Survival Guide for College Students with ADD or LD

By Kathleen G. Nadeau

Book Overview

This useful guide for high school or college students diagnosed with attention deficit disorder or learning disabilities will provide the information they need to survive and thrive in the college setting. The Survival Guide is filled with practical suggestions and tips from an experienced specialist in the field and from college students who also suffer from these difficulties. This book will help ADD and LD students to: choose the right college assess the services a college offers arrange for extended-time exams schedule classes advantageously select an appropriate major work with a career counselor initiate and maintain helpful relationships with professors Many valuable suggestions on how students can help themselves are also included in the Survival Guide . These include ways to study, how to manage time, overcoming procrastination, organizing oneself, resisting temptation, minimizing distractions, reducing frustrations, building a support network, learning self-advocacy, scheduling extracurricular activities, and choosing part-time employment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591473888
• ISBN13: 9781591473886
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Magination Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Survival Guide

I loved this book. Large print, small sections of reading, and great ideas. It's already been a lifesaver!

An outstanding compendium of explanation and advice

This fully updated second edition of Survival Guide For College Students With ADHD Or LD is an outstanding compendium of explanation and advice gathered from the expertise, experience, and original studies of Kathleen G. Nadeau (Clinical Psychologist and nationally known specialist on attentional learning disabilities). Introducing readers to an intelligent and informed presentation of the difficulties involved in the process of post-secondary schooling for troubled students, Survival Guide For College Students With ADHD Or LD nicely educates its readers on just how to find the most suitable college, how to build a productive and positive relationship with professors, mastering the total utilization of the support and services and accommodations provided, how to select and schedule the desired courses, choosing a major and prospective career, and how to manage time properly in order to get everything done and still have personal time. Survival Guide For College Students With ADHD Or LD is very strongly recommended as essential for all aspiring college students with ADHD or any other form of learning disabilities for its precision and detail concerning the college classroom experience and how to make the most of it.

I absolutely love this book

I absolutely love this book and highly recommended especially if you are newly diagnosed or new to post-secondary education. The book is actually more of a quick reference guide, the type you can carry around with you, and use on an as need basis. I myself keep it handy, and whenever a question, problem, or concern comes up related to ADHD and school I just pick it up and flip to the relevant section. This book is not intended to be an exhaustive analysis of the ADHD post-secondary situation, but more of a pithy and portable help manual. I definitely recommend purchasing this book, even if it means giving up and evening of beer and pizza in order to afford the book, as it's well worth it.