Related Links on Attention
Deficit Disorder
Positive/Alternative
Webchains
The Explorer Webstar Homepage: A collection of positive
and alternative sites about Attention Deficit Disorder, including:
Bill & Mary Allsopp's Project Lab.
Bouncingbrains.com
Cathy's Explorer Pages
A Drum Heard Differently
Join the Mail List (currently down)
Leviathan Grook
Nurturing Our
Spirited Children
Positively ADD - Parenting and
Unschooling
Save One
Starfish
Gifted and Creative
Mis-Diagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children
Hoagies Gifted
Education Page (Great practical info for parents)
Gifted Development Center (**good info on visual/spatial learners)
Diagnosing ADD in Gifted Children
The National Foundation for Gifted & Creative Children
Why Do So Many Smart Kids With ADD
Fail In Our Public Schools, by Thom Hartmann
Educational Options (includes
articles about gifted children and adults)
Quotes on Gifted and Creative Children
Simon's Rock College (a college in New
England for high school kids)
The National Research Center on the
Gifted and Talented
Creativity and
Counseling ERIC Clearinghouse
The Theory of Positive
Disintegration by Kazimierz Dabrowski Presented by Bill Tillier
Fostering Academic Creativity in Gifted Students
Gifted Children With
Learning Disabilities
Creativity
ADHD
and Children who are Gifted
Gifted and Learning
Disabled?
The Torrance
Center for Creative Studies, University of Georgia
Education (see also my
Alternatives in Education page.)
Homeschooling on About.com Has specific information on each state.
John Taylor Gatto: writing on the
web (thoughts from a New York Teacher of the Year)
Nobel Prize Winners
Hate School
The Hunter School (New Hampshire Boarding
School modeled after Thom Hartmann's ideas)
Jon's
Unschooling Page (under Jon's Homeschool Resource Page)
The High School Home School
Page
Home & Education
The Serious Side of Scouting Page: ADD,
ADHD and Related Disorders
Allergy and Nutrition
"Diet, ADHD and Behavior" by The
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Doris Rapp, M.D. -
Outspoken advocate of checking allergies in ADD children.
Feingold Association
Pfeiffer Treatment Center Some very interesting articles about nutrition and ADD,
especially zinc/copper.
ADHD and Living Milk-Free
First-hand account of ADHD induced by a milk
allergy.
FAILSAFE Diet by
Australian Sue Dengate, removal of additives, etc. Good first hand stories.
Diet and ADHD
Revisited by David Rabiner, Ph.D.
Thinking Styles and
Temperament
On the Morning of the Third
Day... A fascinating story about a boy who was hit by lightning and became
ADHD/dyslexic. Now grown, he talks about how he became smarter in some ways, with
sharper conceptual thinking skills.
Right Brain Works
Brain Works Download a right
brain/left brain self test
Strategies for the Visual/Spatial
Learner
Psychological Type
Profiles by Joe Butt and Marina Heiss. Readable MBTI descriptions.
The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses.
Attention
Deficit Disorder by Dr. Paul Elliott, M.D. This article talks about ADDers using
different "channels types" for thought processing
Wilder at
Heart - A new study of eccentrics
AH HA! Rethinking
Attention Deficit Disorder: A teacher reviews a book which changed her
perception of ADD and the nature of motivation.
The Block Center - Dr. Mary Ann Block,
author of "No More Ritalin - Treating ADHD without Drugs." Includes a page on
right-brain learners.
Non-Linearity of Thought
Media Reports
More U.S. Children Being Diagnosed with Youthful Tendancy
Disorder
Paying Attention Scientific
American
The Merrow
Report "ADD: A Dubious Diagnosis" (the
transcript, shown on PBS and 60 Minutes). This transcript talks about the relationship
between the makers of Ritalin and CHADD, and interviews kids about their thoughts on
taking Ritalin.
Attention Deficit Disaster (Wall Street
Journal Editorial): how kids can acquire "learned helplessness" when everyone
considers them to be defective and blames all good and bad behavior on their medication.
Articles by Thomas Armstrong,
Ph.D.
Why I Believe that
Attention Deficit Disorder is a Myth
Sparking Creativity in
Your Child
Labels Can Last a Lifetime
To Empower, Not Control
Little Geniuses
50 Ways To
Bring Out Your Child's Best
Multiple Intelligences: 7 Ways to
Approach Curriculum
ADD: Does it Really Exists?
