Vad är adhd? Små utdrag med mina kommentarer.
Alla kan
ibland ha svårt för att sitta still eller så gör man något
utan att tänka sig för. Så är det om man är stressad till
exempel. Men för en del barn och vuxna är det här ett stort
problem. Problemen är så stora att de har svårt att leva
vanliga liv.
Vad är ett
"vanligt" liv? Alla lever vi olika liv. Alla upplever vi
olika saker i våra "vanliga" liv. Alla har vi olika
verklighetsuppfattningar. Vad hade hänt om man låtit
personer med s k bokstavsdiagnoser leva sina liv efter sina
normer? (Cina)
Då säger man
att de har ett funktionshinder som kallas adhd eller ibland
damp.
Det är ungefär
som att bli mobbad - man kallar dig vissa saker för att du
inte lever upp till de normer som vissa har bestämt ska vara
giltiga. (Cina)
Det handlar om
att man har svårt att intressera sig för något en längre
tid.
Vem har
bestämt att man måste intressera sig av en sak en längre
tid? Varför är detta viktigt egentligen? (Cina)
Man gör saker
utan att tänka sig för. Man rör sig hela tiden och kan inte
sitta still.
Hur hade det
fungerat om alla de som inte kunde sitta still gjorde något
annat istället? (Cina)
ADD
Alla barn med adhd
har inte svårt att sitta still.
En del är tvärtom lite mer långsamma och stilla än vanliga
barn.
Då kallar man det för ADD.
Detta är inte
klokt! Snart har man diagnoser för hur alla människor är -
bara för att de är människor och olika. (Cina)
DAMP
Om ett barn
med adhd är klumpigt och har svårt att hålla reda på armar
och ben så kan man kalla funktionshindret för DAMP.
Se kommentaren
ovan. Om man inte hade delat in människors sätt att vara i
normer så hade inte någon reagerat på hur andra är. Då hade
det inte varit ett funktionshinder. (Cina)
Svårt att
intressera sig länge för något.
Vem bestämmer
att man måste det? (Cina)
Barn eller
vuxna med adhd verkar inte höra vad andra säger...
Okoncentrerade eller i en annan värld?
(Cina)
...de kan ha
svårt att förstå vad de ska göra...
Kan det vara
vi som räknas till de normala som har svårt att förmedla vad
vi vill att de ska göra på ett för dem begripligt sätt? (Cina)
...de är
slarviga...
Sen när blev
att vara slarvig en diagnos? (Cina)
...har svårt
att börja göra något...
Vad är "att
göra något"? Gör man inte något om man så bara tittar ut
genom fönstret? (Cina)
...de tröttnar
fort...
Lägg märke
till ordet "de". Hur vore det om vi vänder på det och säger
att vi tycker att man måste hålla på med saker länge därför
ska vi ha en diagnos och bli behandlade med medicin som gör
att vi inte vill hålla på med saker länge. (Cina)
...gör inte
klart det som de har börjat att göra, de glömmer bort och
tappar saker...
Glömska kan
bero på kemikalier, gifter och/eller miljöpåverkan. (Cina)
En del blir
mycket störda om något händer i rummet...
Läs om
introvert personlighet.
(Cina)
Andra vill
ofta att det ska hända något annars blir de uttråkade...
Läs om
extrovert personlighet. (Cina)
De har alla
svårt att göra något en längre tid och att göra klart något
om det är tråkigt.
Detta tycker
jag är viktigt. Varför ska t ex alla lära sig matte vid
samma ålder? Varför är skolan inte byggd för individen och
följer den enskilda individens mognadsgrad? Varför ska den
enskilda individen lära sig en sak bara för att vi har
bestämt att vid t ex 7 års ålder ska man lära sig läsa, om
den lilla individen inte är mogen eller om han/hon på något
sätt behöver lära sig något annat före alla läsövningar? (Cina)
De har också
svårt att förstå vad som är viktigt och inte viktigt.
Observera: Det
är vi (samhället) som har bestämt vad som är viktigt. Detta
betyder inte att det är viktigt för den enskilda individen.
Men vi tvingar ändå den enskilda individen till något som VI
anser är viktigt. Låt alla leva i/med sin verklighet - alla
är vi människor ändå. Låt oss respektera detta och låt oss
bygga en "skola" som "ser" alla. Man kan undra varför barn
med bokstavsdiagnoser fungerar bättre inom
Waldorfpedagogiken?
(Cina)
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One
reason people accept the theory of ADD as a
brain "defect" is the underlying belief that
there are only normal people and sick people,
and any significant variation from normal
must be a sickness.
