LDAQ 2010 September Workshops & Groups

 Call Now to register at (514) 487-3533

Held at Queen Elizabeth Health Complex 2111 Northcliffe Suite 212  

• Nurtured Heart Parenting Workshops - (6 sessions) 
• Sat. ((10-12pm)-Theraplay NHA Social Skills Groups - (8 sessions - for parents & children ages 5-6)
• Sat.  (1:30pm-3:30pm)-Theraplay NHA Social Skills Groups - (8 sessions - for parents & children ages 9-11) 
• Sun.  (10-12pm)-Theraplay NHA Social Skills Groups - (8 sessions - for parents & children ages 7-8)
• Sun.  (1:30pm-3:30pm)-Theraplay NHA Social Skills Groups - (8 sessions - for parents & children ages 12-14) 
• Teen Character Building NHA Groups - (8 sessions - for parents & teens ages 15-17) 
• Thurs.- Young Adults Group- (ages 18-20- 6 sessions)
• Women & ADHD Empower Your Life:   1 Day Workshop - Finally an inspiring workshop just for women. Embrace your hidden gifts & qualities by learning new "strength based" interventions and a vocabulary of positivity. Join us for a day of experiential learning using art, drama and play. Meet others and celebrate your GREATness. 
• LDAQ Aqua-Kids: Swim, Art & Gym Program: For youth ages 6-16 who have ADHD, LD, aspergers & fine or gross motor skills difficulty. Held at the Hampton YMCA in NDG Fridays from 6 pm-8:15 pm. Join the fun, swim & meet new friends.

LDAQ Montreal Chapter 1: Chapter Chat Evenings

7pm - 9pm (free for members)
Held at The Queen Elizabeth Health Complex 2111 Northcliffe Suite 212  Registration is Required - Contact Linda (514) 487-3533

• Monday, May 10 The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children. DVD by Dr. Ross Greene. This DVD will show parents specific, practical ways they can recognize the signs of an impending explosion, defuse tension and reduce frustration levels for the entire family.Monday, April 12, Look What You've Done! Learning Disabilities and Self-Esteem DVD by Dr Robert Brooks. Whether failing a test or accidently breaking a vase, kids with LD often hear these words. Nationally known expert on learning disabilities, Dr. Brooks says we need to discover each child's "islands of competence" and build on those strengths. This DVD will offer parents practical strategies for helping their children develop the confidence and resilience they will need to succeed.

•   TBA-Adult ADD Chapter Chat- Please join us for an evening where you will meet others and gain ADD-ucation.

• TBA- Look What You've Done! Learning Disabilities and Self-Esteem DVD by Dr Robert Brooks. Whether failing a test or accidently breaking a vase, kids with LD often hear these words. Nationally known expert on learning disabilities, Dr. Brooks says we need to discover each child's "islands of competence" and build on those strengths. This DVD will offer parents practical strategies for helping their children develop the confidence and resilience they will need to succeed.

• TBA- Parenting From The Inside Out. Join us to discover methods that enrich your parent-youth relationship. 

   

Special Education Advisory Committee Parent Conference, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at Rosemere High School, 530 Northcote, Rosemere. J7A 1Y2 6pm-10pm call (450) 965‐4208 to register

 Linda Aber will present: Stop the Yelling & Learn Strategies to Connect: Understanding & Parenting ADHD/LD Youth

Finding yourself yelling, feeling overwhelmed, frustrated and searching for tools that work? This workshop will provide experiential insights into parenting children/teens with ADHD/LD. Learn about the 5 pathways of delay that present difficulties for most youth and the top 2 biggest parenting mistakes traditional parenting methods has us making. Acquire strategies you can immediately utilize for attachment parenting, co-regulation, collaborative problem solving, and nurturance to enhance your parent-youth connection. Become success mentors instead of the dreaded behaviour police.

LDAQ Public Information Lecture

Tuesday April 27, 2010,   7:30 pm-9:30 pm. Held at The Montreal Children's Hospital Amphitheatre D-182, 2300 Tupper, Montreal

How to Stay Sane & Married While Raising an ADHD/LD Child 

Speaker: Dr. Mordechai Glick, Ph. D. clinical psychologist will discuss how any kind of stress takes a toll on a marriage. When that stress is significant & ongoing, as is often when raising an ADHD/LD children, keeping our marriage in reasonably good shape can be a major challenge. He will discuss how marital problems, parenting challenges and stress increase the marital tension. In this session, you will learn:

• the best kept secret about marriage and how being aware of it can make a difference between frequent/constant marital tension and a great marriage
• why raising a child with ADHD/LD usually adds significantly to marital problems
• how "good communication" can be your worst enemy
• what you can do to turn things around and start building the marriage you've always dreamt about.

2010 Learning Disabilities Association of Quebec Conference

Held at The Fairmount Queen Elizabeth Hotel on Friday, March 26th at 8:30 am

Speakers: Linda Aber: Certified Nutured Heart Advanced Trainer, Certified Theraplay Group Specialist and Sheila Ostroff: M.A. Art/Drama Therapist will present:

The Nurtured Heart Approach for School: Transforming the Difficult Student

The Nurtured Heart Approach will provide teachers with powerful, quick, relationship skills that promote student success within the school and classroom. Created by family therapist and author Howard Glasser. (Transforming The Difficult Child), it is a method especially successful for children with ADHD and those with challenging behaviours, such as learning disabilities, aspergers, mood and oppositional defiant disorders.

Strategies will be offered that enable teachers and other school personnel to have a dramatically positive effect on those difficult students and the entire class, promoting a sense of competence, self-mastery, self-control and greater levels of behavioural and academic achievement.

Hundreds of schools and classrooms nationwide have experienced the powerful benefits of using this approach, such as reduced classroom disruption, suspensions, bullying, increased on task behaviour, teacher productivity and satisfaction.

This was previously presented at the 2009 QPAT Conference: Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers Friday, November 20th

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