Welcome to this week's Dealing With Learning Disorders Newsletter.

This week's Featured Article is ADHD in Teens

In this article I touched on several key areas that affect teens with ADHD, which include:

1. ADHD may not be diagnosed until they are a teen.

2. ADHD teens can be less mature than other teens.

3. An ADHD teen can be easily distracted which can make driving especially dangerous.

4. ADHD teens may be more apt to try drugs or alcohol as a way to cope.


Some things that can help teens with ADHD are:

1. Home education.

2. Family counseling and communication.

3. Regular exercise.

4. A change in diet.

5. Encouraging the ADHD teen to communicate their condition to their friends.

6. Help them discover what they are passionate about, then support them in all they do to become successful in that area.

There is no one single solitary cure-all answer. And one-size-fits-all doesn't work with ADHD, or any teen for that matter. Tailoring a total treatment plan is something your doctor can do or he may refer you to an ADHD specialist.

Be patient and love your teen for who God create him to be.


Discussion Group News

In our “Discussion Group” we talk about many interesting topics every week.
Here we find a private place to share with others, make friends, and ask questions of the Featured Experts on the site.

This week some of the topics we talked about were:

1. ADHD Awareness Week
The free classes were posted so we could join in if we wanted.

2. One member shared with us all the cute puppies her family has been raising. She talked about how this has changed their schedule and how she really wants to get back to normal.

3. I shared this quote about having patience, something I aspire to have more of everyday.

Impatience stems almost solely from our exaggerated notions of what is due us. If we could but lower our estimation of the importance of our time, our plans, and our feelings, we would find ourselves almost automatically more patient.

Patience is a……positive trait. It is the ability to bear affliction, delay and interruption with calmness, perseverance and confidence in the goodness of God. It is inward peace as well as outward control. It is the submission of our schedules, our viewpoints and our dreams to the greater plan of God, with the conviction that He has a good reason for every delay He allows to come our way.

Come join us! See what all the talk's about.


Tip of the Week

One of the things I've learned that has been helpful to our family is to involve your child in helping
someone else.

Too often children with learning disabilities fall into the "poor me" syndrome. Parents can put a stop to this while boosting their child's self-confidence by giving him or her the opportunity to help someone else.

Children with learning disabilities can successfully tutor younger children, help the elderly, work in homeless shelters, and babysit for other moms. Even very young children can serve others successfully.

Help your child find what they can do to be a service to others and this will also be a blessing to them.

Until next week.

Robin Dicks
www.DealingWithLearningDisorders.com