�Everything I learned has, within that relative system, validity. So, if somebody comes to me with a problem, they come to me living within that psychological context. I have incredible empathy for their perception of reality, partly because of what I've been through in it. You've got to go into the sub-system to be with the person within it, and then create an environment for them to come out of it if they want to. That seems to me to be a model role for a therapist�.
Ram Dass (1994)
Professor of Physics, Richard Alpert, who has changed his name to Ram Dass, has stated the following concerning therapists, but most aptly applies to the case of successful teaching:
Ram Dass speaks of the role of the therapist, stating that those who have an intimate understanding of their patient�s reality, through having lived it, themselves, are able to empathize and then create an accurate environment through which legitimate change may be effected. As teachers of AD/HD students, we need to offer an environment supportive in a way which will truly allow our students to exercise their talents and learn how to take advantage of who they are and how they interact with the world.
VII. Role of Stimulation
According to Thom Hartmann, Psychologist, practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and among many other successful endeavours, the founder of the Hunter School for ADD children located in New Hampshire, USA, the symptoms of both ADD and ADHD are relieved by the same thing: stimulation.
�When dreamy types or hyperactive types are put into a classroom with a Robin Williams-like teacher, they can both suddenly learn and pay attention: their need for aliveness is met. When boys or girls with ADD or ADHD are given stimulant drugs, the hyperactive ones calm down externally and the dreamy ones report that their �internal conversation� quiets down: by turning up their sensory volume control, the stimulant drugs are chemically meeting their need for aliveness.�
(Hartmann, 2002)
It is our intent to explore the role of a stimulating environment together with an educated teacher in elevating attention of pupils with AD/HD.
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