Myadhd.com was developed to help
practitioners and families communicate more
efficiently to facilitate the assessment of
ADHD and monitoring of treatment. Since the
inception of www.myADHD.com nearly
five years ago we have had an enormously
enthusiastic response to the tools on the
site. Mental health professionals have
subscribed to myADHD.com and have used the
site successfully to assess, track, and treat
those with ADHD and related disorders.
In developing myADHD.com, the development
team's goal was to make it easy for providers
of care to communicate with one another
easily, quickly and in a cost-effective way.
To reach this goal, we
collected a series of behavior rating scales,
history forms, and checklists and posted
these on the site as Assessment Tools. These
could be used to collect data on symptoms of
ADHD and co-morbid conditions that would
help experts collect data used in determining
a diagnosis.
Next we developed a set of Tracking Tools
that could be completed by parents and
teachers as well as ADHD adults to provide
information on treatment progress (i.e., a
student's improvement in symptoms of
inattention, hyperactivity, or impulsivity).
Then came the inclusion of a unique electronic
delivery system
that enabled subscribers to send and receive
these Assessment Tools and Tracking Tools to
parents, teachers, and doctors with ease,
speed, and very low cost. Once
completed, these Assessment Tools could be
stored in the subscribers private account so
that decisions could be made about diagnosis
and management of those with ADHD.
Treatment Tools were also developed that
would provide subscribers with hundreds of
strategies and worksheets that could be used to
improve executive functions, social behavior,
study skills, and work related skills to
improve job performance.
Using The Subscriber Administration Page
The Subscriber Administration Page is the
main control center for sending and viewing
myADHD.com assessment and tracking tools (see
a sample Subscriber Administration Page
). Every subscriber has a private myADHD.com
account containing rating scales that can be
sent electronically to others for completion
and viewed once completed. When subscribers
login they are immediately taken to their
personal Subscriber Administration Page. From
there they can send scales to others, view
completed scales, and keep an address book of
important contact information (emails, phone
#'s, etc). This makes sending and receiving
form data very easy. There are over a dozen
forms that can be sent-a few in both English
and Spanish.
For example, if you want to send a link to the
Vanderbilt Assessment Scale to a middle
school student's five teachers all you have
to do is make an address record for the
student in the contact book, add the
teachers' email addresses, and select the
Vanderbilt Assessment Form (Teacher Version)
from the scroll down menu. With one click of
the mouse you have sent each teacher a
Vanderbilt form to be completed online. When
they complete the form you get an email
stating you have received a completed form
for viewing. All completed forms remain in
your account and can be accessed through your
Subscriber Administration Page.
The Subscriber Administration Page can save
health care professionals both time and
money. Rather than sending costly paper forms
through the mail or having families pick them
up at your office, the myADHD.com forms can
be transmitted electronically with unlimited
frequency in seconds. Recipients of these
forms (teachers and family members) enjoy
completing them online. You get the
information you need quickly to make
decisions.
Parents or adults can use the Subscriber
Administration Page as well to manage forms.
A parent
subscriber, for example, can send the Weekly
Monitoring Form to their child's teacher
electronically. Once received the parent can
send an email to their child's health care
professional to view the completed form to
see the student's progress.
Treatment Tools
The page containing myADHD.com Treatment
Tools is the most highly visited page on the
site. There are over 125 worksheets designed
to help children, adolescents, and adults.
Everyone of them can be printed and used by
therapists, parents, educators, or adults
with ADHD.
The myADHD.com Team has focused on developing
practical treatment tools to help children,
adolescents and adults in the following key
areas:
- behavior management
- study strategies
- cognitive training for self-control
- cognitive training for managing anxiety
and depression
- budgeting
- time management
- career seeking
- social skill training
For example, a parent, teacher or counselor
working with a child with ADHD can choose
from nearly three dozen behavior charts to
use with the child or teen at home or at
school. Select a colorful chart, print it,
and use it as often as you like. If you need
a Daily Report Card there are several to
choose from for children of different ages
and for different target behaviors. Need a
Home Token Economy Program? We have one
complete with a detailed manual on how to set
it up. Deciding about medication? Use one of
our worksheets to help you think it through.
Library Tools
myADHD.com Library Tools are available to
subscribers and non-subscribers who are
interested in learning about ADHD resources,
links to scientific articles, and support
organizations. These tools are continuously
updated to provide current information about
ADHD across the lifespan.
Find out more about myADHD.com by visiting
our site and exploring all the wonderful
tools that are there to help make you work
more productively.
