Peter Gray looking for ADHD stories
NCMama
Peter Gray, PhD, who has studied and written about natural learning, and who will be speaking at the Northeast Unschooling Conference in August, is asking for your experiences with ADD/ADHD.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201007/i-want-your-stories-adhd-in-homeschoolers-unschoolers-and-free-schoolers
I do not have direct experience, but I have heard again and again of unschoolers' ADD being 'cured' as soon as they were out of school and allowed to focus on what they wished to. As a friend of mine put it, "ADD, the only disease completely curable by removing the cause: something boring."
Caren
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201007/i-want-your-stories-adhd-in-homeschoolers-unschoolers-and-free-schoolers
I do not have direct experience, but I have heard again and again of unschoolers' ADD being 'cured' as soon as they were out of school and allowed to focus on what they wished to. As a friend of mine put it, "ADD, the only disease completely curable by removing the cause: something boring."
Caren