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ADHD General Information

• ADD/ADHD General Information Table of Contents
• What is ADD/ADHD
• Possible Causes & Diagnosis
• Glossary of Frequently Used Acronyms
• Articles by our "Ask the Expert", Dr Billy Levin
• Management of ADHD
• Myths About ADD/ADHD
• Common Problems for ADHDers Can Include:
• NHS and Community Care Act 1990
• Legal Help
• ADHD for the Legal Profession
• Insurance Information
• F.A.Q.
• The Lighter Side Of ADD/ADHD

Information Children with ADD/ADHD

• Information about Children with ADD/ADHD Table of Contents
• What is ADD/ADHD
• How Do I Know If I have ADD/ADHD? (Children)
• The Brains of People with ADHD
• Causes of ADHD in Girls
• Management of ADHD
• Myths & Facts
• Common Problems for ADHDers Can Include:
• ADHD Handout Cards
• Time Out Cards
• Charter of Rights for Persons with ADHD
• Self Esteem Issues
• Social Skills
• Strategies for Enhancing Social Interaction in ADHD Children
  
• Claiming Disability Living Allowance & Other Social Security Benefits
• Legal Help
• What Happens If My Child Commits An Offence?
• Siblings Information
• What about us? - Non-ADHD Siblings in the ADD Family
• Impact of ADHD on the Family
• Activities for ADHD Children and Family Members
  
• Possible Sources of Help including some financial
• Speech and Language Therapy
• Respite Care
• Introduction to Assessment by Social Services
• Introduction to Transition
• Ideas to Help Problems with Eating in Children with ADHD
• E Numbers
• My Top Tips For Dealing With My ADD Son, Richard
• F.A.Q.
• The Lighter Side Of ADD/ADHD
• Types of ADD/ADHD in the form of the characters from Winnie the Pooh!
• Your Top Tips And Success Stories (Children)
• Richard's Education History - A Father's Perspective
• Psychological Assessment of Childhood AD/HD
• Comparing Brains in Children with ADHD and Autism
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder - European Description
• Conduct Disorder - European Description
• Natural Remedies

Information for Teenagers with ADD/ADHD

• Information for Teenagers with ADD/ADHD Table of Contents
  
• Information for Teenagers with ADHD
• Common Behaviours Teenagers with ADD/ADHD and Ideas How to Help
• Top Coping Strategies For Teenagers and Adults With ADHD
• Helping Your Teen with ADD (ADHD) Prepare for Independence
• Parenting Teenagers with ADHD Part 1
• Parenting Teenagers with ADHD Part 2
• Guiding Principles For Parent And Teenager Interactions
• Help for Parents of ADHD Teens Facing Challenging Behaviors
• Supporting Teenagers With ADHD
• The ABC's of ADD and ADHD!!! - Impact on School Performance
• 12 Things Collage Students With ADD/ADHD Would Like Their Teachers To Know
• Getting Ready for College - Help & Advise for High School Students with ADHD
• ADHD and Adjustment to College
• Study and Work
• Ten Steps for Student Success for College and Adult Students with ADHD
• Effectiveness of Boarding Schools for ADHD Teens
• ADHD Teens: School Issues, Career Choices
• ADHD Teenagers and the Crucial Role of Boarding Staff
• ADHD Teens: Help for School and Social Skills Difficulties
  
• ADHD Teens and Relationship Problems
• The Link Between ADHD and Eating Disorders
• Helping ADHD Adolescent Smokers
• Making ADHD-Friendly Career Choices
• ADHD/LD Adults and Finding Success in the Workplace
• What about Accommodations for a Driving Test?

Information Adults with ADD/ADHD

• Information for Adults with ADD/ADHD Table of Contents
  
• What is ADD/ADHD
• ADD / ADHD in Adults
• How Do I Know If I have ADD/ADHD? (Adults)
• ADDvice for ADDults
• Information And Help For ADDults In The UK
• Management of ADHD
• Myths & Facts
• Common Problems for ADHDers Can Include:
• Charter of Rights for Persons with ADHD
• Tips To Help Manage ADD
• Top Coping Strategies For Teenagers and Adults With ADHD
• Claiming Disability Living Allowance & Other Social Security Benefits
• ADHD & Driving
• ADHD and Addiction
• F.A.Q.
• Employment Issues
• Disclosing ADHD Disability to Employer
  
• Employment Accommodations
• Requesting Workplace Accommodations
• Long term medical conditions: career prospects
• Disability Rights UK
• The Positive's of ADD. The Advantages of Attention Deficit Disorder
• ADHD/LD Adults and Finding Success in the Workplace
• The Lighter Side Of ADD/ADHD
• Methylphenidate Improves Response Inhibition in Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• A Lighter Look At ADHD - "U No U've Got ADHD Wen???"
• Your Top Tips And Success Stories (Adults)
• Natural Remedies

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Medication and Treatments

• Treatment Options
• Medication
• Safe Storage of Medication
• Taking Medication on Holiday Abroad
• Medication use in Sport
• Methylphenidate in the Armed Services
• Relationship Between ADHD Stimulant Therapy and Substance Abuse
• ADHD Stimulants Not Linked to Drug Abuse
• Strattera Plus Stimulants for Treatment of ADHD

