Speaker: Dr. Brad Sachs

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Centennial High School
4300 Centennial Lane
Ellicott City, MD 21042

7 PM – 9 PM

The process of helping children/students with attentional deficits, anxiety, and learning challenges, to become academically independent is a complicated one, and the strategies that parents tend to rely on often serve the purpose of undercutting, rather than augmenting, their children’s autonomy.

This lecture will provide attendees with a new understanding of the basis for self-motivation, as well as the conversations, methods and interventions that are most likely to reduce family conflict and ultimately enhance their children’s self-reliance and self-assuredness. This evening’s program will provide examples for all age ranges.

Dr. Brad Sachs is a psychologist, educator, consultant, lecturer and best-selling author specializing in clinical work with children, adolescents, couples, and families, in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Sachs is the Founder and Director of The Father Center, a program designed to meet the needs of new, expectant, and experienced fathers.

No pre-registration is required for this thought-provoking program!
Dr. Sachs’ books will be available for purchase.

Share the information with your interested friends and colleagues: Howard County ADHD Awareness Day Event Program Information

This event is not sponsored by CHADD of Greater Baltimore

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

The second Wednesday of each month, except holidays

Provides parents and caregivers of children and/or teens with Attention
Deficit Disorder an opportunity to share and discuss concerns about their children and to receive support for managing the many challenges of raising a child with ADHD.

Facilitated by experienced therapists affiliated with the Group Therapy Center at Alvord, Baker, & Associates, LLC in Rockville and Silver Spring

Details:

Twinbrook Community Recreation Center
TCRC Annex (240-314-8830)
12920 Twinbrook Parkway
Rockville, MD 20851

7:15 to 8:45 pm

Dr. Edward Spector, Facilitator/Coordinator; 301-593-6554, X46

Download Montgomery County Parent | Care Giver Support flier for 2010-2011

We follow MCPS closings. In addition, if storm warnings indicate that it would be dangerous to travel to/from the support group meeting, contact the Twinbrook center to check on cancellations.

CHADD Parent Support Group Meeting
(Need not be a member of CHADD nor a Howard County Resident to attend)
2nd Wednesday of each month

Meetings resume October 13, 2010

7 – 8:30 PM

Norbel School
6135 Old Washington Road
Elkridge Maryland, 21075

For information on the March meeting of parents in Howard County,
click 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.)