Born To Explore |
SKOLMILJÖ
Om
skolmiljön
(på ett konventionellt sätt)
"För
ett barn med perceptionsstörningar blir det svårt att
lära sig rita, läsa och skriva. det blir svårt att
minnas bilder och bokstäver, se skillnad på b, d och p
och att känna igen i vilken ordningsföljd bokstäverna
ska stå och åt vilket håll man ska skriva. För ett barn
med auditiva och visuella perceptionsstörningar kan en
dag i skolan bli outhärdlig då de många ljud och
synintrycken blir kaotiska. Datorernas fläktar surrar,
stolsben skrapar i golvet, kamrater som pratar med
varandra då de samarbetar, barn som rör sig ut och in i
klassrummet. Ljudintrycken kan bli så övermäktiga att
inte barnet uppfattar lärarens instruktioner."
Lägg märke
till att man säger att barnet har en
"perceptionsstörning". Om man vänder på steken och säger
att skolan har "fel utbud" så hamnar barnets
personlighet inte i fokus, utan skolan. Vad kan man göra
för att få en skola som är byggd för alla
"personligheter"? Hur kan vi ta tillvara allas
egenskaper? Man kan också jämföra detta med
hur det är att t ex ha en
Introvert personlighet.
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Why Do So Many Smart Children With
ADD Fail In Our Public Schools?
Thom Hartmann
Utdrag Ur:
How Kids Learn...and Learn...and
Learn
Romey
Pittman
"Education
critic John Holt's description of how educators might
teach babies to talk demonstrates wonderfully the
counterproductivity of traditional teaching methods:
First,
some committee of experts would analyze speech and break
it down into a number of separate "speech skills." We
would probably say that, since speech is made up of
sounds, a child must be taught to make all the sounds of
his language before he can be taught to speak the
language itself. Doubtless we would list these sounds,
easiest and commonest ones first, harder and rarer ones
next. Then we would begin to teach infants these sounds,
working our way down the list. . . Everything would be
planned, with nothing left to chance; there would be
plenty of drill, review and tests, to make sure that he
had not forgotten anything.
Imagine
how devastating this process would be for children
trying to learn to talk. Most kids in school get tired
of being required to regurgitate things for which they
have not been allowed to make meaning. Real learning
either begins to shut down or continues to operate only
outside the classroom. Curiosity is deadened and school
becomes a race for achievement or a meaningless exercise
in frustration, not a place to learn and grow. "
Alternatives in Education
Multiple Intelligences
The pioneering
work of Howard Gardner, Ph.D., Harvard University Graduate
School of Education, serves as the framework for much of The
Gardner School curriculum. Gardner's philosophy of Multiple
Intelligences asserts that every student's blend of
competencies produces a unique cognitive profile for that
child.
Learning Differences--NOT Disabilities
Dr. Thomas
Armstrong
Potentially Negative
Characteristics of Creative Individuals
Born to Explore! The Other
Side of ADD
Modern Grade-School Pressures:
Too Much Homework, Too Little Freeplay
Born to Explore! The Other
Side of ADD
Freedom, Boredom and Motivation
Stephanie
Sarantos
Don't You See I Don't Have Time
for This?
Nora Wheat
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Utdrag ur:
Learning Process Reversed
Engines for Education
"What is
curious about the way science labs like dissecting a
frog in biology class are usually conducted in the
schools is that they try to reverse the natural learning
process. The answers are provided before the student has
asked the questions. At every level of school, students
face this reversed process. They learn to write before
they have the genuine desire to communicate in writing.
They learn to read before they want to find out the
information contained in books. They learn history
before they try to analyze current political decisions.
They learn economics before they ever try to run a
business."
Utdrag ur:
"Learning Disability": A Rose by
Another Name
Jan Hunt,
M.Sc. -
The Natural Child Project
"Imagine
for a moment that you are visiting a plant nursery. You
hear a commotion outside, so you investigate. You find a
young assistant struggling with a rose bush. He is
trying to force open the petals of a rose, and muttering
in frustration. You ask him what he is doing, and he
explains, "My boss wants all these roses to bloom this
week, so last week I taped all the early ones, and now
I'm opening the late ones." You protest that every rose
has it's own schedule of blooming; it is absurd to try
to slow down or speed this up; it doesn't matter when
roses bloom; a rose will always bloom at its own best
time. You look at the rose again, and see that it is
wilting. But when you point this out, he replies, "Oh,
too bad, it has genetic dysbloomia. I'll have to call an
expert." "No, no!" you say, "you caused the wilting! All
you needed to do was meet the flowers' needs for water
and sunshine, and leave the rest to nature!" You can't
believe this is happening. Why is his boss so
unrealistic and uninformed about roses?