Information Natural Remedies

• Natural Alternatives: Information
• AD-FX - Natural Alternatives for ADD / ADHD
• AiA(Allergy induced Autism) diet
• Attend
• beCALM'd
• "Buried Treasure ADD Attention"
• Bioflow
• Biometics - (Water-Soluable Vitamins)
• Calm Child
• Calm Focus
• Calmplex 2000
• Chamomile
• Cytobuddies
• Defend-OL
• Developmental Integration Technique
• EEG Biofeedback or Neurofeedback
• Efalex
• Evening Primrose Oil
• Eye Q
• Feingold Diet/Program
• Focus
• Fresh Lemon Balm
• Fruit and whole seed grain cookies or Backup Bar
• the Glenview Treatment
• G.P.4.o
• Ginko Biloba
• Gotu Kola
• Guarana
• L-5-HTP
• Low Phosphate Diet
• Magnets and Far Infar Red
• Melatonin
• Melotone
• Multimodality Integrated Biofeedback
• Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Techniques
• Neuro 911
• Neurofeedback or EEG Biofeedback
• Nikken
• Nux Vomica
• Passionflower
• Pedi-Active
• Pycnogenol - Proanthocyanadin
• Restores
• Saint John's Wort
• SerenAid
• Skullcap
• Super Blue Green Algae
• Tyrosine
• Vitamin B Complex and Magnesium
• Vitamin C and Niacinamide
• Wild Oat Seed
• Zan
• Zinc Sulphate

Information for Partners

• Information for Spouses and Partners Table of Contents
  
• How Do You Cope With An ADD Spouse?
• How a Partner's Untreated Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity (ADHD) Affects Relationships
• The Impact of ADHD on Marriage
• Why a Support Group for Partners of People with AD/HD?
• The Psychosocial Functioning of Children and Spouses of Adults With ADHD
• ADHD and Marital/Family Satisfaction: A preliminary study
• ADD and Intimate Relationships
• Marriage and AD/HD: A Couple's Survival Guide
• Relationship Issues for Adults with ADHD

Information About ADHD Coaching

• An Introduction to ADHD Coaching
  
• Coach Harv's Quick Guide To Coaches
• 4S's Coaching Programme
• How to Train as an ADD/ADHD Coach
• Parent Coaching for Children with ADHD and Learning Disabilities
  

Information on ADHD and Educational Issue

• Information on ADHD and Educational Issues Table of Contents
  
• How Schools Can Help
• Teacher's Reference Page
• 50 Tips for Managing Attention Deficit Disorder in the Classroom
• Various Rating Scales
• Requesting an Assessment of Special Educational Needs - SEN Code of Practise 2001
• Help With The Educational Statementing Process
• Statement of Special Educational Needs - SEN Code of Practise 2001 Statements
• Disclosing, Maintaining and Amending Statements - SEN Code of Practise 2001 Statements
• Parent Partnership Services - SEN Code of Practise 2001
• Annual Review - SEN Code of Practice 2001
• Annual Review
• Child Profile for use at School
• Early Years Action Plan
• Primary Phase School Action
• Secondary Phase School Action
• Pastoral Support Programme
• School and Parental Support
• Extra Help for Exams
• Role of an Independent Parental Supporter
• Special Educational Needs Code of Practice 2002
• S.E.N.and Disabilty Act 2001
• Disability Discrimination and Schools
• S.E.N. Complaints, Appeals and Claims
• School Exclusion
• Exclusion Appeals
• Inclusion, Education & Human Rights
• Checklist & Notes On What A Whole School Policy On Disability Equality And Inclusion Should Cover
• Access to School Records
• Questions To Ask Schools
• Legal Help
• Home Education Information for England & Wales
• Home Education Information for Scotland
• Home Education Information & Links
• Crime & Disorder Act with Reference to School Attendance
• Coaching Tips For Parents Of Children With LD And ADHD
• Classroom Coaching
• Classroom Coaching: Developing Constructive Internal Language
• BPS ADHD Guidelines and Principles for Successful Multi-Agency Working
• Some Useful Educational Terms
• Introduction to Transition
• Richard's Education History - A Father's Perspective
• Psychological Assessment of Childhood AD/HD
• Educational Resources for ADHD Children
  

