When ADHD Impacts Your Child’s Academic Performance
Featuring Ann K. Dolin, MEd Students with ADHD often find math and writing challenging, because both subjects require extensive working memory. But almost any student can master writing and math with the right study hacks and strategies. Unfortunately, these important skills are not always taught in the classroom. Effective strategies can make the difference…
Read MoreShould Students Attend IEP Meetings?
Should students be included in IEP and other meetings to plan their academic accommodations? High school students are already invited to attend the meetings regarding their academics, but what about elementary and middle school students? Student attendance at meetings that determine services they will receive is part of teaching them self-advocacy. The Individuals with Disabilities…
Read MoreConnecting in Dallas #ADHD2022
After two years apart, the ADHD community assembles in Dallas, Texas, for the Annual International Conference on ADHD this weekend, to celebrate our strengths and many connections. This is the world’s largest gathering of ADHD professionals and individuals and families affected by ADHD. For the first time it is a hybrid conference, with attendees both…
Read MorePerfectionism and ADHD Can Become Unhealthy for Children
An educator, concerned for the well-being of his students, wrote to a professional journal, seeking advice. “I can’t fight the forces that lead kids to be hard on themselves or to believe they need to build the perfect resume or go to a highly ranked college, but I’d like to do something to ease their…
Read MoreHelping to Build Up a Child’s Self-Esteem
Another note has come home from school: your child forgot to turn in his homework. Again. He struggles with organizing information into an assigned report. He works five times as hard for a passing grade as his schoolmates do. He talks too much, interrupting his peers, and is left on his own during recess. He…
Read MorePodcasts for Parents: Healthy Eating Habits | Fathering with ADHD
How to Help Your Child with ADHD Create Healthy Eating Habits, featuring Mark Bertin, MD ADHD 365 Several aspects of ADHD, such as distractibility, impulsiveness, issues with organization, under planning, and emotional regulation can affect eating habits. How can parents help children with ADHD create and maintain healthy eating habits that will stay with them…
Read MoreThe Art of the To-Do List
You’re settling into bed at the end of the day and your eyes snap open—and you realize you didn’t do half the things you wanted to do that day. Did you finish anything you wanted to get done? Whether the activities are “have-tos,” such as cleaning the bathroom or getting your tax information together, or…
Read MoreHelping Teens Become Resilient Adults
It seems that some teens and young adults bounce back from challenges more easily, or if they need more time, that they still return to a pretty good spot in life rather than becoming defeated. Resiliency—the ability to bounce back, or to weather difficult times and remain positive—is a concept many people, and some researchers,…
Read MoreCHADD Webinars: ADHD and Toxic Relationships
CHADD Webinars: ADHD and Toxic Relationships Wednesday, October 26 | 5:30 EDT Featuring Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, PhD Far too often, it feels like adults with ADHD are drawn into toxic relationships. These relationships can be found at work, at home, in friendships, and between romantic partners. You can learn how to protect…
Read MoreResources That Can Help Following a Crisis
Following a natural disaster, the resulting emotional, mental, and financial setbacks can be overwhelming. People with mental health conditions face a uniquely challenging post-disaster journey, particularly if they experience disruptions to their treatment plans. While some events are beyond human control, a disaster’s impact can be lessened with helpful coping mechanisms and awareness of available…
Read MoreOur Shared Experience: ADHD Awareness Month
There is a saying: If you know one person with ADHD, then you know one person with ADHD. It means that everyone’s experience with ADHD, its symptoms, and its effect on someone’s life is different. It’s also true that there are many common and shared experiences among the those who have ADHD that help to…
Read MoreAfter the Storm: Weathering Disaster and Managing ADHD
“I had to pull myself together and get through it.” Liliana Gutierrez and her family survived Hurricane Ian, even as the massive storm moved their house off its foundation and the walls began to crumble. With her mother, Maribel Gutierrez, Liliana and younger family members fled their house only to be met by a wall…
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