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A Call To Action To Aid
Students With ADHD
Thank you to the Jewish News for your
front page article on children diagnosed
and suffering with Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). I am a
daughter, sibling, cousin and parent to
three generations of family members liv-
ing with ADHD, and a lay advocate assist-
ing parents across Michigan. Please hear
me when I say, these children are suffering
in our public schools.
As a lay advocate assisting parents across
Michigan, the children with ADHD, psy-
chiatric disorders and developmental dis-
abilities are among the most egregiously
underserved in our public schools. I receive
calls every week from parents of students in
elementary, middle school and high school
being suspended and expelled, and yet the
public schools have failed to identify, evalu-
ate and provide, academic, behavioral, orga-
nizational and social work services.
Like Bill Murray in the movie
Groundhog Day, I live ADHD-Groundhog
Day over and over, every week and some-
times more than once a day. Michigan
schools are simply not building capacity to
understand the learning and psycho-social
needs of these children. Students struggle
to organize and keep track of homework
and schoolwork, or manage their time to
study for tests and quizzes. Then there are
the attentional errors the students tend to
make on exams and especially in math.
The kids are getting D's and E's on tests
and not because they haven't mastered the
content but due to their mental errors and
cognitive fatigue.
The problems and challenges these
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children face in school are only getting
worse due to an unprecedented economic
crisis in districts from Farmington Hills to
Walled Lake to Hamtramck (Detroit is a
given); along with our state's teacher prep-
aration programs that have not evolved
to prepare general education and special
education teachers and administrators to
understand students with ADHD, execu-
tive functioning deficits and other psychi-
atric disorders.
The bottom line: Fewer and fewer stu-
dents are being identified for academic,
behavioral and organizational instruction,
and instead they are being bullied, suspend-
ed and expelled. This is the harsh reality.
This is a call to action and thank you to the
Jewish News for blowing the horn.
Marcie Lipsitt
Franklin
Corrections
• The article "A Mission For The Ages"
(April 18, page 48) should have included
the names of the co-chairs of the 1993
Michigan Miracle Mission to Israel: Jane
Sherman, Susie Citrin and Larry Jackier.
• "IRP — Staying Active As You Age"
(April 18, page 13) had an incomplete
phone number. Call Sharon Levine of the
Institute for Retired Professionals at (248)
967-4030.
• In "There's No Place Like Home"
(April 25, page 8), the name of the Charles
H. Gershenson Fund was misspelled.
• "Run For Papa" (April 25, page 52)
should have stated that Jason Boschan's
fundraiser for Primary Progressive
Aphasia raised $54,000 last year and has
raised $17,000 so far this year.
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6 May 2 • 2013
Family Program Honors Jerusalem Day
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dat Shalom Synagogue in
Farmington Hills invites the
community to celebrate Yom
Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) at a fam-
ily program beginning at 6:15 p.m. on
Wednesday, May 8.
Participants will experience the sights,
sounds and flavors of the "City of Gold:'
A special social action project is planned
for teens.
"The first time I visited Jerusalem,
I was overwhelmed by fact that I was
walking through history, on paths that
were both ancient and modern at the
same time. After spending eight years
living in the Holy City, I'm excited about
our opportunity to bring a taste of this
to Adat Shalom," says Melissa Ser, Adat
Shalom's congregational educator.
"Yom Yerushalayim is the day we mark
the reunification of Jerusalem following
1967's Six Day War. We will all have the
opportunity, from here in Farmington
Hills, to leave notes in the Western Wall,
to take part in a mock archaeological dig,
to eat Israeli food, to do some Israeli danc-
ing and even to take part in an art project.
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FULFILLMENT
Sam and Melissa Ser
Our PJ Library program will offer story-
telling and crafts for younger children as
well, all with a Jerusalem theme:'
The program is free and open to indi-
viduals of all ages in the community.
There is a $3/person dinner charge.
The evening is made possible by a grant
from the Mandell & Madeleine Berman
Foundation.
Those who wish to make dinner res-
ervations should contact Debi Banooni,
Adat Shalom's Jewish Family Educator, at
dbanooni@adatshalom.org or (248) 626-
2153.
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