The title of this post is "An ADD Alternative", and maybe if you found me here you are looking for something beside an herbal remedy. I am not saying there is anything bad about that, but how about if we look at something very basic that does not have to do with the physical aspects of this problem.
My child's school has 0% ADD kids. Thats zero. Okay, yes, its a small private school and that is very helpful, but that doesn't mean that you can't achieve that statistic for your kids. How did we do it? Something very special that you can learn and implement yourself. It is something that was developed by the well known philosopher and writer L. Ron Hubbard. We call it simply "the study tech" and it is the summation of a body of material that Mr. Hubbard developed to help students to learn what they are studying in a way that they can apply it to real life.
In our school, we do not have the approach that our kids have "ADD" or "learning disorders". We have instead, kids who have "barriers to study". What are they? Mr. Hubbard isolated the three key barriers that will occur when any student is studying, whether child or adult. When a student encounters one of the three barriers, and does not follow the technology of how to clear that barrier, these are just some of the symptoms that have resulted:
feeling blank, bored, dull, "not-there", confused, agitated, reeling, excessive anxiety; feeling stupid, faultfinding, feeling "wronged by others" a "look-what-you-did-to-me" attititude,
and the list goes on.
The three barriers to study are gradually taught to the kids from an early age and gradually the students begin to recognize when they have encountered one. They begin to spot it in themselves and they then sort it out for themselves with the tools that they have learned and they return to study very happy.
Can you imagine this: student gets crabby at the teacher or another student and gets argumentative. Student realizes for himself that he is being argumentative and crabby. Student looks in the material that he has just been studying and finds that he has passed several words that he did not completely understand the full meaning of. Student clears them up with the dictionary and is now happy and busy plowing through the rest of his course material. This is ideal. It can happen. If you would like to learn more about the first barrier to study, click here:
If you would like to learn what the second barrier is, click here.
and if you would like to learn what the third barrier is, click here.
This technology is available for you to learn at home for yourself. For more info click here.