ADHD Information Papers and Articles

• Papers and Articles on ADHD Table of Contents
  
• Corporal punishment in children from a Religious point of view - By Dr Billy Levin our Ask the Expert
• Prescribed Drugs - A Cure for Misbehaviour - By Dr Billy Levin our Ask the Expert
• Reality of Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - By Dr Billy Levin our Ask the Expert
• Mini CV for Dr Billy Levin our Ask the Expert
• Project Information for Gordon Brown RHM (Changing Lanes) our Ask the Expert
• Diet factor in ADHD - By Dr Billy Levin our Ask the Expert
• Diagnosing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Takes: Time, Insight and Experience. - By Dr Billy Levin our Ask the Expert
• Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Minimal Brain Dysfunction - By Dr Billy Levin our Ask the Expert
• The diagnosis and management of ADD/ADHD is NOT a hotbed of controversy!: By Drs. Nic Kloppers and Billy Levin (1.10.99) - By Dr Billy Levin our Ask the Expert
• Confusion about ADHD. - By Dr Billy Levin our Ask the Expert
• Interview by Judith Monk with Jason Alster
• Health Visitor Training Paper
• Effective Joint Working between Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and Schools
• Wasted lives - missed opportunities
• "An Inclusive Learning Handbook for Prisons and Young Offender Institutions"
• "ADHD teenagers and the crucial role of boarding staff"
• Concerta For ADHD Children Safe and Effective
• Study on Reducing Adult Mental Illness
• ADHD and Austism May Have Common Gene Variations
• Study: Risk Genes for ADHD
• Do Benefits of Intensive ADHD Medication Management Last

ADD / ADHD Research Information

• ADD / ADHD Research Information Table of Contents
• Children and Adults with ADHD Bridging the Gap - The Need for Creative Collaboration between CAMHS and Adult Mental Health Services(pdf)
• The Association Between Hyperkinesis and Breakdown of Parenting in Clinic Populations
• Delta Plots in the Study of Individual Differences: New Tools Reveal Response Inhibition Deficits in AD/HD That Are Eliminated by Methylphenidate Treatment
• Regional cerebral blood flow in children with ADHD: changes with age
• Atomoxetine Ingestions in Children: A Report from Poison Centers
• Modeling ADHD child and family relationships
• Comparative Study of Cerebral White Matter in Autism and Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder by Means of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy(1).
• Coping Skills and Parent Support Mediate the Association Between Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Adolescent Cigarette Use
• Ropinirole in a Child With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Restless Legs Syndrome
• Medication Combined with Behavior Therapy Works Best for ADHD Children, Study Finds
• Atomoxetine and Stimulants in Combination for Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Four Case Reports
• ADHD Least Understood In The UK - New Global Survey Reveals UK Parents Hardest Hit By Child's ADHD
• Unrecognised Dyslexia and the Route to Offending
• New Results from the MTA Study - Do treatment effects persist?
• The role of Disability Living Allowance in the management of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• ADHD: Increased Costs for Patients and Their Families
• Understanding and Recognizing ADHD by Dr Nikos Myttas
• Stigma of Disorder, Lack of Information significant barriers to treatment of ADHD among African Americans, Hispanics (pdf)
• A Whole-Genome Scan in 164 Dutch Sib Pairs with Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder: Suggestive Evidence for Linkage on Chromosomes 7p and 15q (pdf)
• Assessing the molecular genetics of attention networks (pdf)
• A qualitative study of Australian GPs' attitudes and practices in the diagnosis and management of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• Low Self-Esteem and Psychiatric Patients: Part I – The Relationship Between Low Self-Esteem and Psychiatric Diagnosis (pdf)
• Recent Advances in the Genetics of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Is primary care ready to take on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? (pdf)
• Does routine child health surveillance contribute to the early detection of children with pervasive developmental disorders? – An epidemiological study in Kent, U.K.(pdf)
• Methylphenidate Enhances Working Memory by Modulating Discrete Frontal and Parietal Lobe Regions in the Human Brain (pdf)
• A genomewide scan for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in an extended sample: suggestive linkage on 17p11
• Genetic linkage of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder on chromosome 16p13, in a region implicated in autism
• A genomewide scan for loci involved in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
• Genetics of ADHD
• Extracts from Institute of Psychiatry Research Report 2002
• Developmental neuropsychopathology of attention deficit and impulsiveness.
• IMAGE - Mapping susceptibility genes for attention deficity hyperactivity disorder
• Sail (Study Of Activity And Impulsivity Levels In Children)
• Prior juvenile diagnoses in adults with mental disorder: developmental follow-back of a prospective-longitudinal cohort
• Treatment In Childhood Could Halve Rates Of Mental Disorders
• Hyperactivity and Conduct Problems as Risk Factors for Adolescent Development
• Neuropsychological analyses of impulsiveness in childhood hyperactivity
• Study Confirms Concerta (methylphenidate HCl) Effective, Safe Treatment For Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• AD(H)D RESEARCH PROJECT - Psychological Aspects of ADD
• Does Stimulant Therapy of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Beget Later Substance Abuse? A Meta-analytic Review of the Literature
• Nonstimulant Therapy Shows Effectiveness in ADHD
• More about SPECT Scans, Cancer and ADHD by Thom Hartmann
• Study Raises Hopes for Adhd Medical Test, more about PET Scans
• Further Study on ADDerall
• Brain Areas Critical To Human Time Sense Identified
• Increase in ADHD And Comorbid Disorders Seen in Families of Girls With ADHD
• New Study on ADDerall
• ADHD in Girls
• Study Finds Careful Medication Management Of ADHD Superior To Behavioural Treatment
• Pharmacotherapy of Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Reduces Risk for Substance Use Disorder
• Brain Scan Shows ADHD
• Serotonin May Hold Key to Hyperactivity Disorder Disorder Treatment
• Paying Attention
• Treating Children's Sleep Disorders Improves Attention Deficit Symptoms

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