Nowhere to Hide: Why Kids with ADHD and LD Hate School and What We Can Do About It

ISBN-13: 9780470902981 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 336 str.

Jerome J Schultz

Opis

A new approach to help kids with ADHD and LD succeed in and outside the classroom This groundbreaking book addresses the consequences of the unabated stress associated with Learning disabilities and ADHD and the toxic, deleterious impact of this stress on kids' academic learning, social skills, behavior, and efficient brain functioning. Schultz draws upon three decades of work as a neuropsychologist, teacher educator, and school consultant to address this gap. This book can help change the way parents and teachers think about why kids with LD and ADHD find school and homework so toxic. It will also offer an abundant supply of practical, understandable strategies that have been shown to reduce stress at school and at home.

• Offers a new way to look at why kids with ADHD/LD struggle at school
• Provides effective strategies to reduce stress in kids with ADHD and LD
• Includes helpful rating scales, checklists, and printable charts to use at school and home

This important resource is written by a faculty member of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry and former classroom teacher.

Spis treści

Foreword (Edward M. Hallowell).

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

PART ONE: THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF STRESS.

1. Stayin′ Alive: Understanding the Human Brain and How It Responds to Stress.

2. Stress Goes to School.

PART TWO: MAKING SENSE OF LD AND ADHD.

3. What′s in a Name? Clearing Up Misperceptions About Learning Disabilities.

4. Pay Attention! Demystifying ADHD.

5. Decoding Stress with Neuropsychological Evaluations.

PART THREE: HOW KIDS SAVE FASE AND DE–STRESS.

6. Nowhere to Hide: How Negative Behaviors Help Kids Save FASE .

7. From Distress to DE–STRESS: Breaking the FASE Cycle and Putting Kids on the Path to Competence.

PART FOUR: SPECIAL MESSAGES FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS.

8. Making Schools Stress–Less and Success–Full for Students with LD and ADHD.

9. Parents and Families: Home Is Where the Heart (and Heartache) Is.

Conclusion: All′s Well That Ends . . . Well . . .

Appendix A: Resources for Families and Teachers.

Appendix B: Forms and Activities.

References.

About the Author.

Index.

O autorze

Jerome J. Schultz, Ph.D., a clinical neuropsychologist for over thirty years, is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and consults to schools in the United States and abroad. A former middle school teacher, Schultz specializes in the neuropsychological assessment and treatment of youth with learning disabilities and ADHD. For more information visit his website at www.jeromeschultz.com.

Blurb

Praise for Nowhere to Hide

"[Some 10–15% of America′s kids] fight the battle of learning disabilities and attention deficits every day. Through no fault or choice of their own, they become a daily source of puzzlement and frustration for the parents and teachers in their lives. In Nowhere to Hide, Schultz brings his unparalleled experience, knowledge, background, and wisdom to this issue. He provides the reader with comprehensible explanations of the latest neurobiological research and translates it into practical strategies parents and professionals can use to assist these students in reaching their fullest potential." Richard D. Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed., educational consultant and author, The Motivation Breakthrough and It′s So Much Work to Be Your Friend

"Jerry has helped thousands of teachers, students, parents, and others triumph (by turning) what seemed at first a shortcoming, even a disability, into an asset." from the foreword by Edward Hallowell, M.D., coauthor, Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction

"In Nowhere to Hide, Jerome Schultz brings to light the extraordinary stresses experienced by children with learning disabilities and ADHD. Kids with learning disabilities struggle academically, but they also experience tremendous fear and so do their parents! I wish my wife and I had had this practical, comforting book when we were raising our two children." Michael Thompson, Ph.D., coauthor, Raising Cain and It′s a Boy!., coauthor, Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction