Jun

27

When a parent feels guilt

Posted by preciouschild

June 27, 2009 | 5 Comments

I’m sure that most parents of kids with special needs can identify with this - that feeling of guilty, or responsibility for the problems your child has.
I am no different. I have tendencies that are somewhat obsessive and compulsive but I wouldn’t exactly say I’m OCD. I do have attention deficit issues of my own. [...]

Apr

26

Tips for ADHD. . .

Posted by preciouschild

April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Since my son has ADHD and I also have attention deficit issues I am always looking for tips to help.
Here’s one - and I’m always looking for more!
Break things into single actions. Instead of a long list of instructions, it’s best to break things down into tiny bites.  I give my K-Oz one task at [...]

Sep

6

Share More …

Posted by preciouschild

September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

      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. [...]

Sep

5

Friday Share

Posted by preciouschild

September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This week we’ve been talking about ADD and Michael Phelps has recently become a poster “child” for ADD awareness. His mother, a lifelong educator and currently employed as a middle-school principal, shared some of the accomodations she made in addressing Michael’s “issues” as a youngster in an interviw for ADDitude magazine.
“At age seven, he hated [...]

Sep

3

Definition: Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD)

Posted by preciouschild

September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

What is AD/HD?
We may all occasionally have difficulty sitting still, paying attention, or controlling impulsive behavior. But for some children and adults, the problem is so pervasive and persistent that it interferes with their daily lives at home, at school, at work, and in social settings.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) is a neurobiological disorder. It is characterized [...]

Aug

22

Friday Share

Posted by preciouschild

August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

 Faces of Tourette’s … Carter Stone and Ed Buckner, weatherman for KTHV-TV in Little Rock, tour the station. Buckner ”came out” with his personal struggles ever since he developed eye tics as a child which would later be diagnosed as TS.  He gives away free copies of his video explaining what he went through and tells parents, “Love your children for [...]

Aug

21

Ways & Means - No Cure for Tourette’s, but…

Posted by preciouschild

August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The goals of treating Tourette Syndrome should not be to completely eliminate all the tics and other symptoms that a patient has, but to relieve tic-related discomfort or embarrassment and to achieve a control of Tourette Syndrome symptoms that allows the patient to function as normally as possible.
Tourette Syndrome Tics only require treatment when they [...]

Mar

24

Monday Headlines

Posted by preciouschild

March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

CMU Researchers Try to Answer Some Questions About Self-Control
CMU associate professor of psychology Mark Reilly along with experimental psychology graduate students Andrew Fox and Dennis Hand are one step closer to helping those that suffer from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, improve their self-control.
Students with Disabilities Get an Extra Hand in Transition to College
It was Jennifer [...]

Mar

18

Featured Tuesday Blogger

Posted by preciouschild

March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment

What is your name and where do you live?
Babs Mountjoy, aka awalkabout, and we live in northwest Pennsylvania.
Your website?
Awalkabout’s Weblog
Your kids’ names, ages, and disabilities?
Captain Oblivious, 12, dxed with Asperger’s Syndrome, Little Miss, 8, classic autism and sensory integration disorder, and Ditto Boy, 9, ADD, these are still at home. I also have [...]

Mar

11

Featured Tuesday Blogger

Posted by preciouschild

March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

What is your name and where do you live?
My name is Deborah Nickerson and I live in Richmond, Virginia
What is your website?
My website is titled “Pipecleaner Dreams.”
What are your kids’ names, ages, and disabilities?
I have four children. My oldest and my birth son is Chip. He is 17 years old, and an exceptionally [...]

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