NewIdeas.net has been providing free, easy to understand information on attention deficit disorder to parents and teachers since the early days of the internet. Over the years we have developed a "family" of internet sites into a network of ADHD information. Over 200,000 parents and educators learn from our sites each year, making us one of the largest, oldest, and most respected ADHD resources on the internet. Our other sites include

• ADHD Information for Parents at ADD101.com
• 500 Classroom Interventions at ADDinSchool.com
• The Six Types of ADHD at MyADDChild.com
• and others

About Dr. Doug Cowan

Our Clinical Director and author is Dr. Doug Cowan. In private practice for over 15 years, Dr. Cowan has worked with over 1,000 ADHD children and their families. He now serves his central California community as the Pastor of Family Ministries at Country Oaks Baptist Church, providing parenting workshops, marriage retreats, family camps, house-building trips to Mexico, counseling to the community, and much more. He still maintains the clinical information on our web sites, and still serves on the Medical Advisory Board of VAXA International, in Tampa, Florida.

Experience:

• Private counseling practice specializing in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, teens, and adults from 1987 to 2003.
• Directory of Youth Services in charge of the Children's Inpatient Program, the Adolescent Day Treatment Program, the Outpatient Diagnostic Services Lab, the Adolescent Chemical Dependency Treatment Program, and the Adolescent Psych. Inpatient Treatment Program. Charter Hospital of Bakersfield, 1988 to 1991.
• EEG Biofeedback treatment services for ADHD in clinical setting from 1992 to 2001.
• Head injury research for Flexyx Project, 1995 to 1998.
• Clinical Research Study for VAXA International on ATTEND Nutraceutical medicine, 1995-1996.
• Host of the popular "Family Matters" Radio program in California's Central Valley on KERI, 1991 to 2000.
• President, Board of Directors, KAXL FM 88.3 1998 to present.
• Pastor of Family Ministries, Country Oaks Baptist Church, Tehachapi, CA. 1998 to present.

Education:

• Doctorate in Psychology,
• Masters Degree in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling,
• Bachelors Degree in Philosophy and Religion.