Understanding Girls With AD/HD

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Summary: An Indispensible Resource for the Family of the ADHD Girl
Review: After several months of trying to determine what was wrong with my daughter and having her professionally evaluated, we learned she has ADHD. I did have some knowledge of this condition, primarily as it relates to boys. Reading Nadeau's book has been a liberating experience for me and so enlightening as I've grown in my awareness of the many facets of ADHD as it applies to females. She describes in very practical terms the challenges such a girl is likely to face daily, as well as the talents she might have. The book is HOPEFUL. I saw my daughter in this book. I intend to share it with our pediatrician and will spread the word about this book.

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Summary: One of the best overviews out there
Review: As the father of two girls who some might label as "having ADD," I found this book both enlightening and reassuring. As a psychotherapist who writes and works in the field of ADHD, I found it solid, well-informed, and useful. Highly recommended...

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Summary: A super useful book!
Review: As the mother of an 8-year-old ADHD girl, I can't recommend this book enough. It has been totally invaluable in learning to understand and love her (and all her quirks - like chewing on her hair and clothes -- who would have thought that was ADHD related? ) Furthermore, in addition to very valuable and practical information I can use now for her while she is in elementary school, there are sections that I know I will come back to (or read to anticipate) what will go on as she grows older. I think of this book as the "what to expect when you are expecting" book for living with ADHD girls! This is a great book and I, for one, am very grateful that the authors have written this.

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Summary: A Must for Parents and Profs. for Girls with ADHD
Review: I have worked with special need children for almost 25 years. This book is groundbreaking, easy to read, practicle and will help parents stratagize better in dealing with their ADHD daughters. It will also be of great use to professionals working with these children. It shows clearly the differences for ADHD girls. Buy it right away, don't wait for this special knowledge that can help your child.

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Summary: The Only Book You Will Ever Need Re: Girls With AD/HD
Review: I second all the other reviewers. I found my daughter on every page and could not put it down. I agree, it is a bible for AD/HD. You will be so comforted that you found a book that you can totally identify with. You'll think she is writing about your very own daughter! The reading is so easy & simple. You won't need any other books and will refer back to it over and over. A must-read for educators, mental health professionals, and parents.

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Summary: ADHD guidlelines are skewed for hyperactive males
Review: Laymen and clinicians need to understand that ADD/ADHD guidelines primarily reflect observations of boys with hyperactivity, and that ADD is neither a deficit nor a disorder. (A name change for our differences would help too.) I am former law enforcement officer and a registered nurse who was finally treated at age 49 after 32 years of being labelled clinically depressed. (Accurate but grossly incomplete.) After decades of overachieving, perfectionistic behavior and being told to "try harder", I finally found a psychiatrist and therapist who knew enough about ADD to treat me. BE AWARE clinicians,even psychiatrists, are not diagnosing girls because we are compliant, nice and "people pleasers". The stats stun: 75% of all people incarcerated may have ADD (undiagnosed) and 60 % of inmates have mental illnesses. Nadeau and Quinn give us tangible, specific ways to improve our lives and that of those around us. I heartily recommend this for all law enforcement personnel, mental health workers, judicial system personnel,and child care workers as well as parents and teachers. We can pinpoint the differences in people. especially girls, with ADD early and provide support and encouagement to avoid lifetimes of much heartache,despair, and shame. I hope that people discard the stereotype that ADD only happens to boys and if you aren't bouncing off walls or being the class clown, you are not suffering. Nadeau and Quinn eloquently illustrate this.

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Summary: Wonderful
Review: Thank you Nadeau, Littman and Quinn for this book! It is written by women, for women, about girls who will grow up to be women, which I loved. After all, whether or not you have a liberated husband or partner, here in South Africa it's usually mum who actually sits and oversees daughter's homework each day, shleps her to occupational therapy, speech therapy, remedial, physio or whatever and bears the brunt of the classroom problems and emotional follow-up. This book also covers the dreamy or distractible AD/HD girl quite thoroughly, which I personally was looking for information on. I found the chapter on brain development was a bit technical, but I presume professionals would appreciate it. Overall the clinical tone is a bit sobering, as the authors don't hold back with all the bad things that can happen to a child suffering with AD/HD. It's scary to think what the teenage years of my AD/HD seven-year-old may throw up (drug and/or alcohol abuse, promiscuity, eating disorders, teen sulks and temper tantrums de luxe), but also reassuring to hear that others have walked that path and survived. It's also fascinating to think my child's tactile defensiveness may be linked to AD/HD, and not a separate issue as we had thought. Similarly, the link to learning disabilities, all of which goes towards building up a better understanding and more appropriate interventions. What was so weird was that I could see parts of my daugher and myself in so many of the case histories, aspects which I'd never really noticed in other readings on AD/HD. My only problem with this book is that it was very expensive for a South African customer to order - the postage alone cost more than $22, which is about R200, and import tax a further R56. It would have been cheaper to order from the authors' addvance.com website, but I only realised this after getting the book. However, it's a reference I'll use for years to come and will lend to other parents of AD/HD girls (and our paediatrician, our occupational therapist, school psychologist and whoever else!).

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Summary: The ONLY book on Girls with ADHD...
Review: The authors of this incredible book put into words what I've wanted to say for years, but still struggle to make someone understand. Girls with ADD, especially those who are succeeding academically, will rarely be diagnosed unless parents, educators and child care providers educate themselves. This book should be required reading for every educator in our country.

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Summary: The ONLY book on Girls with ADHD...
Review: The authors of this incredible book put into words what I've wanted to say for years, but still struggle to make someone understand. Girls with ADD, especially those who are succeeding academically, will rarely be diagnosed unless parents, educators and child care providers educate themselves. This book should be required reading for every educator in our country.

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Summary: Good information, liberal viewpoint
Review: This book does contain some good information about ADHD characteristics, some of which apply to boys as well as girls. However, potential readers need to understand the very liberal viewpoint the author writes with. There is a great deal of cricticism of the past underdiagnosis of girls as gender discrimination. I don't see the benefit of this. The book's focus is less on practical helps and more on feelings and self-esteem.