Such a
scene would never take place in a nursery, of course,
but it happens daily in our schools. Teachers, pressured
by their bosses, follow official timetables, which
demand that all children learn at the same rate, and in
the same way. Yet children are no different than roses
in their development: they are born with the capacity
and desire to learn, they learn at different rates, and
they learn in different ways. If we can meet their needs,
provide a safe, nurturing environment, and keep from
interfering with our doubts, anxieties, and arbitrary
timetables, then- like roses- they will all bloom at
their own best time."
Här finns många artiklar om
hur barn lär sig saker
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Although children do not respond well to
sitting in one place for a long time, we
nevertheless make this a fixture of most
schooling.
Källa:
Engines for
Education |
10 MISSTAG I SKOLUNDERVISNINGEN
Roger
Schank
1:
SCHOOLS ACT AS IF LEARNING CAN BE
DISASSOCIATED FROM DOING.
There
really is no learning without doing. There
is the appearance of learning without doing
when we ask children to memorize stuff. But
adults know that they learn best on the job,
from experience, by trying things out.
Children learn best that way, too. If there
is nothing to actually do in a subject area
we want to teach children it may be the case
that there really isn't anything that
children ought to learn in that subject
area.
2:
SCHOOLS BELIEVE THEY HAVE THE JOB OF
ASSESSMENT AS PART OF THEIR NATURAL ROLE.
Assessment is not the job
of the schools. Products ought to be
assessed by the buyer of those products, not
the producer of those products. Let the
schools do the best job they can and then
let the buyer beware. Schools must
concentrate on learning and teaching, not
testing and comparing.
3:
SCHOOLS BELIEVE THEY HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO
CREATE STANDARD CURRICULA.
Why
should everyone know the same stuff? What a
dull world it would be if everyone knew only
the same material. Let children choose where
they want to go, and with proper guidance
they will choose well and create an alive
and diverse society.
4:
TEACHERS BELIEVE THEY OUGHT TO TELL STUDENTS
WHAT THEY THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW.
There isn't all that much that it is
important to know. There is a lot that it is
important to know how to do, however.
Teachers should help students figure out how
to do stuff the students actually want to
do.
5:
SCHOOLS BELIEVE INSTRUCTION CAN BE
INDEPENDENT OF MOTIVATION FOR ACTUAL USE.
We really
have to get over the idea that some stuff is
just worth knowing even if you never do
anything with it. Human memories happily
erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try
to fill up children's heads with such stuff?
Concentrate on figuring out why someone
would ever want to know something before you
teach it, and teach the reason, in a way
that can be believed, at the same time.
6:
SCHOOLS BELIEVE STUDYING IS AN IMPORTANT
PART OF LEARNING.
Practice
is an important part of learning, not
studying. Studying is a complete waste of
time. No one ever remembers the stuff they
cram into their heads the night before the
exam, so why do it? Practice, on the other
hand, makes perfect. But, you have to be
practicing a skill that you actually want to
know how to perform.
7:
SCHOOLS BELIEVE THAT GRADING ACCORDING TO
AGE GROUP IS AN INTRINSIC PART OF THE
ORGANIZATION OF A SCHOOL.
This is
just a historical accident and it's a
terrible idea. Age-grouped grades are one of
the principal sources of terror for children
in school, because they are always feeling
they are not as good as someone else or
better than someone else, and so on. Such
comparisons and other social problems caused
by age-similar grades cause many a child to
have terrible confidence problems. Allowing
students to help those who are younger, on
the other hand, works well for both parties.
8:
SCHOOLS BELIEVE CHILDREN WILL ACCOMPLISH
THINGS ONLY BY HAVING GRADES TO STRIVE FOR.
Grades
serve as motivation for some children, but
not for all. Some children get very
frustrated by the arbitrary use of power
represented by grades and simply give up.
9:
SCHOOLS BELIEVE DISCIPLINE IS AN INHERENT
PART OF LEARNING.
Old people
especially believe this, probably because
schools were seriously rigid and uptight in
their day. The threat of a ruler across the
head makes children anxious and quiet. It
does not make them learn. It makes them
afraid to fail, which is a different thing
altogether.
10:
SCHOOLS BELIEVE STUDENTS HAVE A BASIC
INTEREST IN LEARNING WHATEVER IT IS SCHOOLS
DECIDE TO TEACH THEM.
