FWA Aventura Writers Group

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.

Dr Gradin is an author, speaker and behavioral consultant from Boston who is frequently in the South Florida area. For more information he can be contacted at adhdnet@aol.com. He is currently scheduling a series of seminars and workshops in the region including a free teleseminar in March. You can also keep a watch out for his bi-monthly column scheduled to begin in April. This additional resource for the ADHD community will include questions from readers.

February 23 - a critique meeting

Questions? Contact me at m_most@yahoo.com

See you at the library
Mary
www.marydubovoy.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Aventura Writing Group's meeting
Saturday, January 12th, 2008 from 2 pm to 4 pm
Topic: "Releasing Your Inner Child - Publishing Books For Children" by Joy Vaughan-Brown

This presentation looks at what it takes to self-publish, market and profit from the publishing of children's books. Participants will engage in fun, hands on exercises and action plans guaranteed to ensure their success in the marketplace. Although this workshop is geared towards the children's market, participants of any genre can benerfit from the workshop's contents.

Come to North Miami Beach Library and participate in Joy's workshop. All Aventura Writing Group's meetings are free and opened to the public.

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

Mary
www.marydubovoy.com