| When it comes to the treatment of Attention | | | | Learning Problems. These interventions include |
| Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or with problems of | | | | adjustments in daily eating habits, counseling |
| Attention, Impulse Control, Over-Activity, or | | | | sessions, and an over-the-counter Nutraceutical |
| Learning Problems in "the real world," there are a | | | | Medicine called "Attend." When combined together, |
| number of approaches to treatment that may | | | | they are very effective. |
| work well. | | | | Every child is different. For unknown reasons, |
| The information in this series has either been | | | | some children respond very well to diet, and |
| gleaned from research on Attention Deficit | | | | some do not. Some respond very well to |
| Disorder - which I'll refer to as ADD or ADD, or it | | | | stimulant medications, and some do not. Some |
| is from my own experience in a clinical setting. | | | | respond very well to Attend, and some do not. |
| Hello, I'm Dr. Doug Cowan. I spent the fifteen | | | | There are a lot of possible explanations for this. |
| years in a private practice as a Marriage, Family, | | | | There may be different root causes that can |
| and Child Therapist, and as a Clinical researcher, | | | | cause the same set of symptoms that we |
| devoted to the treatment of children, teenagers, | | | | ultimately diagnose as ADD, which may explain |
| and adults with attention disorders. During that | | | | why different people may respond so well, or so |
| time it was my privilege to meet and work with | | | | poorly, to any given treatment. You can learn |
| over a thousand individuals, and their families, who | | | | more about the different types of ADHD, and |
| were impacted by this disorder. | | | | find specific treatment interventions for each |
| Then in the year 2001, I closed my clinical practice | | | | type. |
| to focus more of my attention on the ADHD | | | | Every child is different. As a result, we |
| Information Library's family of web sites. Our six | | | | recommend that you look carefully at all of the |
| web sites, which include NewIdeas.net, | | | | possible interventions, and then also take a hard |
| ADD101.com, and ADDinSchool.com, now provide | | | | look at 1) your child, 2) your finances, 3) your |
| information to over 350,000 parents and teachers | | | | insurance coverage, 4) your present eating habits, |
| each year on ADHD, including treatment options, | | | | and 5) the amount of "spare time" that you have |
| parent resources, classroom interventions, a free | | | | in your life to do what it will take to make some |
| newsletter, and much more. | | | | of these interventions work. |
| Throughout this series I'm going to share with | | | | By way of disclaimer, let me say that I am not a |
| you some of the things that I have learned over | | | | medical doctor. My doctorate is in psychology. All |
| the years, and I'm going to also share with you | | | | of the above information is from my clinical |
| some of the very exciting advances that have | | | | observations of treatment interventions used |
| been made in the treatment of Attention Deficit | | | | successfully by my patients over the past fifteen |
| Disorders. | | | | years. Don't be afraid to talk with your physician, |
| It is my opinion that the treatment interventions | | | | psychologist, or counselor about these |
| that we will learn about in this series are all | | | | observations. Consider this information for the |
| effective to one degree or another with problems | | | | sake of education and discussion. |
| with Attention, Impulse Control, Over-Activity, or | | | | |