Hello, I’d like to tell you about my ADHD Summer Enrichment Camp at the Leelanau School on the shores of Lake Michigan near Traverse City. The Introductury program runs from July 18 through July 23. This unique introductory program is intended for students entering grades 5 through 12 and their parents. Each morning, I meet with the parents, while the wonderful teachers at Leelanau meet with the students and help them develop an appreciation of their strengths, as well as some new grasp of skills to promote their education and lives in general. After the morning sessions, students and parents can go enjoy the lovely resort at Leelanau. Last year it was exciting to see how much the parents gained simply by being with other parents of kids who had ADD, and how much the kids gained from learning in a strength-based situation. In just a week it seemed that we accomplished a year’s worth of growth and understanding.
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Please click here to go to the Leelanau website www.leelanau.org, or you can access the brochure here.
Warm wishes,
Ned HallowellÂ
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are there any other camp dates or areas that offer these enrichments?
Is there a camp for adults with ADD?
My son told me yesterday he is a “Meanderthal” – that he enjoyse meandering through life. Would this camp help him to focus, yet still be the charming thinker that he currently is? He does not necesary believe in AD/HD…..
I’m a mom of a wonderful, very ADD 19 yr old daughter. She has come home with 2 incomplete classes hanging over her, and thinking she does not want to go back to school for her sophomore yr at a great college, where she has a terrific scholarship and finished with a 3.3 GPA, IF she gets the classes finished up. Counselors, home and school, just seem to be frustrated with her indecisiveness. I’m not angry at her, just feel sorry for her as she prepares to blow her chances to even go back later if not this fall, with her indecisiveness and lack of motivation. She doesnt know what she wants to do, but doesnt seem to be looking. Huge denial, lots of late night blog reading on the internet. She has friends and family who love her, and we have such good times together, until this comes up, and then she refuses to discuss it, wanting to own it. In reality, it is owning her, and I wish I knew how to help her find the help she needs. The clock is ticking, and I thought just leaving her alone this sumer, letting her own the choices or lack thereof, was the right course. Now I am not so sure. Any suggestions? It seems to me that she needs a Motivation camp, like summer camp when she was younger to get her recharged about life and what she has to contribute. I don’t even know who will read this, if anyone, but I hope someone has the answers for where to start. I am so tired of so-called professionals who seem to have no answers but to come back next week, and let her just go on feeling badly about herself. She has so much talent and so much to offer the world, but doesn’t realize it right now.