| Non medicinal treatment of ADHD can cover | | | | aggression and there was an improvement in their |
| anything from counselling, family therapy and child | | | | social skills. |
| behavior modification. They all have one thing in | | | | Results in the classroom |
| common and that is that they aim to teach the | | | | In the classroom, the improvement in these |
| child coping skills in managing day to day events, | | | | behaviours was even more noticeable and |
| at school and in making friends. If the child is | | | | teachers found that literacy skills had improved by |
| taught these, that is half the battle. | | | | at least three times. It was found that they key |
| SOS Nanny | | | | to success was intervening at this early age. The |
| There is a popular program on Italian TV at the | | | | results were lasting and the children are definitely |
| moment which is called 'SOS Nanny'. The nanny | | | | much better equipped for life and much more |
| observes the family for the first few days and | | | | likely to overcome the challenges associated with |
| then recommends and supervises an action plan | | | | ADHD. |
| to get the family back on track. All the episodes | | | | Academic tasks with teenagers |
| seem to be a repeat in that the same problems | | | | Another interesting approach, this time with |
| crop up again and again!. There are no structured | | | | teenagers with ADHD, as done at the Summer |
| routines, TV dominates the household and children | | | | Teaching Program led by Dr Pelham and Dr Evans |
| are incapable of feeding themselves and or even | | | | at the University of Buffalo. They found that |
| sleeping on their own. Giving children adequate | | | | when they taught these kids to take notes, there |
| support, and especially ADHD children, is probably | | | | was a positive improvement in comprehension, |
| the best and most effective non medicinal | | | | longer attention span and much less disruptive |
| treatment of ADHD which exists to-day. | | | | behavior. They were able to tie this in with a |
| Research at Lehigh | | | | behavioral program where there were very clear |
| The same sort of non medicinal treatment of | | | | expectations of behavior linked with |
| ADHD has been tried by researchers at the | | | | consequences and rewards. This is at the heart of |
| Lehigh University's College of Education. The study | | | | any child behavior modification program. |
| was called "Project Achieve" and the group was | | | | So, there you have it. Most research has indicated |
| about a hundred pre school children of between | | | | the value of non medicinal treatment of ADHD |
| three and five years old which had some ADHD | | | | especially in the field of behavioral studies. Parents |
| symptoms. It took five years to complete the | | | | have found that when this is combined with |
| study and it was funded by the NIMH | | | | ADHD homeopathic remedies, the chances of a |
| Through the same sort of behavioural support | | | | child overcoming ADHD with success and |
| and child behavior modification approaches, the | | | | happiness is much greater than merely popping |
| results were remarkable. Teachers too noticed | | | | amphetamine pills! |
| them. Overall, the children displayed less | | | | |