#comment-23 As a former elementary school principal, I am quite aware that attention difficulties are just the tip of the iceberg. ADHD children can't filter out distractions, finish tasks on-time, use their memory optimally, etc. A pill doesn't teach these skills. My wife and I opted to use cognitive training for our son, Alex. We used Play Attention (www.playattention.com) and ADHD Nanny (www.adhdnanny.com). We've been very successful with these approaches. We also changed our parenting skills with great success. It's just important to know that medicine teaches nothing. Parents and teachers must actively participate to help change a child's life. As parents we need to remember that there's more to do than just medicating over the summer; 1 - 4 months of academic achievement are lost over the summer by the average student. It was far worse than that for our son, Alex. Thus, we began the next year with a big deficit. We don't lose ground over the summer anymore with our new interventions. As a former elementary school principal, I am quite aware that attention difficulties are just the tip of the iceberg. ADHD children can’t filter out distractions, finish tasks on-time, use their memory optimally, etc. A pill doesn’t teach these skills.

My wife and I opted to use cognitive training for our son, Alex. We used Play Attention (www.playattention.com) and ADHD Nanny (www.adhdnanny.com). We’ve been very successful with these approaches. We also changed our parenting skills with great success.

It’s just important to know that medicine teaches nothing. Parents and teachers must actively participate to help change a child’s life.

As parents we need to remember that there’s more to do than just medicating over the summer; 1 – 4 months of academic achievement are lost over the summer by the average student. It was far worse than that for our son, Alex. Thus, we began the next year with a big deficit. We don’t lose ground over the summer anymore with our new interventions.

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