Description: The WatchMinder and Teen ADHD Management Kit includes: the WatchMinder, two Personal Reminder Cards, ADHD: A Complete and Authoritative Guide, ADHD: 102 Practical Strategies, and The Survival Guide for Teenagers with LD (learning differences). Purchased separately these items would cost over 140 dollars.

PLEASE REMEMBER CARD

This is a great tool for those with short-term memory problems or just too much on their mind!

Suggestions for use:

• Multi-step commands: when assigning a task dictate the commands in the sequence the steps should be carried out

• Homework assignments: children, teachers, or a teacher’s aide can dictate the assignments and the child can bring the card home with them

• Instructions for desk work: dictate the desk work the child needs to complete. The child can listen to card as many times as necessary. Useful for children with attentional problems, auditory processing disorder, weak active memory skills, receptive language problems

• To-do list: when assigning a list of chores dictate each one into the card

• Shopping list

• After school reminder: leave out for your child to listen to when they get home

• Love notes: put one in your child’s lunch box or your honey’s brief case!

• Morning/Evening routine: dictate each step of the routine. Your child can listen to it as many times as necessary. Add a reward activity to the end of the routine to motivate your child.

• Record a phone number you just received

• Remember a parking space

EASY TO USE: Push the switch to ON. When you are ready to record press RECORD the entire time you are speaking. Direct your voice toward the “speaker” on the front of the card. To listen to your message press “LISTEN”. Your card will not record when the switch is pushed to OFF.

The Survival Guide for Teenagers with LD (Learning Differences)

Clear, comprehensive, and matter-of-fact, this guide helps young people with LD succeed in school and prepare for life as adults. It explains what LD is and how kids get into LD programs, clarifies readers' legal rights and responsibilities, and covers other vital topics including assertiveness, jobs, friends, dating, self-sufficiency, and responsible citizenship.

200 pages, illustrated, softcover, 6" x 9", teens, ages 13 and up

ADHD: 102 Strategies for Reducing the Deficit By Kim "Tip" Frank, Ed.S.L.P.C.

Susan J. Smith-Rex, Ed.D.

This best seller on ADD/ADHD is a concise, easy-to-follow resource that features powerful strategies to help ADD/ADHD students improve their academic and social/emotional abilities. The authors present 102 ways parents and professionals can help children and adolescents cope with and overcome ADHD. Included are checklists and charts to help with organizational skills.

Using a brief and quick reference format, this book shows you how the “deficit” in ADD/ADHD can be reduced in children and adolescents.

This resource is immediately useable for professionals, educators and parents. It includes:

--Understanding and Treating ADHD

--Strategies & Accommodations for School & Home

--Establishing Patterns of Success

Paperback, 92 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, ages five to 17 years

ADHD: A Complete and Authoritative Guide

Edited by Michael I. Reiff, M.D., F.A.A.P.,

Editor-in-Chief and with Sherill Tippins,

Illustrations by Anthony Alex LeTourneau

Backed by the medical authority of the American Academy of Pediatrics

This comprehensive guide to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) offers parents balanced, reassuring, and authoritative information to help them understand and manage this challenging and often misunderstood condition. Based on the American Academy of Pediatrics' own clinical practice guidelines for ADHD and written in clear, accessible language, this book answers the common questions: How is ADHD diagnosed?, What are today's best treatment options, and Will my child outgrow ADHD? Accurate, up-to-date findings on evaluation and diagnosis, coexisting conditions, and unproven treatments are provided. Also addressed are behaviors associated with the teenage years and what schools can do to support children with the condition. ADHD management strategies that balance the roles of behavior therapy, medications, and parenting techniques are suggested.

American Academy of Pediatrics is the world's largest association of pediatricians. Its 57,000 member pediatricians dedicate their efforts and resources to the health, safety, and well-being of infants, children, teenagers, and young adults. Michael I. Reiff, MD, FAAP, is an associate professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. He lives in Golden Valley, Minnesota. Sherill Tippins is the author of Two of Us Make a World and the coauthor of The New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding and Guide to Toilet Training. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

5.5 x 8.5, 355 pages

WatchMinder: The stylish WatchMinder2 personal assistant is here to help! This terrific device looks like a sports wristwatch and displays text messages like MEDS, RELAX or PAY ATTN up to 30 times a day. It is private reminder system with a vibration (or beep) alert. Use any of the 60 preprogrammed messages or create your own personal reminders. All of this is done without a computer or paging service.

The WatchMinder has many advantages over a traditional watch. A wrist watch is loud, disruptive, and not ideal for the classroom environment. Second, most wrist watches could only be programmed for a limited number of reminders per day. The WatchMinder watch is programmable up to thirty alarm vibrating alarms per day.

The WatchMinder is being used by children and adults with Attention Deficit Disorder, as well as persons with chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, urinary incontinence, and asthma. Senior citizens are using the watch to manage medication intake and hard of hearing persons benefit from the vibration system in the watch. The watch has also been utilized in research studies and has been a useful tool in clinical trials research. Because the WatchMinder is a vibrating, silent alarm and reminder system, it can be worn by these people and others like them, with minimal disruption to the user or those around him.

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