Ask the Expert

Help Kids with ADHD Build Social Skills and Resilience in a Digital World Ask The Expert

 February 5, 2025 8:00 EST


Sharon Saline, PsyD

Children with ADHD face unique challenges in today’s social landscape, including digital communication and hybrid learning. This webinar offers caregivers and educators practical ways to help them navigate social situations online and in person. Attendees will learn methods to help children enhance social awareness, reduce anxiety, and foster meaningful connections.

All registrants will receive a link to the webinar recording. This webinar is at 8 pm EST.

Sharon Saline, PsyD, clinical psychologist and author of What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life and The ADHD Solution card deck, specializes in working with children, teens, young adults, and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptionality, and mental health issues. With decades of experience as a clinical psychologist and educator/clinician consultant, she guides families and adults toward effective communication, closer connections, and greater understanding. She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as ADHD and neurodivergence, executive functioning, the anxiety spectrum, motivation, perfectionism, and working with different kinds of learners. Dr. Saline is a regular contributor to Attention magazine, hosts weekly Facebook Live sessions with ADDitudemag.com, blogs for PsychologyToday.com, a featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV and a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work. Her writing has been featured in numerous online and print publications including MSN, The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Attention magazine, PsychCentral and Inquirer.com. Learn more at drsharonsaline.com.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Understand how modern social environments affect children with ADHD.
  2. Identify challenges related to interpreting social cues and managing anxiety.
  3. Use strategies to foster empathy and emotional intelligence.
  4. Break down nonverbal communication and its importance in various settings.
  5. Evaluate social strategies for navigating challenges.

Live Q&A:

Dr. Saline will host a live Q&A session after her presentation, offering attendees the chance to ask questions and receive personalized recommendations.

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The information provided by CHADD’s National Resource Center on ADHD is supported by Cooperative Agreement Number NU38DD000002 funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).