Age: 7 Gender: Male Location: Coconut Creek, Florida Background: For this young seven year old from Florida, it was difficult to pin-point exactly what would help his attention problems. Psycho-educational testing had showed that although he had a fairly even profile of average cognitive abilities with no particular strengths or weaknesses, he displayed symptoms of autism [...]

Age: 10 Gender: Male Location: Cleveland, Ohio Background: This 10 year-old boy from Ohio suffered from very a complex neurology consisting of a seizure disorder, severe migraine headaches, and school failure/behavior difficulties.  He documented attention and working memory deficits and often flared into anger from his frustration. These problems caused the boy to be isolated, [...]

Age: 10 Gender: Male Location: Phoenix, Arizona Background: This 10-year-old boy from Phoenix, AZ had great difficulty sitting still in most situations. His parents lamented that the boy could only sit and concentrate when he was in front of computer games or while participating in other fun activities that he took great interest in. The [...]

Age: 12 Gender: Male Location: Houston, Texas Background: This boy from Houston, TX suffered from severe attention problems in school. He had not yet learned to read properly by the age of twelve and had a great amount of difficulty initiating school assignments on his own. After being assessed by clinical psychologists, it was determined [...]

Age: 10 Gender: Male Location: Ventura County, California Background: A friendly child from Ventura County, CA, this ten year old boy often charmed teachers with his winning personality. But in third grade they began to notice that he had considerable trouble focusing and remembering tasks. His parents noticed too, as homework became a daily up-hill [...]

Age: 8 Gender: Female Location: Northbrook, Illinois Background: For this eight-year-old of Northbrook, IL, math class was a daily problem that didn’t always add up. Diagnosed with ADHD in second grade, she struggled to focus her attention long enough to perform the mental steps necessary for solving seemingly simple math equations. Despite constant encouragement from [...]

Age: 12 Gender: Female Location: Forest Park, Illinois Background: For this twelve year girl old of Forest Park, IL, getting ready for school was a major event in the house, often with disastrous results. Diagnosed with a mild case of ADD, she struggled to remember the order of tasks which made it difficult to develop [...]

Age: 12 Gender: Male Location: Long Beach, California Background: For this young boy, homework was a daily struggle that sometimes left the whole family in tears. Diagnosed with a mild case of ADHD, he struggled to retain information from one day to the next. “We’d study with him for hours for a simple vocabulary quiz [...]

Age: 9 Gender: Female Location: Concord, Massachusetts Background: An exceptionally bright child, this young girl tested extremely wellin all areas of intelligence except working memory. Her inability to retain multi-step instruction left her bewildered in the classroom; “I just don’t get it” was the frequent refrain to her teachers. “Second grade was tough but by [...]