Källa:
Socratic Arts |
LÄNKAR
OM ALTERNATIV
UNDERVISNING
BÖCKER
OM ALTERNATIV
UNDERVISNING
8 SÄTT ATT VARA SMART PÅ
enligt
Howard
Gardner, Ph.D
Det känns
viktigt att belysa dessa olika områden för att ytterligare
poängtera att alla är olika.
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Intelligens område: |
Är stark inom: |
Tycker om: |
Lär sig bäst genom: |
Kända Exempel: |
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Verbal-Linguistic
(Word Smart) |
reading, writing, telling stories,
memorizing dates, thinking words |
read, write, tell stories, talk, memorize,
work at puzzles |
reading, hearing and
seeing words, speaking, writing, discussing
and debating |
T.S. Eliot, Maya Angelou, Virginia Woolf,
Abraham Lincoln |
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Math-Logic
(Number Smart) |
math, reasoning, logic, problem-solving,
patterns |
solve problems, question, work with numbers,
experiment |
working with patterns and relationships,
classifying, categorizing, working with the
abstract |
Albert Einstein, John Dewey, Susanne Langer |
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Spatial
(Picture Smart) |
reading, maps, charts, drawing, mazes,
puzzles, making images, visualization |
design, draw, build, create, daydream, look
at pictures |
working with pictures and colors,
visualizing, using the minds eye, drawing |
Pablo Picasso, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georgia
OKeeffe, Bobby Fischer |
|
Bodily-Kinesthetic
(Body Smart) |
athletics, dancing, acting, crafts, using
tools |
move around, touch and talk, use body
language |
touching, moving, processing knowledge
through bodily sensations |
Charlie Chaplin, Martina Navratilova, Magic
Johnson |
|
Musical
(Music Smart) |
singing, picking up sounds, remembering
melodies, rhythms |
sing, hum, play an instrument, listen to
music |
rhythm, melody, singing, listening to music
and melodies |
Leonard Bernstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Ella Fitzgerald |
|
Interpersonal
(People Smart) |
understanding people, leading, organizing,
communicating, resolving conflicts, selling |
have friends, talk to people, join groups |
sharing, comparing, relating, interviewing,
cooperating |
Mahandas Gandhi, Ronald Reagan, Mother
Theresa |
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Intrapersonal
(Self Smart) |
understanding self, recognizing strengths
and weaknesses, setting goals |
work alone, reflect, pursue interests |
working alone, doing self-paced projects,
having space, reflecting |
Eleanor Roosevelt, Sigmund Freud, Thomas
Merton |
|
Naturalist
(Nature Smart) |
understanding nature, making distinctions,
identifying flora and fauna |
be involved with nature, make distinctions |
working in nature, exploring living things,
learning about plants and natural events |
John Muir, Charles Darwin, Luther Burbank |
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kan du läsa mer om
vaccin och
på sidan Miljö kan du
läsa mer om
amalgam.
Jag är
kvicksilverförgiftad av mina amalgamfyllningar och jag lever i
strålningssmogg. Jag undrar vilken diagnos jag skulle få om jag inte
visste att jag är förgiftad?
Här är mina symptom:
Ständig trötthet (fullkomligt slutkörd och tung som bly)
– det spelar ingen roll hur mycket jag än sover
Ständig värk
Domnande händer och fötter/ben
Ljuskänslig
Plötsliga yrselanfall – benen viker sig
Ljudkänslig – kan höra pipet från tv:n när man stängt
den med fjärrkontrollen
Oerhört irriterad för ingenting
Oerhörda svårigheter att finna ord
Domningar i huvudet
Myror framför ögonen
Overklighetskänsla - ofta
Plötslig handledssvaghet – som ett spjut som borrar sig
igenom handleden
Plötsliga hugg varsomhelst i kroppen – på lillfingret,
mitt på låret, mitt på smalbenet etc
Öronsusningar – det susar som om en kran rinner för
fullt inne i huvudet
Periodvis: stel- nackspärrskänsla. Värk ut i armarna
Om någon petar på mig på vissa ställen t ex en bit in på
ryggen vid höften, gör det väldigt ont och smärtan
sitter i en ganska lång stund efter
Har ont i fötterna – måste stå på fötternas utsidor
Minns nästan inget – det gäller både närminnet och
långtidsminnet
Kan inte återberätta något
Mycket okoncentrerad
Tappar ofta tråden i
tanken och i samtal
Skakningar i händerna
Frusenhet – alltid (som när man är sjuk)
Förvirrad - kan påbörja en sak för att nästan direkt
påbörja en annan sak och sedan helt plötsligt glömma
bort vad det var jag gjorde.
