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)

Details:

7:30-8:30 pm

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

Upper level dining room, at a table aganist 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

The ADHD workplace support group provides adults opportunity to discuss work-related concerns and information dealing with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the workplace.

This support group for adults USUALLY meets on the occurs third Monday of the month, September through June.  Check the calendar for exceptions.

September 20
October 18
November 15
December 13

7:30 – 9:30 PM

At La Madeline Cafe
11858 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD

Free and open to the public. For additional information call 301-251-8722.

Group Facilitator: August Spector

Here’s a flier about Montgomery County Adult Workplace Support Group 2010

Check the calendar for upcoming events.
Choose Event Type: Adult Support Group.

Speaker meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of each month
EXCEPT school holidays.)

at the Twinbrook Library
202 Meadow Hall Drive
Rockville, MD

Time:

7:30 Speaker program
followed by discussion and Q&A

Always check the calendar for meeting dates and locations of this group.

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.

Still distracted? Miles off task?
Late? Running out of excuses?

Here’s a chance to swap strategies.
Success and horror stories welcome!

Details:

Generally the 1st Thursday of every month

7:15 to 8:45 p.m.

Mid-County Services Center
Rm. 215, 2424 Reedie Drive
Wheaton, MD
240-777-8100

(In same block as Wheaton Metro stop on Glenmont Red Line!
Across from Wheaton Triangle!)

Gather for coffee at Dunkin’  Donuts across the street before the meeting.

Contact: E-mail  joans.palmer@gmail.com; Call Anne (301-920-4952)

Here’s the flier for the Montgomery County Adult Support Group Meetings for Fall2010

PLEASE NOTE: 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 Mid-County Services Center (240-777-8100) to check on cancellations.

Parent to Parent Training

The extensive course materials include over 350 slides, teacher notes, articles, reference materials, handouts, and homework assignments. Each participant receives a binder including copies of the presentation slides, background information, articles, and supplemental information about AD/HD. The course is based upon state of the art, evidence based information on the treatment and management of AD/HD.

Next Class: October 17, October 24, November 7 and November 21

Four Sundays from 1:30 -5:30 pm

Location:

Holy Cross Hospital
1500 Forest Glen Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Cost: $125 for 1 or 2 family members sharing materials (CHADD members);
$145 for 1 or 2 non-members, which includes a year’s family membership!

For more information please contact:

Asha by email: ashascielzo@gmail.com
or by phone: (301) 643-5207

Download the _Fall 2010 Parent to Parent Flyer and Registration form here

Find more information about Parent to Parent training here.

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