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September 6, 2008 |

ty-penington.jpg      I wanted to share a bit more with you on ADD… I forgot to mention Ty Pennington, handyman on TV’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He has suffered with attention deficit disorder since childhood. Back then, however, it was termed Minimal Brain Dysfunction.  His mother hid the diagnosis from Ty. “Imagine hearing that,” she said. “He already felt like a bad kid.” His mother, Yvonne, was a graduate student conducting research for a phsycology class when she stumbled on the attention-deficit moniker.

She developed a token reward system and coerced the teachers into giving it a try. Ty responded to the tokens and was able to channel his energies. Yvonne said, “Ty’s manic energy wasn’t always an asset.” But, at age 11, he swapped his comic books for his friends’ help in building a three-story tree house. “I knew he’d grow up to be a carpenter or a Hollywood stuntman,” she said.

For more information go to www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/1982-2.html

Check out this site written by a mother http://www.livingwadhd.com/

AND Set. 14th - 20th is National AD/HD Awareness Week ….. Be an encourager to someone you know who has the diagnosis.


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