Värk och ”rusningar” i hjärttrakten
Dimsyn i mellanåt
Något höga sköldkörtelvärden (det räknas dock som
normalt inom skolmedicinen) (Uppmätt för ett par år
sedan på vårdcentralen)
Nervös för vad som betraktas för ingenting
Depressiv - i perioder
Har
ångest
Sen lägger vi till
ytterligare "symptom" som ligger utanför normen:
Slarvig (ur en konventionell synvinkel) - jag föredrar att inte lägga
tillbaka saker när jag vet att jag ska använda dem snart igen.
Tröttnar snabbt om saker inte ligger inom mitt intresseområde -
likaledes blir uppslukad av något som jag är intresserad av
Impulsiv
Tycker
att "normala" människor förstår långsamt och att de inte "kan tänka
själv"
Går
omkring som i en annan värld - dagdrömmare
Ouppmärksam
Blir
oerhört trött av att vistas ibland många människor
Mår
bäst om jag får lov att vara för mig själv
Känner
mig alltid stressad - tycker att allt går för fort i vårt samhälle -
hänger inte riktigt med i den hastigheten.
Skjuter ifrån mig sådant som jag uppfattar som tråkigt.
etc...
Ska
jag också ha en bokstavsdiagnos? Eller får jag lov att bara vara en
människa, en individ på denna planeten, i vårt samhälle? Det kanske rent
av är så att "normala" människor har någon form av störning, då de inte
"hänger med i svängarna"?
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Mercury Poisoning and ADHD
Generation Rescue - a parent-founded,
parent-funded, and parent-led organization
effects of toxic metals on
neurotransmitters
Robert A. Goyer
|
Brain
chemistry is not a cause, it is an effect.” |
LÖGNEN OM BOKSTAVSDIAGNOSER
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Broken Brains or Flawed Studies?
A Critical Review of ADHD Neuroimaging Research (pdf)
Jonathan Leo
Western University of Health Sciences
David Cohen Florida International University
THE
GREAT A.D.D. HOAX
David Keirsey
Udrag ur:
Multiple Intelligences
Dr. Gardner says that our
schools and culture focus most of their attention on linguistic and
logical-mathematical intelligence. We esteem the highly articulate or
logical people of our culture. However, Dr. Gardner says that we should
also place equal attention on individuals who show gifts in the other
intelligences: the artists, architects, musicians, naturalists,
designers, dancers, therapists, entrepreneurs, and others who enrich the
world in which we live. Unfortunately, many children who have these
gifts don’t receive much reinforcement for them in school. Many of these
kids, in fact, end up being labeled "learning disabled," "ADD (attention
deficit disorder," or simply underachievers, when their unique ways of
thinking and learning aren’t addressed by a heavily linguistic or
logical-mathematical classroom.
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Attention
is a form of consciousness... and not something that can be
observed. |
The Coincidence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and
Creativity
Bonnie Cramond, Ph.D., The
University of Georgia
Utdrag ur:
Why I Believe that Attention Deficit Disorder is a
Myth
Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D.
"As the textbooks themselves
declare, "there is no blood test (or other objective test) to tell when a
child has ADD." If this is so, then how do we really know for sure if he or
she has it? I've seen studies showing that the symptoms of ADD disappear or
lessen under several real life situations: when the child is doing things
that interest him, when he's engaged in one-to-one interaction with someone
he trusts, when he's being paid to do something, and when he can control the
outcomes of his activities. If ADD can disappear under these conditions,
then how can ADD really exist as a medical disorder?"
"I'm very concerned that the
literature on ADD has so much to say about what these kids can't do, and
virtually nothing about what they can do. In my own informal research, I've
seen countless examples of kids labeled ADD who are musicians, dancers,
athletes, leaders, and creative in many other ways. Why don't we see these
kids as basically healthy and
creative individuals who may not function
as well in certain kinds of environments (for example, the worksheet
wasteland of many classrooms), but do great when given a chance to learn in
their own way. Many kids labeled ADD in fact do great when they're fixing an
automobile, or doing experiments in their nature lab, or performing in a
theater piece. Many kids with behavior difficulties grow up to become great
individuals. People like Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Sara Bernhardt,
Louis Armstrong, and Albert Einstein.
Utdrag ur
"Overexcitabilities" Used to Predict Giftedness
"Over the past few decades researchers have been trying to map out the
correlation between "overexcitabilities" and giftedness. It all
started in the sixties when Dabrowski proposed his Theory of Positive
Disintegration, which stated that people born with overexcitabilities had a
higher level of "development potential" than others. After
decades of research, it appears that overexcitabilities can actually be used
to predict which kids might be gifted. Of course, the very
same overexcitabilities are being used by others as evidence of a brain
defect." Läs mer om Dabrowski´s teori
här.
