AD/HD is seen as a unique set of neural, structural, and neurochemical sensitivities.  Also, AD/HD is frequently
not a single issue. For example, it may travel with other challenges, such as LD (learning disabilities or challenge)
or anxiety.  Carol encourages individuals to do all they can to better understand their own or their children's
condition using any or all of these avenues:

  • professional assessment of your AD/HD (licensed and experienced neuropsychologist,
    psychologist, qualified medical doctor or mental health nurse practitioner)

  • educate yourself! Read or listen to publications for your AD/HD


  • identify strengths through therapy or coaching and support;

  • find a medication that works through your doctor, and

  • always take medication as prescribed.

                                 Books and websites are listed below.   

Journeys Through ADDulthood by Sari Solden. Solden's ability to impart wisdom and practical guidance
about ADHD and ADD as well as to touch heart and soul is unique.  Foreword by Edward Hallowell.

Women With Attention Deficit Disorder by Sari Solden. This pioneering and still relevant book combines
research with exceptional empathy and life histories. It points up challenges women with ADD face.  Sari Solden
is a psychotherapist specializing in ADD in adults.

ADD on the Job - Making Your ADD Work for You by Lynn Weiss. This nationally recognized writer and
counselor for ADD and ADHD writes about the gifts and the problems of ADD on the job and gives excellent tips
on how to manage co-workers, the boss, and to help yourself in your work.

ADD and Creativity by Lynn Weiss. People with ADD can be some of the most creative people, but this gift may
also come with doubts or anxieties.  Dr. Weiss' book coaches creative people and offers tools to get around
doubts or the feeling of being ridiculed.

Adolescents and ADD - Gaining the Advantage by Patricia O. Quinn.  This book and others by nationally-
known author Dr. Quinn, M.D. are clear and quite helpful for this age group.  Using examples from students  
struggling with this condition, the author focuses on the fact that adolescents with ADD are becoming more
independent, yet need to know this life-long condition requires skills in managing so they can grow and flourish
to the best of their abilities.

Coaching College Students with AD/HD - issues and answers by Patricia O. Quinn, Nancy A. Ratey, and
Theresa L. Maitland.  College brings a quantum leap in demand for time management and task completion.  It
brings more challenge in interpersonal relationships and decisions.  This book provides help in addressing daily
living, academic and personal skills on the college campus.  Nancy Ratey has other publications regarding ADD
that are worth exploring.

Survival Guide for College Students with ADHD or LD by Kathleen G. Nadeau.  This nationally-known
writer on ADHD and LD begins with the important topic of choosing the best college for you, a key decision.  She
moves into the important details of college life, such as choosing the best schedule and major with an eye toward
career.  Transition from high school is a major change.  Seeking the best college support can make an academic
difference.

Learning Outside the Lines - Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give
You the Tools for Academic Success and Educational Revolution
by Jonathan Mooney and David Cole.  
One of the best books for parents and teens, it is written in first person and from the heart. The struggles
described fit many kids for whom one size fits all ADA and IDEA laws do not contribute to their educational
journey.  Returning from being expelled, from addiction, and from despair, they give information and hope in an
amusing writing style.
The risk of losing our boys and young men with AD/HD is clear.

What does everybody else know that I don't? - Social Skills Help for Adults with Attention
Deficity/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD)
 by Michele Novotni. Dr. Novotni is a long-time author in the area of
adult AD/HD.  This helpful book focuses on the social side of coping with ADD and AD/HD, knowing what to do
socially, and through exercises, tips, and a well organized book, provides information to act upon in social
situations.

CrazyBusy by Edward M. Hallowell.  This national author and practitioner in the field of AD/HD and psychiatry
writes about our ADD and ADHD society, where our mainstream American cultural norms push for frantic lives
and a harried pace, having us create lives that cannot catch up. We and our loved ones suffer as a
consequence. This book provides strategies for handling your fast-paced life. Technology is not always the
answer.

ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life by Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadeau.  Well laid out, with focus
on specific challenges.  Great examples and tips.  Keep as a reference and make progress in putting more order
in your life.  Order doesn't occur all at once.  It takes time and returning to this book helps a person.

Understanding Girls with AD/HD by Kathleen Nadeau, Ellen Littman, and Patricia Quinn.  Help for parents,
teachers, tutors, and other professionals in helping recognize ADD in young girls and getting them onto a better
track.  
Bright girls with ADD often go undetected because they can compensate and because the signs
show up later in childhood, but eventually there are difficult consequences either in the inner or outer life.  
Written by some of the best in the field.

Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD by
Daniel Amen.  This is a controversial book in the minds of some practitioners, but it does have the benefit of
indicating that the brain and ADD are quite complicated, and different in each person or child, therefore, one
size fits all approaches or medications are not appropriate.  

the disorganized mind - coaching your ADHD brain to take control of your time, tasks, and
talents
by Nancy A. Ratey, Ed. M.  Part of the husband/wife team concerned with ADHD, Ms. Ratey is an
experienced coach.  Her book focuses on the very basics that prove so difficult when a person has the
ADHD/ADD condition. Key focus is on finding one's own strategies with coaching help in the book.

Honey, Are You Listening? - How Attention Deficit Disorder Could Be Affecting Your Marriage by
Rick and Jerilyn Fowler. Rick Fowler has ADD and Rick and Jerilyn have been married 26 years.  Their book
offers practical tips for dealing with the difficult traits of the ADD/ADHD partner or spouse with the goal of a
stronger, intimate and satisfying relationship in mind.


Book Review

Attention Deficit Disorder – The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults by Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.  

Dr. Brown's book is useful and easy to navigate. He begins by explaining the difference between the two
designations, ADD and AD/HD (the H is hyperactivity), calling it a Syndrome, not a disorder. He takes an
organized view of his information. For the practitioner, the book weaves theory and research seamlessly around
the examples. For the adult or parent, subjects of interest can be located quickly. Information is up to date,
particularly on medications, and even the reader is against medicating, there is helpful information. From the
developmental perspective, Brown writes specifically about childhood, adolescence, and includes a welcome
chapter and examples on the adult challenge of ADD.



ADD Classes on the Internet. For help with AD/HD as an adult or for a child, http://www.addclasses.com
provides helpful and often free classes via the internet.  Helpful for parents and adults. Carol appreciates hearing
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