Resources for AD/HD

Books
  • ADHD expert and author Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. shares Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life (subtitle) in CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About To Snap! His ideas also apply to people who do not have a diagnosis of ADHD.

  • After discussing a paradigm shift, the current concept of ADD, and a new view of ADD, Fidget to Focus authors Roland Rotz, Ph.D. and Sarah D. Wright discuss reasons and approaches for implementing “fidget strategies” into different facets of life.
  • Written in easily read snippets, More Attention, Less Deficit: Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD by Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA is a comprehensive book about ADHD.
  • For Survival Tips for Women with AD/HD Terry Matlen, M.S.W. collected tried and true tips from women around the world with AD/HD. The reader can read brief tips which will assist them in every facet of daily life.
  • In Add-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life the common obstacles that people with ADD encounter when they take on a project are identified. Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D. give specific suggestions for how to organize things, time, and paper in ways that will allow people with ADD to experience success.
  • In Journeys Through ADDulthood, Sari Solden discusses the journey a person takes from feeling they are a little "different" from everyone else to learning to successfully navigate their world as a person who has AD/HD. She gives practical advice and real life stories to illustrate her points.
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