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Why don't we start
using models of growth to describe our highly energetic kids and
throw this ADD disease label in the trash basket where it
belongs?"
Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. |
Här är små utdrag ur
Striden om bokstavsbarnen
"För
att kunna avgöra om ett barn är utvecklingsstört används ett
intelligenstest. För att betraktas som utvecklingsstört ska barnet ha ett
testvärde på IQ 70 eller lägre. Problemet är att ett barn som får IQ 70 ändå
inte behöver vara utvecklingsstört. Barnet kanske inte var motiverat i
testsituationen, hade kanske sovit dåligt natten innan eller var deprimerat.
En elev som mår dåligt av sociala eller kulturella skäl kan alltså hamna på
ett lågt testvärde, som inte behöver betyda en utvecklingsstörning."
"Hela diagnostiken
präglas av ett stort godtycke när det gäller var man drar gränsen mellan
normalt och onormalt beteende. Och det är oacceptabelt ur
rättssäkerhetssynpunkt."
"Alltfler barn och vuxna som får diagnosen medicineras med amfetamin.
Amfetamin är på kort sikt lugnande och ger en ökad koncentrationsförmåga.
Det gäller alla, med eller utan diagnosen ADHD/DAMP. Men de okända
effekterna av långvarig medicinering med amfetamin har blivit ytterligare en
konfliktyta inom området."
"Om vi tar svår dyslexi så tror jag att de flesta i vårt land är överens om
att det i dag faktiskt är ett handikapp. Men om vi går tillbaka några hundra
år så var det inte ett handikapp, eftersom man då inte förväntades kunna
läsa och skriva. Och det perspektivet, alltså det relativa
handikappbegreppet, innebär att handikappets följder inte avgörs förrän i
samspelet med omgivningen. Där är ju skolan jätteviktig."
"Under senare år har kraven i skolan ökat, till exempel när det gäller att
eleverna ska ta ansvar för sitt lärande. Och det gör ju att ADHD/DAMP är ett
större handikapp i dag än vad det var för bara tjugo-tjugofem år sedan. Det
är ett mycket viktigt perspektiv. Jag kan till och med tänka mig att gå med
på att en del av de barn som i dag faktiskt behöver en diagnos, kanske inte
behövde den tidigare."
MYTEN OM ADHD & DAMP
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Innan du låter
undersöka om ditt barn har en kemisk obalans i hjärnan,
överväg om möjligt en obalans i livet.
Är
förväntningarna på ditt barns uppförande och
prestationsförmåga för höga? Är ditt barn moget för den
sorts
undervisning som bedrivs i skolan? Kan undervisningen
bedrivas på annat sätt? Kan du uppföra dig annorlunda
gentemot ditt barn? Ser du ditt barn? Vad äter ditt barn?
Kan ditt barn ha varit utsatt för kvicksilver när du var
gravid? Utsätts ditt barn för någon form av strålning?
Det är ditt
ansvar - ingen annans! Våga stå upp för ditt barn och hela
dess personlighet! |
Misdiagnosis of the Gifted
Lynne Azpeitia, M.A. and Mary Rocamora, M.A.
Gifted individuals face many challenges.
One of them may be in getting correctly identified
by psychotherapists and others as gifted.
Utdrag ur
Misdiagnosis of the Gifted
"Therapeutic assessment of gifted persons with asynchronous development,
heightened levels of awareness, energy and emotional response, and an
intense level of inner turmoil often results in their developmental
transition being mislabeled as a personality or attentional disorder.
Histrionic, dysthymic, cyclothymic, borderline, narcissistic, ADHD
(Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) or ADD (Attention Deficit
Disorder) are a few of the diagnostic labels mistakenly used to describe
normative stages of positive disintegration. "
Ett utdrag ur en intervju med
Stephanie S. Tolan
Tolan writes novels for children and young adults, is co-author of the book
"Guiding the Gifted Child", writes about giftedness for Advanced Development
Journal and Roeper Review, and is a consultant on highly gifted children.
"The larger world does not
connect ADD with giftedness at all," Tolan notes. "Occasionally they mention
creativity. And ADD is now the current 'in' thing to be as an adult, as
well. It was only little boys, then it got to be little girls, then grownups
as well. Very many creative people go around now announcing they are ADD. I
could announce that I am, too. But I happen to know that I'm not; I'm just
highly creative, and it does have a nasty tendency to make the little
details of ordinary life a little more difficult.
