ADHD Helps Kids Be Successful
Millions of frustrated parents finally have an alternative. Families with an ADHD child have endured dire predictions, pessimistic attitudes and medication intended to change their child’s nature. But Celebrate!ADHD® has pioneered a positive approach that dramatically improves self-confidence, relationships and school performance…by working with a child’s nature, not against it.
Washington, D.C. (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) August 9, 2005 -- For parents like Terri Quilicci of Leesburg,
Virginia, an ADHD diagnosis traditionally portends a childhood filled with
struggle and failure.
“Since our son’s teacher uttered those four
letters, all we’ve heard is negativity and pessimism,” Quilicci says.
Two years of Ritalin and $12,000 of therapy later, the fatalistic view
had shattered the confidence and joy of ten-year-old Alex. Then Quilicci
discovered a completely different approach.
Celebrate!ADHD®, the nation’s
preeminent organization equipping children with ADHD for success, is the only
organization that teaches parents how to foster their child’s natural wiring --
instead of trying to change their child through pressure or
medication.
Celebrate!ADHD Executive Director and Founder Kirk Martin
asserts, “The key to our success is cultivating each child’s natural gifts,
talents and passions. Society desperately needs the energy, creativity, passion
and persistence that only children with ADHD possess.”
Terri Quilicci
enrolled Alex in the organization’s ground-breaking Trailblazers™ Creativity
Camp and relies on Martin as a Life Skills Coach. “Alex is like a new child
now,” Quilicci says. “He feels good about himself, he’s developing healthy
relationships and he no longer needs medication.”
Children with ADHD
don’t need to be changed -- Celebrate!ADHD has witnessed an 85% reduction in
Ritalin use through its positive, proactive approach.
“A parent’s
attitude is the most potent prescription,” Martin contends.
The
organization’s research proves that individuals with ADHD possess many superior
traits necessary for extraordinary success as entrepreneurs and performing
artists. History validates this assertion. Edison, Monet, Disney, Michaelangelo
and Spielberg -- not to mention leading performers such as Bono and Johnny Depp
and iPod inventor Steve Jobs -- have shared the qualities of
ADHD.
Celebrate!ADHD is equipping children for success by pioneering a
number of firsts: In order to acknowledge the significant contributions people
with ADHD make to society, Celebrate!ADHD has declared September 20th, 2005 the
first annual "National Celebrate ADHD Day."
On the same day, Martin will
mark a first by simultaneously releasing a non-fiction title for parents,
“Celebrate!ADHD,” and a novel, “Gifted,” about a seventeen-year-old boy with
ADHD. In 2006, Celebrate!ADHD will unveil the nation’s first “School of
Creativity and Entrepreneurship” -- the only true educational option that
capitalizes on the strengths of children with ADHD.
Find more information
on the web at www.celebrateADHD.com.
About Celebrate!ADHD/ Kirk
Martin
Celebrate!ADHD is the nation’s preeminent organization equipping
children with ADHD for success by developing their natural gifts, talents and
passions. Their innovative Camps, Workshops and Schools are training the next
generation of trailblazing entrepreneurs and creative performers.
Executive Director and Founder Kirk Martin is an accomplished speaker,
author and entrepreneur who serves on the Board of a Charter School for at-risk
children in Washington, D.C. He has been called “The ADHD Guru.” An experienced
interviewee, Martin has appeared on numerous television and radio programs.
Martin is particularly adept at interacting with audiences and encourages
Q&A sessions with parents starving for a positive way to help their
children.
Contact:
Anna
Caldwell
Celebrate!ADHD
1-703-508-7909
www.celebrateADHD.com
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