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Career Profile: How a Mid-Life Diagnosis Helped Me Become an Entrepreneur
Above is a great article about Founder/Director Candace Sahm and how she became an ADHD Coach and how coaching is beneficial!

Here are some articles you can read online:

Candace, Director of PLE will be attending the CHADD Conference this year in Orlando in November!

Check out the CHADD Website for more information!

Mark Your Calendars! Thursday October 20th at 7pm EST Candace will be hosting a presentation on the Life Benefits of ADHD Coaching. RSVP today at positive.ple@gmail.com to reserve your spot! If you cannot make the presentation in person, we’ll be Skyping LIVE! Contact Candace for more details!
Some websites to check out:

   Dr. Jay Giedd Dr. Jay Giedd, neuroscientist at the National Institute of Mental Health
   Chris Dendy Co-Author of Teaching Teenagers with ADD and AD/HD
   Dr. Sam Goldstein Co-Author, Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism
   Anne Teeter Ellison, Ed.D Co-Author of Child Neuropsychology: Assessment and Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
   Dr. Anita Gadhia-Smith Author of “From Addiction to Recovery: A Therapist’s Personal Journey”
John Ratey, MD – Author of Spark.
CHADD.org – Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
ADDandADHD.co.uk – Comprehensive advice on ADD and ADHD
Calling on Beth – Life Coaching • Comprehensive Home Support • Consults Schools, Parents • Advocate at meetings to ensure ADA accommodation
Assessments and Solutions offers comprehensive cognitive and behavioral assessments in Bethesda, MD and Fairfax, VA to help identify the keys to academic, professional, and social success.
The Parents’ Place of Maryland – Education, information, technical assistance, and supportive activities for serve the parents of children with disabilities throughout Maryland.
Audio Visual Educational Network, Inc. – CDs and tapes from the 17th Annual International Conference on AD/HD, October 26 – 29, 2005
NIMH   National Institute of Mental Health
NIH’s   National Institute of Mental Health – ADHD information
Chesapeake ADHD Center of Maryland is a private clinic in Silver Spring, MD, that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD (ADD), learning disorders, and related conditions.
TourettesSyndrome.net
Quia.com – a popular educational technology Web site
readingquest.org – primarily for social studies teachers
Virgina Tech’s Study Skills Self-help
Montgomery County Public Libraries
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Hallowell Center
Dr. Amen – a child and adult psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, bestselling author, and the medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc.

Please take some time and browse some of these links to sites of interest.

Attention Deficit Disorder/ ADD / ADHD
http://www.chadd.org/
http://www.oneaddplace.com/addhome.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/attention.html
General Interest Regarding Learning
http://www.allkindsofminds.com/
Famous People with Learning Differences
http://www.nald.ca/ldanl/famous.htm
http://www.labschool.org/achievers.html
Gifted
http://www.gtworld.org/
Gifted/Learning Disabled – Twice Exceptional Students
http://www.gtldnetwork.org/
http://www.uniquelygifted.org/challenge.htm
Learning Disabilities – General Information
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/dis.learning.html
http://www.ldonline.org/
http://www.ldamc.org/
http://www.schwablearning.org/index.asp
http://www.cyberwink.com/ld/default.html
http://www.ldresources.com/articles/index.html
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=CHILDPOLL-12-16-03
Learning Styles
http://www.middleschool.net/LearningStratagies/learning.htm
Mathematics
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/math.html
Motivation
http://www.ldonline.org/articles/5730
Output Disorders/Written Expression
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2868-2003Dec15.html
http://www.allkindsofminds.org/articleDisplay.aspx?articleID=2&categoryID=3
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/writingbasics.html
Dysgraphia
http://www.margaretkay.com/Dysgraphia.htm
Reading/Dyslexia
http://www.interdys.org/index.jsp
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/7636157.htm
http://www.ldanatl.org/positions/reading.html
http://www.dyslexiacenter.org/main.shtml
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/reading.html


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