"I used to say my son functioned like a short circuit because he was
sparking all the time. It's web thinking, it's connected thinking. You take
two steps down a path and you see a junction, and you may end up very far
from where you intended. And it may be a wonderful place to be, but it isn't
what you intended, and if you're in an environment like a school that says
you must attend to these things, in this order, then a highly creative, a
highly gifted person is going to have difficulty with that.
"And it's so much more complex than that. Dabrowski points out that
psychomotor overexcitability is one of the pieces of giftedness, so they
have this incredible energy, and they're bored out of their minds in school,
and they're expected to follow straight lines from 'A' to 'B' to 'C', none
of which they can handle, so it looks like pathology, and they get drugged.
"It may be true that some
adults really have ADD, but I find it so unlikely. If you look at the list
of characteristics of ADD, and the characteristics of gifted, they are
virtually the same."
Understanding ADHD and the Creative Child |
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Some day in the
not so distant future the school may come to realize that not
all children can be scheduled and routinized, that children,
like adults, are fundamentally different in this regard. Perhaps
then the school might adapt itself to those children that do not
fit its curriculum or its methods of instruction. |
ADD
UR EN ANNAN SYNVINKEL
Utdrag
ur en "Are you ADD" lista,
från boken "Driven
to Distraction"
av Hallowell & Ratey.
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Are you more creative or imaginative than most people?
Are you particularly intuitive?
Even if you are easily distracted, do you find that there are times
when your power of concentration is laser-beam intense?
Are you usually eager to try something new?
Do you laugh a lot?
Do you get the gist of things very quickly?
Are you much more effective when you are your own boss?
Are you a maverick?
Do you tend to approach problems intuitively?
Do you often get excited by projects and then not follow through?
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Temperament Quotes
Part I - Most Common ADD Types on the Internet
ENTP, ENFP, INFP,
INTP
Celebrate! ADHD
- här kan man få tips och idéer.
Evolving Into the A.D.D Gift
Kevin Ross
Emery, D.D.
Positive
Quotes about ADD
Born
to Explore
S
U R V I V I N G A D Y S F U N C T I O
N A L F A M I L Y
Bill
Dueease
BREV
FRÅN ETT BARN
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From the Heart
of a Child...
Dear Mom and Dad,
I want you to know what it's like to
be me.
My brain runs like a washing machine
powered by a Ferrari engine. It runs
all the time and it runs fast,
churning and tumbling ideas like
shirts and pants and socks mixed
together.
I can be talking to you and having
another conversation running inside
my head. I can be in class listening
to the teacher, but be fully engaged
in a daydream inventing something
with my LEGOS.
You know how I sometimes repeat
questions? It's not that I didn't
hear your answer. It's just that in
the second between the time I asked
and you responded, I went somewhere
interesting in my mind. And I didn't
pay attention to what you said.
Sometimes I have so many thoughts
swimming inside my head that I just
blurt things out because I’m afraid
I will forget them.
I know you say I'm really bright,
but it's hard not to feel stupid
when the teacher is always getting
on me. I want to do well in school.
But when the teacher drones on and
doesn’t engage my imagination,
either my mind shuts down to sleep
mode or I tune her out and go to
better places that keep me
stimulated. It’s nothing personal.
I kind of like all this energy
inside my head because I can keep
myself engaged and entertained in
there by myself. But other times I
feel scattered.
That's why I like routine in other
parts of life. It’s why I end up
wearing or eating the same things.
It’s why I sometimes freak out when
plans change or things aren’t just
so. Little things throw me off.
You think I’m sad because I don’t
have lots of friends. But that’s by
choice, because I’m pretty content
inside.
I like who I am, but it’s tough when
no one else seems to. Why does
everyone want to change who I am?
You give me medication to make me a
different person, a person I don’t
care to be. I’m not unhappy with
myself—I’m uneasy because since I
can remember, everyone around me has
been so negative and tried to fix
what they think is wrong with me.
I know that I’m different than other
kids. And sometimes that confuses me
and makes me feel lonely. But I
don’t want to be like them. I just
want to be appreciated and liked
exactly they way I am.
You want me to talk more, but you
just psychoanalyze me. Besides, it’s
difficult to express my thoughts and
feelings verbally—they just get
jumbled up. I’d rather express them
in my drawings and inventions. I
feel things deeply. I hurt with the
kids who get left out, and one day
I’m going to help those kids. I know
how it feels.
I know you get concerned because I
stay up late at night and don’t
sleep much. But I like it when it’s
quiet. I can hear my thoughts better.
