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The Boy Who Always Said No

He is hunched over his work at the back of the classroom. His teacher reaches for the bin, his arm slams down to guard it, and he shouts one word loud enough that the whole room goes quiet. No. Everyone sees a defiant boy. Nobody sees that a few minutes earlier he was building something, it was not finished, and the order to stop arrived with no warning his body could feel. He was frightened. No was the only tool he had. For roughly two out of three children who collect the label oppositional defiant disorder, the why is not defiance. It is fear wearing a defiant mask. This boy has a name. Theo. Read more about the book: https://www.helpingchallengingchildren.online/the-boy-who-always-said-no This is the digital edition. You get the PDF and EPUB files by instant download. This is not a printed book. It costs less here. The same ebook is $5.99 on Amazon. It is $4.49 on this page. Would you rather have it in print? The paperback is $10.99 on Amazon.

$4.49 USD

The Girl Who Couldn't Sit Still Inside

She holds it together all day at school and comes apart the moment she gets through the front door. Her teachers say she is doing fine. Quiet, polite, maybe a little dreamy. Nobody is calling home, so nobody is looking closely. Girls are diagnosed with ADHD years later than boys, and many are never diagnosed at all, because she is not the child bouncing off the walls. The signs are there. They are just quiet ones, and they get missed. This is Sarah's story. Read more about the book: https://www.helpingchallengingchildren.online/3rd-the-girl-who-couldn-t-sit-still-inside-ad This is the digital edition. You get the PDF and EPUB files by instant download. This is not a printed book. It costs less here. The same ebook is $9.99 on Amazon. It is $7.99 on this page. Would you rather have it in print? The paperback is $16.99 on Amazon.

$7.99 USD

The Space Between the Words

Your seven-year-old is bright. You can see it in the drawings, in the things he builds. Ask him about his day and you get one word. Good. Fine. Okay. The thoughts are in there. You watch him reach for the words and come up empty. This is Marcus, and this is where his story starts. What he has is called expressive language disorder. It is not a problem of intelligence and it is not a problem of effort. It is a problem of getting what is inside out into the world. Book one of the Marcus Long series. This is the digital edition. You get the PDF and EPUB files by instant download. This is not a printed book. Would you rather have it in print? The paperback is $9.99 on Amazon.

$0.99 USD

When Stories Don't Make Sense

He can read every word on the page out loud, perfectly. Ask him what it was about and he has nothing. Third grade is where this stops being hideable. His classmates are discussing why a character did what she did, and he is looking at words that never turned into pictures. Marcus is eight now, and the speech therapy worked. This is the next thing, and it is a real and separate disability. He decodes beautifully. He comprehends almost none of it. Book two of the Marcus Long series. This is the digital edition. You get the PDF and EPUB files by instant download. This is not a printed book. It costs less here. The same ebook is $4.99 on Amazon. It is $3.99 on this page. Would you rather have it in print? The paperback is $9.99 on Amazon.

$3.99 USD

The Friendship Code

He knows the words. He is bright, he is kind, and he still cannot get in. He stands at the classroom door running through the rules you taught him that morning. Make eye contact. Smile when you say hello. Do not talk too long about robots. Every one of them a rule the other children never had to be told. Knowing language and knowing what to do with it are two different skills. This book is about the second one. Book three of the Marcus Long series. This is the digital edition. You get the PDF and EPUB files by instant download. This is not a printed book. It costs less here. The same ebook is $4.99 on Amazon. It is $3.99 on this page. Would you rather have it in print? The paperback is $9.99 on Amazon.

$3.99 USD

Lost In Translation

You gave him three instructions. He heard all three. He understood all three. Ten minutes later he has done none of them, and everyone in the building has decided he is lazy. Middle school is where this falls apart, because middle school runs on spoken directions that nobody writes down. Marcus is not lazy and he is not slow. His working memory cannot hold a string of spoken instructions long enough to act on them. Written down, the same boy is fine. Book four of the Marcus Long series. This is the digital edition. You get the PDF and EPUB files by instant download. This is not a printed book. It costs less here. The same ebook is $5.99 on Amazon. It is $3.99 on this page. Would you rather have it in print? The paperback is $9.99 on Amazon.

$3.99 USD

The Invisible Rules

At thirteen the rules change, and nobody announces it. Friendships reorganize over a weekend. There are hierarchies every other child seems to have been handed a map for. A boy who spent years learning the rules one at a time, out loud, finds that the rules have moved. This is Marcus at the age when being different stops being something the adults manage for him and becomes something he has to decide how to carry. Book five, the last one, of the Marcus Long series. This is the digital edition. You get the PDF and EPUB files by instant download. This is not a printed book. It costs less here. The same ebook is $5.99 on Amazon. It is $3.99 on this page. Would you rather have it in print? The paperback is $9.99 on Amazon.

$3.99 USD

The ADHD Student and Homework Problems

The medication is working. The teacher says he is calmer. Homework still takes three hours and still ends in tears. If you have ever thought that you do not see your child's learning improving even with the medication, you are not imagining it. About half of students diagnosed with ADHD also have a learning disorder, and a good many of those are never identified. Treating the attention does nothing at all for the second problem. This book is about finding the second problem. This is the digital edition. You get the PDF and EPUB files by instant download. This is not a printed book. It costs less here. The same ebook is $6.99 on Amazon. It is $4.99 on this page. Would you rather have it in print? The paperback is $10.99 on Amazon.

$4.99 USD

Podcast

Helping Challenging Children Podcast

You can't know all there is about challenging children. It would require you to be an expert in many disciplines. This podcast is geared to  helping professionals understand the many struggles and barriers that children and adolescents experience while trying to grow up. Each episode, different issues and organizations who are working to help challenging children will be highlighted.

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