Ready for Take-Off: Preparing Your Teen With ADHD or LD for College

by Theresa E. Laurie Maitland, Patricia O. Quinn

An Honors NAPPA (National Parenting Publications Awardss) Winner

Mom's Choice Award for Parenting Books - Special & Exceptional Needs (Gold) In today’s world, getting accepted to college is only half of the battle. Staying in there is another matter altogether. And for students with ADHD or learning disabilities, staying, thriving, and graduating from college can be very challenging even for the most academically prepared students.

Using college readiness surveys and handy worksheets,  Ready for Take-Off  teaches you how to promote self-determination, academic, and daily living skills in your teen—skills needed to succeed in college and in life. Inside you will learn to With this guide, you will become skilled at coaching and boost your teen's college readiness. So, let's go! Are you ready for take-off?

Genres: Adhd, Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 2010

About the author

Theresa E. Laurie Maitland is currently the Coordinator of the Academic Success Program for Students with LD/ADHD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been on the staff at UNC since 1994. It is Dr. Maitland's passion to work with individuals with learning, attention, and emotional challenges so they can turn those challenges into gifts. Prior to joining the staff at LDS, she worked as a special class teacher at all grade levels, a college professor, an in-service trainer, and a clinician.

In 1984, Dr. Maitland helped develop a unique, private, multidisciplinary clinic for individuals with cognitive, emotional, and behavioral challenges and their families. Throughout her career, Dr. Maitland has conducted numerous local workshops and national presentations on topics related to teaching and parenting children, adolescents, and young adults with these challenges.

Since 1996, Dr. Maitland and her colleagues at UNC have been studying the field of professional coaching and its application to college students with special learning needs. As a result, in 2003 she became a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC).

Dr. Maitland has a private practice which allows her to function as a professional coach and a consultant who specializes in working with teens and adults with learning, attention, and emotional challenges and their families.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book should be on the reading list of every parent with a child with ADHD, learning disabilities, 504, or IEP. As one of those parents, I often panic at what’s going to happen when college comes around and this book helps parents put together a guide on how to best help your child get there. It is a fantastic resource that I will reference again and again in the coming years.

I would recommend this book during 7th-8th grade as that is a great time to start thinking about this. Before then, just support your child and set up structure for them to be successful, however that looks. The independence discussed in this book comes at adolescence.

One million stars!

[Laura S · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book offered solid background before offering a quick and easy quiz for both parent and student. The best information comes after the quiz, giving detailed advice in specific areas, suggestions on how to set measurable goals and timelines and discusses coaching a teen in realistic terms.

[Heather W. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am reading this book with two focuses. The first is how we can use my middle daughter's high school years as preparation and a building up of her strengths to be ready for college, despite her LD/ADD. The second is that our eldest is a junior in high school now and how we can be sure she too is prepared, despite not being LD/ADD like her sister. Parenting is such a tough job. We want to help and I've learned that often my helping is more harm than good. This book has made me think..