Come and share your concerns, frustrations and issues in raising a child with AD/HD. Get the encouragement, support, ideas, or solutions you need to address your day to day challenges.

When: Second Wednesday of each month (We take July and August off)

Program begins September 8

Details:

7:30-8:30 pm

Wegman’s Store
122 Shawan Rd.
Hunt Valley, MD 21030

Upper level dining room, at a table against the wall in the main dinging room.

We try to have CHADD literature spread out on the table so people can figure out who we are.  Call if you can’t find them: (443) 465-3783

This new support group does not replace other parent support groups already in place.

QUESTIONS: Email to ipalanki@yahoo.com

For driving directions and other calendar listings: www.chadd-mc.org/calendar

Date: December 1, 2010

Chaos, Clarity, and Navigation: Making the IEP Process Work

Speaker: Sally Fite Stanfield, Esq.

Details:

7:15 – 8:45 pm
Loyola College Graduate Center
2034 Greenspring Drive
Timonium, Maryland 21093

About the program:

Managing the stresses and challenges of your child’s school experience is complex at best and a terrible struggle at worst. Effective navigation intensifies when your child has a disability.

The following may sound familiar: You and/or your child’s teachers note difficulties or learning delays, you begin to ask what should we do and when should we do it. Your questions continue and perhaps multiply.

• Does my child have a disability?
• Does the disability have a name?
• What is the impact on my child’s ability to learn?

More questions emerge:

• Does my child need special education services?
• How do I secure those services?
• What do I do if the school disagrees with me about what my child needs?

These questions and many more frame the discussion of how to navigate and use the IEP process to ensure that your child receives appropriate instruction, services, and support.

Stated differently: The focus of the IEP process is to determine what kind of instruction and classroom modifications and accommodations are needed to ensure that your son or daughter is “available to learn” and is prepared for life after high school. Federal and state laws and regulations define the process.

Your challenge: how to use the law for your child’s educational benefit and how to foster a productive working relationship with the school system. Ms. Stanfield’s presentation provides information and answers questions about ways in which parents can meet that challenge.

About the speaker:

Sally Stanfield grew up on a still-working family farm in Baltimore County, attended McDaniel College for her undergraduate degree, and earned her J.D. from Washington & Lee University School of Law. Prior to joining the law firm of Callegary & Steedman in March, 2004, Sally practiced as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney and private practitioner in Washington state and then taught in a Title I physical education program for pre-kindergarten students in Baltimore County Public Schools and coached high school girls’ lacrosse and officiated high school field hockey.

Sally currently represents children with disabilities who need special education supports and services as well as students with IEPs who violate school discipline policies. Beyond her practice, Sally works very closely w ith the Alumni Association at McDaniel College and with several volunteer organizations that serve the autism community. She stil misses her Arabian show horses.

For driving directions and other calendar listings: www.chadd-mc.org/calendar

Date: November 3, 2010

Speaker: Maureen Martindale, M.A.

Details:

7:15 – 8:45 pm
Loyola College Graduate Center
2034 Greenspring Drive
Timonium, Maryland 21093

Reading, Writing, Attention, and Executive Function

We now know that 25-40% of individuals with a reading disorder also have an attention and/or executive function disorder.

The more we learn about the brain, the clearer it becomes that in many individuals it may be necessary to treat both language (reading and writing) and attention issues. But how do we do that?

This presentation examines the teaching methods that have shown measurable success over time with students who have reading, writing, attention and executive function issues. It also examines how methods and accommodations change in elementary, middle, and high school, and emphases the issues associated with girls and attention disorders.

About the speaker: Maureen Martindale holds a masters’ degree in Writing from the University of Baltimore. She was full-time English faculty at Baltimore City Community College and a tutor in the remedial reading and writing labs there from 1987-1990. She has also worked as a counselor with at-risk families and youth. She is a member of CHADD, the International Dyslexia Association and the Maryland Writers’ Association. Her articles have appeared in The Maryland Psychologist and The National Student Assistance Journal. Since 1994 she has maintained a full-time private practice, specializing in students aged 6 to 18 who have both language and attention issues.

