Help Parenting ADHD with ODD child

Thanks for your comment.  How are things going now?  My daughter is going through a spell or relatively good spell behavior wise and then I am not sure I want to spend the money on a program.  Then she goes through a spell of belligerent, rude and stubbon spell and I'm ready to try something again.  So I would like to how of the success or failure of this progam in your families experience and my hope is for you that it will be a success!

Thank you, please do let me know how things go.  I am interested and hopeful for you.

Oh my God, I think you are a God sent, And for me its worth looking into. My son, when I personally felt in my heart that something was wrong with my son, He was a toddler. I thought at first  I might be over reacting, Then as time went on, I knew something was wrong but, I didn't know what. When I had taken him to Sylvan LEARNING Center because he was failing 1st grade, which was a private school. He inproved in 6 wks in grades but, she also told me that he might have ADD. I could really tell you alot more but, I don't think I have enough space.But I felt like none of the medication worked for my son with his distructive behavior. The last Doctor we went to when he was in 10th grade said he was boarderline on being Bypolar. Before he was ADD, ODD their was 1 more I can't remember it. This was the biggest concern to me when he was young, Until finally, a Doctor saw what I saw, thats how he started to get help in school.But not until I had found an advocate. The program seemed to be more focused on him to function in the classroom. I was concerned and stated many times that his thinking was off, the way he thought of things, the way he would ractionalize situations. My son never showed any emotion when he was young, He just expressed when he was angry, I didn't know what made him happy, I would even ask him what do you like, or ask him what he wants to do. He'd always say I don't know. He didn't smile much. These are things I noticed about my son. It was killing me, because I didn't know what to do for him

My eleven year old was first diagnosed with ODD, we tried treating the ODD with no success and he also attends a behaivoral academy 5 days a week after school....it was not til we found an excellent psychiatrist that diagnosed him with Social Anxiety Disorder and started treating that, did we start seeing his social skills and the rude and unacceptable behaivor start to detour....we are now having much success with the correct diagnosis and correct meds....not an over night cure...but an overnight success I do believe.....keep educating yourself with many different emotional and social disorders and you to will find help...it took me 7 years to getthe right diagnoses and meds....he is doing so much better now and is a happy child, the 7 years of research and all the doctors has paid off.....also there is a wonderful program called Brain Gym that we use with meditation for helping the child cope and relax.

I have a son who is 18 1/2 yrs old with Add, Odd, borderline intelligence, OCD, and bi-polar.  He is also a truant from school. Prior to this he was in a residential placement setting for a year and half. He is presently mandated to attend counseling and group sessions.  I think he has a lot of underlying resentment for this placement. Is it too late to use the TT program as it appears to be focused toward younger children.  He has been in a lot of trouble with the law.  I have tried using the token system but it does not work.  Any suggestions, out there for those who used the TT program? Is there any information on what has worked with older teenagers and what has not?  PLEASE POST ANY INFO FOR ALL OF US TO LEARN. = THANKS, CATHIE

my 6 yr old daughter recently got put on adderall er, and my husband and I think she seems to be getting worse when she's on it. Now at school her teacher sees an improvement in her paying attention. But her not paying attention wasn't the typical of an adhd child; she wasn't fidgeting or doing other things while the teacher was teaching or disrupting the class by acting out, it was like she was dazing out  she would be looking at the teacher like she was paying attention,but whenthe teacher would say her name or ask her a guestion about what she was talking about my daughter would have "the deer in a headlight look on her face". nNow at home is a totally different story .... at home is more of an odd behavior. So I'm curious about the 6or 7 types of add/adhd that there is b/c I definantly think she has one of the 4 that you can't treat with just stimulants. I'm almost doubting that she even has it b/c of how the stimulant makes her have more temper tantrums and is meaner to her siblings and her friends. I too am interested in trying the james lehman tt program. if anybody has any advice I'd love to hear it!! thanks