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Getting the Most Out of myADHD.com
Since the inception of www.myADHD.com a little over one year ago we have had an enormously enthusiastic response to the tools on the site. The myADHD.com team wanted to use this issue of the newsletter to explain how subscribers are using these tools so that you would be able to get the most out of your myADHD.com subscription.

Using The MY CONTROL PANEL
The MY CONTROL PANEL is the main control center for sending and viewing myADHD.com assessment and tracking tools (see a sample MY CONTROL PANEL ). It is an important tool and it is unique to myADHD.com.

Every subscriber has a private myADHD.com account containing rating scales that can be sent electronically to others for completion and viewed once completed. When subscribers login they are immediately taken to their personal MY CONTROL PANEL. From there they can send scales to others, view completed scales, and keep an address book of important contact information (emails, phone #'s, etc). This makes sending and receiving form data very easy. There are over a dozen forms that can be sent, many in both English and Spanish.

For example, if you want to send a link for a Vanderbilt Assessment Scale to a middle school student's five teachers all you have to do is make an address record for the student in the contact book, add all the teacher's email addresses, and select the Vanderbilt Assessment Form (Teacher Version) from the scroll down menu. With one click of the mouse you have sent each teacher a Vanderbilt form to be completed online. When they complete the form you get an email stating you have received a completed form for viewing. All completed forms remain in your account and can be accessed through your MY CONTROL PANEL.

The MY CONTROL PANEL can save health care professionals both time and money. Rather than sending costly paper forms through the mail or having families pick them up at your office, the myADHD.com forms can be transmitted electronically with unlimited frequency in seconds. Recipients of these forms (teachers and family members) enjoy completing them online. You get the information you need quickly to make decisions.

Parents or adults like the MY CONTROL PANEL as well. A parent subscriber, for example, can send the Weekly Monitoring Form to their child's teacher electronically. Once received the parent can send an email to their child's health care professional to view the completed form to see the student's progress.

Treatment Tools
The page containing myADHD.com Treatment Tools is the most highly visited page on the site. There are over 125 worksheets designed to help children, adolescents, and adults. Everyone of them can be printed and used by therapists, parents, educators, or adults with ADHD.

The myADHD.com Team has focused on developing practical treatment tools to help children and adolescents in the following key areas:
• behavior management
• study strategies (organization, reading, note taking, attending, etc)
• anger management
• scheduling and organizing time and things
• cognitive behavior change for depression and anxiety symptoms
• career planning
• tracking medication effects
• understanding learning differences

For example, a parent, teacher or counselor working with a child with ADHD can choose from nearly three dozen behavior charts to use with the child or teen at home or at school. Select a colorful chart, print it, and use it as often as you like. If you need a Daily Report Card there are several to choose from for children of different ages and for different target behaviors. Need a Home Token Economy Program? We have one complete with a detailed manual on how to set it up. Deciding about medication? Use one of our worksheets to help you think it through.

Library Tools
myADHD.com Library Tools are available to subscribers and non-subscribers who are interested in learning about ADHD resources, links to scientific articles, and support organizations. These tools are continuously updated to provide current information about ADHD across the lifespan.

Delivered from Distraction
In their new book, Delivered From Distraction, Drs. Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey build on the breakthroughs of "Driven to Distraction" to offer a comprehensive and entirely up-to-date guide to living a successful life with ADD. Both doctors are diagnosed with ADD themselves, and are perfect examples of how, with the right treatment, a person with ADD can succeed beyond their wildest dreams.

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Free Teleconference • February 9, 2005, 8:30-9:30 PM
MyADHD.com and ADDvisor.com invite you to sign up for our next free live ADHD teleconference.This free teleconference entitled Medical Management of ADHD features Jefferson Prince, MD. Dr. Prince is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and is a member of the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinic and Research Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also Director of Child Psychiatry and Pediatric Psychopharmacology at North Shore Children’s Hospital. Find answers to your questions about medical management of ADHD and related conditions in children and adults.

January's Featured myADHD.com's Tools
Starting off the new year helping your elementary school-aged child organize their school work. Train good study habits with these myADHD.com Study Strategy Tools. They were provided by Leslie Davis, M.Ed., Sandi Sirotowitz, M.Ed., and Harvey C. Parker, Ph.D. from their book: Study Strategies for Early School Success.
• 1002 Are Your Organized? A Checklist
• 1003 School Supplies Checklist
• 1005 Organizing Your New School Papers
• 1006 Organizing Your Old School Papers
• 1007 Is Your Bedroom Organized?
• 1008 My Picture Perfect Bedroom
• 1009 Get Energized to Organize

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Visit myADHD.com today, register, and view our collection of over 150 tools to assess and treat ADHD and related conditions in children, adolescents and adults. If you like what you see please consider subscribing to this new web-based service for ADHD.

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