Individuals with ADHD and ADD often have difficulty with Executive Skills, also called Executive Functions. These are the skills that help us manage and direct our lives. They are analogous to the activities that an executive engages in to manage and direct a company or business.

Executive skills allow us to plan and organize our behavior, make well-considered decisions, overrule immediate desires in favor of longer-term goals, take conscious control of our emotions, and monitor our thoughts in order to work more efficiently and effectively.

One meaning of the term “bracketing” is “to place within.” This concept of “placing within” is a helpful strategy that students and adults can use to identify and appropriately deal with distracting thoughts.

In stage one, students decide whether their current thoughts are appropriate for the task at hand. If they are not, students can bracket them in stage two.

It is very helpful to teach students (and adults) to classify thoughts into three groups.

ADD and ADHD problems can be triggered by subtle food allergies. Read how one child's symptoms were relieved when wheat was removed from his diet. Learn more about other foods and how they can affect ADD and ADHD related issues.

# ADD and ADHD can lead to everyday challenges, especially in the area of focus. These three questions can help you design an individualized program that can improve focus right away.

Attention Deficit Disorder leads many people to believe that ADD and ADHD mean a lack of focus. Try these seven questions to solve most focus and learning issues with ADD/ADHD children and adults.

"I just finished reading this book and I have decided that I am ADD." "I saw a TV show about ADHD. I have it and so does my son." "My daughter's teacher says she asks too ma

What educational format is best for the ADD/ADHD child? As a parent, there are many choices, and increasingly popular choices, to public education. While making a decision may seem more difficult in the case of ADD/ADHD, the process is the same for the parent of any child.

This article discusses an internal-language based remedial approach to ADHD and Executive Functional Impairments, as derived from research and theoretical assumptions about frontal lobe brain function.

Were you a question machine when you were a kid? How come dogs can poop outside, but you won't let me? Why do raspberries have seeds? How do you know for sure that Santa Claus is watching me every single day? Doesn't he have more important things to do?

It is estimated that there are over 2.5 million people who are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. The majority of these are boys. As a mother of a boy and a teacher, I have seen first hand the evidence of this, and I have to ask why we, as a nation, are content to medicate these beautiful, brilliant children instead of questioning the methods of teaching and choosing alternative educational settings for them.