For driving directions and other calendar listings: www.chadd-mc.org/calendar

Download the flier for this event here.

These free and informal sessions led by an ADHD coach are an opportunity for adults to discuss with other adults a wide array of issues of concern—from time management to organizational strategies to family matters and work problems.

When:

Third Wednesday of each month. 7-9 pm

And YES.. we’re meeting on September 15, 2010!  We look forward to seeing you.

Where:

We meet downstairs at

St Christopher’s Episcopal Church
116 Marydel Rd
Linthicum Hts, MD

We recommend you park on the side of the church and enter through the chain link fence at the back. We are the third door on the back of the building. (Most likely just past charcoal grills.) If you don’t see anyone when you look in that door.. peek in some other ones back there.

Directions to the church:

From Catonsville, Pikesville & Towson: Take I-695 Outer Loop to Exit 6B (Campe Meade Rd., South). Turn right at the first stop light onto Maple Rd., go one short block and turn right onto Sweetser Rd. Go one more block and turn right into the church parking lot.

For more information, contact: Kerch McConlogue at  (410) 929-3274

Date: October 6, 2010

Behavior Therapy for Children Diagnosed with ADHD

Speaker: Caroline DuCoin, PsyD
Child & Family Therapy Clinic, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

Details:

7:15 – 8:45 pm
Loyola College Graduate Center
2034 Greenspring Drive
Timonium, Maryland 21093

About the program: Dr. DuCoin will address assessment and diagnosis of ADHD, the associated factors of ADHD, understanding the presence of ADHD, and how these concepts are integrated to guide the course of therapy. She will specifically be focusing on the effectiveness of behavior therapy for children with ADHD.

About the speaker: Dr. DuCoin has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University with an emphasis on child and family psychology. While at Nova, she taught psychology and interpersonal communication courses and served as the founding clinical coordinator for the Anxiety Treatment and Research Center. Dr. DuCoin is currently at Kennedy Krieger Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she has a postdoctoral fellowship appointment in the Child and Family Therapy Clinic.

For driving directions and other calendar listings: www.chadd-mc.org/calendar

Description:

• Gain valuable information and tools to meet difficult challenges
• Learn to be an effective advocate for child, teen or adult
• Preserve family relationships
• Learn to manage treatment
• Partner effectively with teachers

Find more information about Parent to Parent training here.

Next Class: Four Tuesdays: September 14, 21, 28 and October  5 from 6 pm (sharp)

Details:

Location: Loyola University Maryland Timonium campus
2034 Greenspring Dr.
Timonium, MD   21093

Cost: $100 for 1 or 2 family members sharing materials (CHADD members);
$145 for 1 or 2 non-members, which includes a year’s family membership!

To register or for more information contact:

Please contact Sharyn Rhodes
DrSRhodes@aol.com
Or call (410) 458-6500

Download the flier and registration form here

CHADD of Greater Baltimore does not hold regular speaker meetings in Timonium in the summer.
We resume regular meetings on first Wednesdays in October, 2010
Please check back here for information about our fall programs.

Check out our special program September 24 with author Ari Tuckman

Make Love, Not War

Relationship Strategies for Adults with ADHD
A light-hearted look at making relationships work

This parent support group meeting is held the second Thursday of each month. A light dinner is served at 7.
This meeting begins at 7:30. Meetings are open to the public and there is no charge.
Meeting will be held at

Dundalk Pediatrics
2112 Dundalk Avenue
Dundalk, MD  21220

Additional Directions:

Dundalk Avenue to right on Pine, right into parking lot.
Come through doors and down 1/2 flight of stairs.
Office is in lower level just off the parking lot.

Always check the calendar for meeting dates and locations of this group.
You might find doing choosing Event Type: Parent Support Group useful. Or you use a search on Dundalk. (Use the search box in the left navigation pane.)