ATTEND Treatment Strategies: Parent Rating Scales

Please rate your child’s behaviors as directed below before beginning the use of Attend and/or other VAXA products. Place your first scores under the “Baseline” category. Then rate his or her behaviors every two weeks to track progress and improvements.

Rate the following behaviors on a scale from zero to five as follows:

0 – Over the past seven days I have not seen this with my child at all

1 – Over the past seven days I have seen this happen, but just a very a little

2 – Over the past seven days I have seen this sometimes, but not too often

3 – Over the past seven days my child has done this somewhat

4 – Over the past seven days my child has done this enough that it is a problem

5 – Over the past seven days this has been a really a big problem for my child

	Baseline	Week 2	Week 4	Week 6	Week 8
Struggles to complete his/her school work	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Does not seem to listen or pay attention	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Has a hard time concentrating on difficult tasks	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Is easily distracted	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Cannot organized his/her school work	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Interrupts others	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Is very restless or very fidgety	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Gets mad easily, or is easily frustrated	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Has trouble with reading or spelling tasks	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Has trouble with following directions	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Seems afraid of many things, worries a lot	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Has trouble shifting from one activity to another	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______

Now, please write down the exact number of times that the following behaviors have occurred in the past seven days…

Temper Tantrums lasting more than 2 minutes	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Excessive Anxiety or Worry lasting more than 2 minutes	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Violent or Aggressive Outbursts, screaming or hitting	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Withdrawing, or isolating from others for more than 2 minutes	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
Crying episodes, unusual sadness for more than 2 minutes	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______

Dear Parents,

Before you begin, we want to encourage you to complete these rating scales on a regular basis so that you can track your child’s progress over the next eight weeks. We truly believe that the use of specific VAXA products over a 45 to 60 day period of time will bring about considerable improvement in your child’s behaviors and performance, especially when combined with our recommended eating program. We recommend the use of two to four Attend capsules per day. You may also want to consider a “loading dose” of four to six capsules per day for a period of three or four days early in the program. All of our clinical studies used four capsules per day, however smaller or younger children can still benefit from smaller doses of Attend.

If your child also has problems with temper tantrums, or is easily frustrated, or suffers from worry or anxiety problems, then we would strongly recommend Extress in addition to the Attend. Extress is highly reliable in reducing both the intensity and the frequency of these problems.

If your child has significant problems with short-term memory, or memorization, we would recommend Memorin in addition to the Attend formula.

If your child seems withdrawn, or unusually sad, he or she may be somewhat depressed. Please have this assessed by a physician. If the physician determines that it is not a serious depression, consider the use of VAXA’s Deprex in addition to the Attend formula.

We have a detailed web page with free information for you on the various types of attention problems, and on specific treatment strategies for each. We believe that the use of targeted and specific treatment strategies will both improve your understanding of your child’s condition, and improve the odds of success for you and your child. At this web site we discuss our observations about six different “styles” or “types” of ADHD that we describe as…

· Winnie the Pooh Type ADD - Inattentive, distractible, disorganized. Nice, but lives in a cloud.

· Tigger Type ADD - Inattentive, impulsive, hyperactive, restless, bouncy.

· Eeyore Type ADD - Inattentive, with chronic low-grade depression.

· Piglet Type ADD - Trouble shifting attention, excessive worry, easily startled.

· Rabbit Type ADD - Trouble shifting attention, inflexible, argumentative.

· Troubled Type ADD - Irritable, aggressive, impulsive, defiant, disobedient. Learning problems.

Each of these types of ADHD will have different treatment needs and approaches, so please visit our web page to learn more about each at www.newideas.net/add_types.htm .

Thank you for choosing VAXA products. We wish you and yours the best of success!

Sincerely,

Douglas L. Cowan, Psy.D., M.S.

VAXA Medical Advisory Board

VAXA International, Tampa, FL

(800) 248-8292