Useful Tips
Are there tips for everyday life?
Several practical tips for children with ADHD are offered in the book My Brain Needs Glasses. You will also find a host of practical tips for adults in the book My Brain STILL Needs Glasses. Here are a few.
Difficulties with Time ?
Certain tools have been designed to help time management. Do you know the visual clock, the Time Timer TM, the Ticktask TM , or the Vibration Alarm Watches, that vibrate instead of ring? In Québec, you can contact fdmt Entreprises to find sensori-motor and developmental products including some of the tools described here. ( If you find other interesting tools or know other enterprises in Québec that keep those, please contact us. The goal here is to inform, not to market. Dr Vincent has no financial interest in any products or enterprises described here).
Medication or not?
So what to do when the medical diagnosis is established? Does a child need to take or not medication? Several tips are given by the pediatrician Dr Renée-Claude Duval for parents whose child has just been diagnosed with ADHD and who say Ritalin?...No way!.
Side effects?
Dr Annick Vincent offers solutions to counteract the loss of appetite caused by the medication. Sleep may also be affected in people suffering from ADHD. There are some basic tips that can help promote sleep.
Difficulties in school?
Here is a letter to inform your child's teachers either in elementary or high school. The letter provides information on ADHD and tips for teachers to better supervise your child.
For adults who need counselling while continuing their schooling, here is an explanatory letter to inform teachers in post-secondary schools. The letter provides information on ADHD and provides tips for teachers to better supervise the student.
You could also use one of the letters for the school that CADDAC and CADDRA have developed.
Bonita Blazer, PHD and Mary Ann Ager, MD, from Feel Good Kids, www.BBlazer.org have designed an interesting document about Classroom Accommodations for Students with ADHD. They have generously accepted to put this information on Dr Annick Vincent's website. This compilation is part of an ethnographic study of 10 school districts with over 500 teachers and responders to the question: "What teachers say helps students with ADD achieve success in school". This compilation is the prioritized consensus of their most effective classroom accommodations (finding drawn from data collection).
In collaboration with the University Mental Health Institute, Centre hospitalier Robert-Giffard, Dr Annick Vincent has developed general information sheets that clinicians can give to their patients. If you want an educational document of a few pages about ADHD, please do not hesitate to consult and use it to inform your family members.
Do not hesitate to consult the resources section to find general information on several support groups.
Latest
ADDA's 2008 National Meeting
July 10-13, 2008
The 2nd biennial, international conference: BRAIN DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING: MAKING SENSE OF THE SCIENCE July 12-15, 2008
2008 CADDRA ADHD Conference
September 27 - 28, 2008
20th Annual CHADD International Conference
November 13 - 15, 2008
2nd International Congress on ADHD
May 21 - 24, 2009
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD:
An Integrative Psychosocial and Medical Approach
ADHD in Adults:
What the Science Says
