Willie: Raising and Loving a Child with Attention Deficit Disorder - Hardcover

9780670863143: Willie: Raising and Loving a Child with Attention Deficit Disorder
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ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder, now diagnosed in up to ten percent of school-age children - has vaulted into public awareness and into a succession of self-help books. But this is the first to take the reader, through a mother's eyes, into the day-to-day life of a child with ADD and its dynamics in the home and beyond.
Ann Colin's compelling journal recounts her son Willie's first five years of life. Willie is intelligent, creative, affectionate, and amusing. He is also overly excitable and belligerent. We follow Colin and her husband from school to school, doctor to doctor, seeking a correct diagnosis - from an insensitive preschool staff, to the psychologist who pronounces Willie brain-damaged when he walks on tiptoe, to the seesaw of medical opinion on treatment and drugs.
It is a marathon that takes them from bewilderment and exhaustion, through coping, to triumph. For a family facing ADD or any other crisis, and for educators and therapists, Willie is an inspiration and a lifesaver.

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Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric illness among children. An estimated 10 percent of school-age boys are currently on Ritalin. At age four, Ann Colin's son Willie was charming, bright, belligerent ... and kicked out of preschool. Willie, written in the form of a journal, is an interesting and often moving story about parenting an ADD child--diagnosis problems, psychiatrists, drug trials. Colin, writing from the perspective of a middle-class Manhattanite who wants Willie to achieve, moves from fear and uncertainty to finding the care and school situation that is right for him. She asks, "What is normal and by whose definition?"
About the Author:
Ann Colin is a former features editor of McCall's magazine. Her articles have appeared in Marie Claire, Elle, New York magazine, and Seventeen. She lives in New York City.

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  • PublisherViking Adult
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 0670863149
  • ISBN 13 9780670863143
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages272
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