And my world is peaceful then.
Mom and Dad, don't worry about me. I
may not do great in school or be the
most popular kid, but I'm content
inside. I like the way my brain
works, I like my energy. If everyone
would stop trying to fix me, I'd be
okay.
Let me focus on the things I love
doing. Drawing. Building. Inventing.
Stop trying to make me be like
everyone else. Just work with me,
okay, not against me. I like who I
am. Why can’t you? |
Källa:
Celebrate! ADHD
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BÖCKER
OM
ALTERNATIVA SYNSÄTT AV BOKSTAVSDIAGNOSER
ARTIKLAR
OM BOKSTAVSDIAGNOSER
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The problem is
curriculum content and instructional method, not brain
defect. |
LÄNKAR
OM
ALTERNATIVA SYNSÄTT VAD GÄLLER BOKSTAVSDIAGNOSER
LÄNKAR
OM
ALTERNATIVA BEHANDLINGSMETODER
BÖCKER
OM
ALTERNATIVA BEHANDLINGSMETODER
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ADHD: A Path to Success: A
Revolutionary Theory and New Innovation in Drug-Free Therapy
Lawrence Weathers
Amazon.com |
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ADHD
Alternatives: A Natural Approach to Treating Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder
Aviva Jill Romm, Tracy Romm, Christopher Hobbs
Amazon.com |
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The Myth of the A.D.D Child:50 Ways to
Improve Your Child's Behavior and Attention Span Without Drugs,
Labels, or Coercion
Thomas Armstrong
Amazon.com |
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No
More Ritalin: Treating Adhd Without Drugs
Mary, Dr Block, Mary Ann Block
Amazon.com |
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Healing
ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the
6 Types of ADD
Daniel G. Amen
Amazon.com |
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ADD-Friendly
Ways to Organize Your Life
Judith
Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau
Amazon.com |
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Add
Success Stories: A Guide to Fulfillment for Families With
Attention Deficit Disorder: Maps, Guidebooks, and Travelogues for
Hunters in the Farm
Thom Hartmann, John J. Ratey
Amazon.com |
Running
on Ritalin : A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance
In A Pill
Lawrence
H. Diller
Amazon.com |
ARTIKLAR
OM
ALTERNATIVA BEHANDLINGSMETODER
Thom Hartmann's "Hunter and Farmer" synsätt av ADD/ADHD
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Karaktärsdrag betraktad ur medicinsk synvinkel |
Käraktärsdrag betraktad ur jägarsynvinkel |
Käraktärsdrag betraktad ur bondesynvinkel |
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Attention spans short, but
can become intensely focused for
the long periods of time |
Constantly monitoring their
environment |
Not easily distracted from the task at hand |
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Poor planner: disorganized
and
impulsive (makes snap decisions) |
Able to throw themselves into
the chase on a moment's notice |
Able to sustain a steady,
dependable effort |
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Distorted sense of time: unaware of how long it will
take to do something |
Flexible; ready to change strategy quickly |
Organized, purposeful. They have a long term strategy
and they stick to it |
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Impatient |
Tireless: capable of sustained drives, but only when
"Hot on the trail" of some goal |
Conscious of time and timing. They get things done
in time, pace themselves, have good "staying power |
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Doesn't convert words into concepts adeptly, and
vice versa. May or may not have a reading disability |
Visual/Concrete thinker, clearly seeing a tangible
goal even if there are no words for it |
Patient. Aware that good thing take time willing to
wait |
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Has difficulty following directions |
Independent |
Team player |
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Daydreamer |
Bored by mundane tasks; enjoy new ideas, excitement,
"the hunt" being hot on the trial |
Focused. Good at follow-through, tending to details,
"taking care of business" |
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Acts without considering
consequences |
Willing and able to take risk and face danger |
Careful. "looking before you leap" |
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Lacking in the social graces |
"No time for niceties when there are decisions to be
made!" |
Nurturing; creates and supports community values;
attuned to whether something will last |
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www.thomhartmann.com |
DROGADE
BARN
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Hur
påverkas hjärnan av amfetamin. Vissa säger att det är "kicken"
som gör att man blir beroende. Och eftersom det är en så pass låg dos
man ger barnen så finns det ingen som helst risk för barnen att bli
beroende. Somliga andra hävdar att barnen visst kan bli beroende. Det vore
ju väldigt konstigt om barnen inte tog skada av alla dessa mediciner.
Istället för att ta reda på orsaken till ett barns beteende så tar vi bort
symptomen och struntar i biverkningarna. Här kan
ni läsa om hur dessa droger påverkar barnen.
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