Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #433469 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-30
• Released on: 2006-05-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 4-6–Profiles of successful entrepreneurs, educators, artists, athletes, and musicians, all of whom reached their success in spite of–or, as they sometimes claim, because of–ADD. The entries are sandwiched between advice from Edward Hallowell, a physician with ADD who has experience treating children and adults with the syndrome, and questions and answers about it. The stories are informative and inspiring, obviously written to help children understand the realities of living with the disorder. Great care has been taken to provide insight from both men and women, and African Americans and whites, but the writing is uninspired, and often stilted and dull. In spite of this, there is much to recommend this book: the variety of the people, the solutions that individuals have found for working and living with ADD, and the frank discussions of medications. This book, with its many discussion topics, may be best used as a read-aloud in a family where children and/or adults have ADD.–Wendy Smith-DArezzo, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD
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From Booklist
Gr. 7-10. "You're like a toaster! You just pop up all the time." James Carville remembers his mother's exasperated comment in this inspiring book, which profiles 17 adults who began dealing with attention deficit disorder in childhood. Along with political strategist Carville, subjects include a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, a major league pitcher, and a young Rhodes scholar. If their life paths are diverse, their stories of struggle and miserable school days are strikingly similar. The authors, parents of ADD children, wanted to write a book about "real people who have struggled with ADD and won the match." Without sugarcoating the problems, their positive book presents concrete advice from happy, successful adults. The text is well designed for readers with ADD; short chapters are broken into sections delineated by lively headings that are printed in boldface type. A list of resources and an informative question-and-answer section round out an encouraging, helpful book for teens with ADD as well as for their parents, teachers, and friends. Lynn Rutan
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About the Author
CATHERINE A. CORMAN lives with her husband and their twelve-year-old triplets, all of whom have learning differences and ADD. A former assistant professor of history at Harvard University, with a Ph.D. from Yale’s Program in American Studies, Catherine has spent the past two years interviewing successful adults with ADD.

Edward M. HALLOWELL, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard College, Tulane Medical School, and a Harvard Residency Program in Adult and Child Psychiatry. He is the
best-selling author of Driven to Distraction, Worry, and Connect, and has been featured
on 20/20, Dateline, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Oprah.
www.drhallowell.com

Customer Reviews

Should be read by everyone with ADD



Excellent easy-to-read book about how various, successful people have managed their diagnosis of ADD. Everyone with the ADD label, especially children, should read this collection of stories to receive inspiration and learn that they are not alone. In the AA program, alcoholics share their stories of experience, strength, and hope. This book passes on the experience, strength, and hope of real people who have ADD or ADHD. It is written at a level that most kids would understand.

This is the only book of it's kind. If it wasn't this could be likely 3 stars.
This book didn't inspire me; I'm an Adult with ADD, and with other neorological special needs. And 16 out of 17 personal Adult ADD stories were of people with only diagnosed ADD/ADHD and no other special needs. The 16 also weren't diagnosed till adulthood as such encouraging mostly those without moderate to severe ADD symptoms and saying it's okay to be diagnosed late in life rather then earlier. It should have stories of people who struggled more and some more people with dual diagnosis. Preferably ones who were diagnosed earlier in life to. However, If you are defiantly without more then one or two special issues and may have not to severe ADD/ADHD this might be a very good book for you. It is written for children but, adults could definantly benifit from it also. And the author is one of the leader's in the feild. I love that it's hardback to! Not everyone's stories are of famous people which could be a good thing to. This specific format of this book is greatly needed. Positive success stories, however, it could be likely better.