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All About ADHD
- Provides information for parents and caregivers about this disorder in young children. Includes explanation of symptoms, when to seek a diagnosis, causes, medication, diet, and what parents and schools can do to help. [PDF]
Frontline: Medicating Kids
- Frontline investigates the growing controversy over ADHD. The site includes interviews with psychologists on all sides of the debate; drug information; federal laws and state legislation; and a resource guide.
Teaching the ADD Child
- Strategies for engaging the ADD child in learning experiences.
LD OnLine: Preventing Antisocial Behavior in Disabled and At-Risk Students
- Information on learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, special education, parenting, and teaching.
ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Information regarding ADHD treatment, symptoms, fact sheet and statistics for parents of children with ADHD.
Twilight Bridge - ADHD
- A comprehensive guide of articles and webcasts for parents, relatives, and carers of a child sufferring from ADHD. It highlights the disease and treatment including both pharmaceutical and behavioral therapy.
ADHD Owner's Manual
- Offers information on educational and behavioral interventions, medication, and tips for teachers. Includes the neurology of ADHD and how it feels to have this disorder.
Spectrum Coaching
- Coaching and support for parents of affected children. Information about legal rights and resources such as books, videos, and organizations.
Notes on ADD
- A marrage, family, and child counselor lists issues and considerations surrounding children with Attention Deficit Disorder.
ADHD-Report
- Collection of articles and information about this disorder, including statistics, diagnostic criteria, education, and treatment. Offers parenting tips newsletter.
San Diego ADHD: Information for Families
- Offers answers to frequently asked questions about attention deficit disorders. Includes definition, common symptoms, available treatments, and parenting strategies.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
- Leaflet offers information about children and ADHD. Includes signs, causes, problems, and how and where to get help in the UK. [PDF]
Parenting ADHD Children
- Online course instructed by a mother of an ADHD child and a counselor dealing with ADHD children and parents.
Dr Sam Goldstein
- Psychologist with expertise in this field. Features articles, lecture dates, publications, and details of clinical services in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Who Put the Ketchup in the Medicine Cabinet?
- Offers a humorous look at life with ADHD/inattentive children. Includes types of attention deficit disorders, to-do list for mom, strategies, recommended reading, newsletters, and articles.
Attention Deficit Disorder: Facts, Prevention and Treatment Strategies
- Articles on ADD/ADHD and nutrition. Includes facts and statistics, prevention and treatment strategies, personal stories, and nutrient supplement kit.
Parenting a Child Newly Diagnosed With ADHD
- Explains the neurological and behavioral aspects of this disorder. Includes what medication can and can't accomplish, restoring self-esteem, building boundaries, and creating consistency.
About Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADD/ADHD
- Offers information on attention deficit disorders in children. Includes diagnosis, causes, social problems, current research, medication, classroom management and parenting tips.
Dr. Cathrin Olsen
- Naturopath offering a drug-free approach to the disorder, with electronic consultations, and clinics in California.
Outside the Box - Helping Misunderstood Kids
- Provides research, original articles, personal testimonies and support in order to better help ADHD/special needs kids succeed in school and in life.
Putting Green Time to the Test
- Read about a father's experiment in whether outdoor activities reduce ADHD symptoms. Includes background on the green-time theory, details of the experiment, and the results on a group of teen boys.
ADHD Info
- Pharmaceutical company site provides information about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder for parents, teachers, and teens, including the use of stimulant medication in treatment.
Classroom Tips for Your ADD Child
- Offers advice for parents of school-age children. Includes definitions, statistics, what to do, who can help, and tips for educators.
ADHD: A Place to Start
- Open letter by the mother of an ADD/ADHD child. Includes symptoms, treatment, assessment, testing, advocacy, IDEA and Section 504, resources, reading, and links to information on other learning and behavior disorders.
The ADHD e-Book
- Chapters include the spectrum of problems; symptoms; home, school, medical, and cognitive therapies; understanding others; information for kids; summary of problems and treatment; humor; and favorite analogies.
ADD/ADHD: What Every Parent Should Know
- Explores aspects of attention deficit disorders in children. Includes symptoms, coexisting conditions, school involvement, diagnosis, family impact, and treatment.
Effective Parenting
- Professional parenting advice from James Windell on children with behavior problems and ADD/ADHD.
ADHD Fact File
- Provides overview and general recommendations for parents. Includes symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and links to additional articles.
The Gift of ADHD
- Presents some of the positive traits found in children with attention deficit disorders. Includes seeing the big picture, the energy of impulse, finding creativity, goofing off, and the importance of being confused.
Attention Deficit - Hyperactivity Disorder
- Guide for parents in understanding and identifying these disorders. Includes what it is, behaviors, treatment, causes, and related articles.
ADHD and Your School-aged Child
- Fact sheet for parents from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Includes symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment information. [PDF]
The Whole Child/Adolescent Center
- Introductory description of the terms, causes, and treatment.
What Signs Indicate Your Child Has ADHD?
- Looks at types of adolescent behavior and whether they might be signs of an attention deficit disorder. Includes examples, questions to ask, symptom guidelines, and when to seek professional help.
Attention Deficit Disorder
- Explains the characteristics that define ADD in children. Includes theory that ADD stems from an inner-ear dysfunction.
ADHD Information Library
- Information for parents and teachers. Diagnosis, treatment options, research, alternative treatment, treatment strategies, parent and teacher resources.
Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatment for Children and Adolescents with AD/HD
- Fact sheet explains behavior therapy for kids and teens with these disorders. Includes behavior treatment and modification, training parents, school and child interventions, medication, and suggested reading.
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