Resources
The Hello Friend Foundation is a public, non-profit organization dedicated to these with learning differences. The Foundation helps those with creative needs to celebrate their individual creativity.
The Foundation promotes the early recognition of differences, compassionate understanding and thereby encourages effective education.
The site has numerous resources and projects that are on-going.
The Adopt A Patient Foundation is a public, non-profit organization dedicated to those who have been given no hope. The purpose of the Foundation is to help those with so-call incurable problems. A major purpose of the Foundation is to set up programs for those with learning differences, children who are considered slow learners, dyslexic or troubled children.
Check the site to view the ongoing projects.
The Amen Clinic for Behavioral Medicine is an innovative clinic specializing in uniquely thorough diagnostic methodologies for a wide variety of neuropsychiatric, behavioral and learning problems for children.
The Amen Clinic is well-known for its creative work with brain Spect imaging.
Dr. Amen has written some of the finest books available about ADD, ADHD and other learning differences. His in-depth research has opened the door for many to finally understand why they are suffering when there is so little understood about what is happening.
Functional Optometry recognizes the following facts:
- Visual differences can and often do interfere with learning.
- Learning related visual problems need the expertise of a functional optometrist who does a through diagnostic and management service.
- The goal of the functional optometrist is to improve visual function and relieve interfering symptoms.
- Prompt diagnosis and proper therapy enhance the ability of all to learn to their full potential.
- Those with learning differences require help from many disciplines, and functional optometry contributes one aspect of the multidisciplinary management required for lifelong learning.
The Zone is not some mystical place. It is a state of hormonal balance that can be achieved by your diet. In particular, it can be defined as keeping the hormone insulin in a tight zone: not too high, not too low. The Zone Diet is a life long hormonal control strategy. Once you begin to think about food hormonally instead of calorically, you begin to realize that many of the dietary recommendations made by the U.S. government and leading nutritional experts are simply dead wrong.
Dr. Holub is one of the leading researchers in the world regarding EPA and the use of fatty acids. This site will give you numerous references regarding his published research.