FWA Aventura Writers Group

South Florida Writers and all FWA members:

Aventura Writing Group wishes to all of you Happy New Year!
We are looking forward to the great presentations and workshops and to the opportunity to share our experience and knowledge with the group.

We will continue our meetings at North Miami Beach Library twice a month on the second and fourth Saturdays from 2 pm to 4 pm. I confirmed our schedule with the library for January and February.

Here is the schedule:

January 12 - a presentation. Topic: "Releasing your inner child" by Joy Vaughan-Brown. Joy is a member of Aventura Writing Group and works at Broward Community College. Check this blog after January 1st for more detals.

January 26 - a critique meeting

February 9 - a presentation. Topic: "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)" by Dr. Roy Gradin.

Dr Gradin is a member of Aventura Writing Group and a retired psychologist with the 30 year professional career practicing behavioral psychology in Massachusetts. After his retirement and re-location to the Miami area, he began writing his memoir about his experience raising a son with ADHD and the severe behavior problems that are associated with the disorder. In addition to sharing his expertise on the topic of ADHD Dr Gradin, a novice at writing professionally, will describe the course that researching and writing the book took him on. During this process, he began a detailed description of the procedures that he developed and followed to manage the behavior problems that his son (now a 22 yr-old junior at FSU) exhibited on a daily basis. As a result of the research that he was doing for his book, it became evident that there was no effective behavioral treatment available for severe behavioral symptoms of ADHD or the more difficult to manage ADHD with ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder). Dr Gradin recently presented the treatment that he created and formalized into "Non-Traditional Parenting: The solution to solving ADHDs severest behavior problems" along with the research that he completed working exclusively via the Internet with the mother of a difficult 7 year-old boy, at the International Conference on ADHD in Washington D C on November the 8 th this year. This is also the title of his book. Dr Gradin provides an interesting account of what has developed into a major breakthrough in the treatment of ADHD, which has been long over due.

February 23 - a critique meeting

Questions? Concerns? Feel free to contact me at m_most@yahoo.com

Best wishes,
Mary