On Their Own: Creating an Independent Future for Your Adult Child with Learning Disabilities and ADHD: A Family Guide
Author: Anne Ford
An indispensable guide to the special challenges faced by parents of learning-disabled children as they enter adulthood, by the author of Laughing Allegra, a leading activist and parent of an adult child with LD.
In 2003 Anne Ford (great-granddaughter of Henry Ford) published Laughing Allegra, about the struggles of raising her learning-disabled daughter, and received a flood of letters from parents of children with LD, ADD, and ADHD, many expressing concerns about what to do as their children age.
On Their Own is an invaluable road map to ease these parents' fears and answer their questions, especially the one that haunts them daily: Will or can their child be on their own, and how? In a candid, sympathetic style, laced with real-life stories, the book covers such topics as:
• Social skills and dating
• Staying healthy
• Sibling relationships
• Interaction with employers and co-workers
• Job hunting
• Finding the right college or trade school
• Estate planning
Also included are a comprehensive resource guide and exclusive interviews with prominent professionals who have surmounted their learning disabilities: CEO's Sir Richard Branson, John Chambers, David Neeleman, and Charles Schwab, and former governor Gaston Caperton.
Table of Contents:
Foreword Sally Shaywitz, M. D viiIntroduction: "Now What Do I Do?" xiii
The Adult with Learning Disabilities
"So What Is It?" 3
Signs and Symptoms 9
Allegra: A Portrait of My Daughter 17
Relationships
The Parent-Child Bond: Learning to Let Go 27
Brothers and Sisters 39
Friends 48
Dating 64
Marriage and Parenting 72
After High-School Graduation Day: The College Student with LD and ADHD
Is College an Option? 81
Before Graduation Day: Transitions from High School 85
The Fearful Student: Finding Your Child's Interests 93
LD, ADHD, and the SAT 98
How to Find the Right College 104
Financial Aid 112
The GED: A Second Chance 119
The College Student with LD or ADHD 123
The Helicopter Parent 130
On the Job: Employing the Adult with LD and ADHD
Defining Success 135
Business 101 143
"Show Me Spark!": Corporate America and the Adult with LD 158
Motivation 165
Managing on Their Own: Life Concerns for the Adult with LD and ADHD
Staying Healthy 177
Medication and ADHD 200
The Fine Print 208
Estate Planning 214
Interviews: Advice for Parents from Prominent People with LD
Introduction Betsy Morris 225
Sir Richard Branson, Chairman and CEO, Virgin Group 228
Gaston Caperton, President, College Board, former Governor of West Virginia 236
John Chambers, President and CEO, Cisco Systems 245
David Neeleman, Founder and CEO, JetBlue Airways 257
Charles Schwab, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Charles Schwab & Co. 264
Epilogue 274
Acknowledgments 279
Resource Guide 281
Index 297
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Treatment of Anxiety and Panic with Bach Flower Remedies: God's Own Medicine
Author: Estella Ritter
Book Title The Treatment of Anxiety & Panic with Bach Flower Remedies The AuthorEstella Ritter, B.F.R.P.
Book Category Self Help, Alternative Medicine Book Description Practical, comprehensive help for stress related anxiety and
anxiety disorders.
Anxiety being the main mental health concern for women, and second only to substance abuse in men, The Treatment of Anxiety & Panic with Bach Flower Remedies offers both a practical and comprehensive guide to everyone struggling with panic attacks, anxiety attacks, social fears, generalized anxiety, or obsessive compulsive behaviors.Representing a fluid, self-directed process to emotional healing the goal of the technique is to present a very contemporary, user-friendly, and immediate response to emotional distress.Working by specifically targeting every type of negative state of mind reveals an amazing, subtle energy approach that is neither created in the language of pop culture, nor new age therapy.By explaining step-by-step how to use one of the most effective healing tools nature has provided to us, this book in a non-clinical voice, addresses the debilitating impact of anxiety, and shows how to effectively overcome anxiety driven symptoms in order to achieve a lasting recovery. Rather than just covering up and continuing to suppress emotional difficulties with drugs, this book supplies the tools needed to manage anxiety, and after that to resolve emotional problems
The information can be used to develop one's own self-help program, or, as an adjunct to other healing modalities, the technique will reliably deliver clarity and a lifetime of emotional assistance.
Thanks so much for the information on "On Their Own" by Anne Ford; this sounds like a wonderful book that meets a real need.
ReplyDeleteAnother book that may have special applicability to your readers is Portable Parent, a wonderful new down-loadable book on going to college, going into a first apartment, and job-hunting. It has specific information on social and academic skills that apply to all students, as well as sections on coping with ADD and LD in a college setting and when finding employment. It is designed so parents can add their own comments to a few sections. It can be found at www.portableparent.com.
Thanks again for the information you have provided!