ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) : Achieving Success in School and in Life

Barbara Priddy Guyer, E.d. D., has extensive experience in the public schools, where she taught grades 2-6, remedial reading, and learning disabilities classes. She also taught remedial reading in a women's prison. She has been a consultant in special education as well as a principal in a city school system. Since 1975, she has been coordinator of the learning disabilities graduate program at Marshall University, Huntington, WV. In 1981 she began the H.E.L.P. Program (Higher Education for Learing Problems) as a support for undergraduate students with LD and ADHD. IN 1985 she began Medical H.E.L.P., a unique remedial program for medical students and physicians who have LD and/or ADHD. She is also the author of The Pretenders: Gifted People Who Have Difficulty Learning. She is the mother of two daughters who have Learning Disabilities and ADHD.