Description
<p>Does your child have ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)?</p><p>Meet David, one of award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon's "Classroom of Kids," who manages his ADHD with the help of classmates.</p><p>David discovers ways to cope with his hyperactive brain, while learning how to calm and soothe his ADHD. Solutions include setting daily schedules and following simple rules that regulate behavior. His teachers and therapists encourage using the computer for academic advancement, and to establish a pattern for study as well as for occasional recreation. David not only learns self-control and communication skills, but is able to fit into the classroom and make friends.</p><p>Once again social values are emphasized in the author's latest illustrated children's story, and classroom friends from previous books are featured. In fact, David has been part of the class for a long time!</p><p><strong><em>"David's ADHD</em></strong><em> is a timely topic for parents and children. A story in rhyme that demystifies ADHD. It explains a youngster's behavior in terms of his inattentiveness and impulsivity and how it impacts those around him. A sensitive way of creating understanding for children with ADHD and their families."</em> - <strong>Dr. Valerie Allen, licensed school psychologist</strong></p><p><strong>Author Bio: </strong></p><p>Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won 76 awards for her previous 11 rhyming books. She is also the author of seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. The author has been called "an absolute master of rhyming" and "a modern-day Dr. Seuss."</p>
Story Behind The Book
Peter started learning Chinese at age 14 in 1970, out of interest in foreign languages. It turned out to be love at first sight. After finishing high school, he started studying Chinese and was selected to be one of the first Dutch exchange students to study a year in China in 1975. He had a diverse career after graduation, including teaching Dutch in China, teaching Chinese in Holland, selling food ingredients in China for a Dutch company, setting up his own consulting practice and then back to academia again. He obtained to PhDs along the line.
China is hot at the moment and numerous Westerners visit the country for shorter or longer periods. This book takes the reader back to the period of the Western pioneers in China. We were the first Westerners from 'capitalist' countries who staid in China for a longer period and had considerable interaction with Chinese citizens. In a way, we contributed to the period of economic and political reforms that started in 1979.
This book tells the story of a few European students in China in the final year of the Cultural Revolution period. The reader learns about China through their eyes, as they learned about that then secluded nation while the studied, looked around, and recreated European student life on alien campus.
