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ADD/ADHD: additional thougths

In my last post I discussed the fact that my son's school has zero % ADD, or ADHD, and the fact that the study technology of L.Ron Hubbard is the method we use for success. Well, I thought about this some more and the fact that perhaps it could be thought that we have kids who fit the "ADD/ADHD" criteria but just have not labeled them because we don't believe in it. The test of any technology is if it gets results.

In my son's school, passing grade is......100%! Think of it- not one student moves on to the next level of study or the next component of learning, until any difficulty whatsoever with what has just been studied has been resolved and the student can fully apply the material to life. Testing does not have to do with memorization of facts, rather the student is questioned in such a way as to test his ability to apply. He can not pass unless he has full comprehension, not just robotic memorization of fact. And every student does pass in a reasonable amount of time. Sounds sort of refreshing, doesn't it?

A student who studies in this fashion does not feel jittery, hyper, short of attention, or have behavior problems. A student who never "passes" one subject until he fully understands what has just been studied is a joy to be around. A composed, confident, happy individual.

If you would like to read what L.Ron Hubbard says about teaching with maximal effectiveness, click here:

An ADD alternative

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.