Utopian Schools
Articles by Ned Hallowell,
M.D., Author of Driven to Distraction
What's It
Like To Have ADD?
Diagnostic
Criteria for Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults
Fifty Tips on
the management of ADD
Attention Deficit Disorder
in Children
50 Tips on the
Management of Attention Deficit Disorder in the Classroom
Notes on Dr.
E. Hallowell's Presentation 1997 ADDA Conference
Other Alternative or
Positive Pages
Remedy Find (Reader
treatment ratings)
Thomas Hartmann (Hunter in a Farmer's
world concept)
Shadow Coaching (Louis Hartmann's
website)
Nurturing Our
Spirited Children
Lawrence. H. Diller, M.D. (author of Running on
Ritalin)
The ADD Action Group - Lots of great
alternatives
"Learning
Disability": A Rose by Another Name by Jan Hunt, M.Sc.
Abuse it -- Lose it: Logical Consequences for
Teaching Self-Control to Mischievous Children by David Keirsey (I can personally vouch
for this method - it works!
Words Can And Do Break
Bones About harrassment of ADDers
Famous People Who Appear to Have
ADD Behaviors
Famous People With Attention Deficit and
Learning Disorders (Child Development Institute)
50 (or so) Great Things
About Having ADD by Bob Seay (scroll down: I love this page!)
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a Fake
Disease
The Hyperactive Teacher
Over-Focused Or
Attention Deficit Disorder?
The Hazards of Treating
"Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder" with Methylphenidate (Ritalin) by
Peter R. Breggin, M.D. and Ginger Ross Breggin
Select Products and Services
Barlean's
Organic Oils **High quality flax oil
Zone Perfect Omega-3 Distilled Fish Oil **(also at The Vitamin Shoppe)
** products that I have used and recommend
Medications
Psychotrophic
Drug Use in Very Young Children - Journal of the American Medical Association - editorial
Alphabet Soup Kids
tell how it feels to take meds
The Drug
Methylphenidate (Ritalin)
Paying Attention Scientific
American
Side Effects - Medications Used
for ADD/ADHD
DEA Warns of Ritalin Abuse; Drug
Manufacturer's Contributions to Advocay Group Investigated (National Drug Strategy
Network)
FactLine on Non-Medical
Use of Ritalin (Indiana Prevention Resource Center)
Other Conditions Related to
ADD
 Depression on About.com
 Bipolar Disorders on About.com
Think Learning is Hard? Check
Out Sam's Story of Life With Dyslexia
Learning
Disabilities and Dyslexia (by Health Touch Online)
The
Advantages of Being Dyslexic and ADD
Dyslexia, The Gift
Fibromyalgia: A New Perspective -
According to several patients treated for ADD, Ritalin cured their untreatable
fibromyalgia, a condition marked by chronic pain, tender points, and other miscellaneous
symptoms.
ADD and Hypersensitivities:
Is there a connection?
ADD and Hypersensitivities
The
Depressed Child
Pendulum Resources (Bipolar Disorders)
Depression FAQ
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Environmental Causes of ADD
Preventing Harm
(info on lead, arsenic, mercury, pesticides...)
General Information on ADD
ADD on About.com Bob Seay's site, contains lots of info and links
Another Look - Articles by Bob Seay, not
about ADD
Mental Health Net The best list of rated websites I know of.
Internet Mental Health
A.D.D.
Consultants - Includes some good articles about ADD
Digital Literacy Foundation - A Women's ADD site
Addult
Support of Washington
Adult Checklist for ADD
Taming the Triad
Legal Rights and Services for Children with ADD
ADD on AOL
Ch.A.D.D. (Children & Adults with ADD)
One ADD Place
ADDA
Personal Sites on ADD
Brandi
Valentine's "ADHD: Taking Control Through Knowlege"
A Journey in Attention Deficit
Disorder, by Bev Price.
Shane's Place
UnnaWhim With ADD
The Misunderstood Child
Humorous ADDults Intriguing
Themselves
Paul A. Reynolds' ADD Web Page: This
site includes some creative writing by ADDers.
Mary-Julia Stephens
Discussion Groups
Attention
Deficit Disorder lists several different discussion groups
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