“Flexiture” is a unique combination of flexibility and structure that empowers parents and teachers to solve big and small problems faced by consistently inconsistent children and students who struggle with ADD/ADHD and related executive functions.
ADHD is one of the most researched and most misunderstood medical disorders. Much of the confusion occurs because the terms “attention deficit” and “hyperactivity” describe only the surface features of this challenge: these difficulties are just the tip of the iceberg: the problems of the child or teen with ADHD are much broader and deeper than this. Internationally recognized expert, Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D. suggests that the core challenge is actually the inability to stop and think before acting; even problems focusing involve inhibiting one’s response to other things go on around him or her. In chapter one, we’ll explore some surprising aspects of these three surface features of the ADHD iceberg.
Even more misunderstandings occur because ADD/ADHD symptoms are quite often different in boys and girls and men and women: we’ll discover these differences in chapter 2.
Although at first glance, they add more confusion to an already confusing situation, understanding your child’s executive functioning strengths and weaknesses can actually shed some light on the size of the ADHD iceberg (and challenges) hidden beneath the surface. In turn, this understanding can help you how to best help your child. We’ll undertake this extremely enlightening information in chapter three.
Finally, all the confusion is further exacerbated by language and learning weaknesses commonly seen in children, teens, and adults with ADD/ADHD. In chapter 7, you will learn why your child or teen with ADHD struggles with learning and why ADHD is not a learning disorder.
In the remaining chapters, you will learn how to apply a number of flexibly structured strategies designed to help your child or teen with ADHD be more successful in the classroom, on the playground, and in life.
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