Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword ix
by Edward M. Hallowell
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part One: The Neurobiology of Stress
1. Stayin' Alive: Understanding the Human Brain and How It Responds to Stress 17
2. Stress Goes to School 37
Part Two: Making Sense of LD and ADHD
3. What's in a Name? Clearing Up Misperceptions About Learning Disabilities 53
4. Demystifying ADHD 83
5. Decoding Stress with Neuropsychological Evaluations 105
Part Three: How Kids "SAVE FASE" and DE-STRESS
6. Nowhere to Hide: How Negative Behaviors Help Kids "Save FASE" 133
7. From Distress to DE-STRESS: Breaking the FASE Cycle and Putting Kids on the Path to Competence 149
Part Four: Special Messages for Teachers and Parents
8. Making Schools Stress-Less and Success-Full for Students with LD and ADHD 201
9. Parents and Families: Home Is Where the Heart (and Heartache) Is 245
Conclusion: All's Well That Ends...Well . . . 275
Appendix A: Resources for Families and Teachers 285
Appendix B: Forms and Activities 289
References 300
About the Author 306
Index 308
