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Black History Month Resources for Families
Black American families can be proactive in addressing ADHD and helping their children thrive. CHADD’s materials offer information, help, and hope for overcoming barriers to treatment and dispelling stigmas.
When They Respond "What?" "Huh?" It Could Be Auditory Processing Disorder
ADHD presents challenges to a child’s listening skills, but sometimes it’s more than paying better attention to what they hear..
Webinar: Early Identification of Learning Differences
We have all heard the phrase “the sooner, the better,” especially when we are looking for interventions to help struggling students. When it comes to learning differences, this isn’t trite phrase—it’s a critical action.
ADHD and the Increasing Suicide Rate Among Black Youth
New studies indicate that much of the increase correlates to untreated ADHD. We can all help to change this.
Living Black with Undiagnosed and Untreated ADHD
How do we encourage conversation about mental health issues and educate culturally insensitive educators and healthcare providers?
Healthcare Disparities and ADHD
By coming to a shared understanding, caregivers, providers, and advocates can continue working collectively to reduce barriers to ADHD diagnosis and disparities in treatment.
Understanding Emotional Development
Here’s how you can support your child’s emotional well-being in each developmental period.
Building Better Homework Habits
Promote changes that help children take ownership of their schoolwork and form healthy study habits.
Overcoming Myths and Mistrust About ADHD in the Black Community
African American parents frequently have questions about an ADHD diagnosis for their children. Dr. Nekeshia Hammond discusses the evaluation process and shares what parents can expect when working with an ADHD professional.
The Relationship Between ADHD and Trauma
Certain ADHD characteristics, such as executive functioning deficits, inattention, and emotional regulation deficits, increase the odds that a person will experience traumatic events.
Managing ADHD and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Disruptive behavioral disorders, including oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and intermittent explosive disorder, often co-occur with ADHD.
Promoting Mental Health for Black Communities
Dr. Harolyn Belcher discusses the root causes of health disparities in Black communities, with regard to mental health and treatment. She offers culturally responsive solutions to help promote mental health and wellness for Black children, youth, and families.
When Is It Too Early to Diagnose ADHD?
ADHD symptoms in young children can become apparent before kindergarten, but when should families ask for an evaluation?
Webinar: Strategies and Solutions for Social Anxiety in Children and Teens with ADHD
As parents, it’s tough to watch your children and teens struggle. You may feel unsure about how to intervene, powerless to help them, and frustrated when they refuse your support. In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline will show you how to assist your child to participate more fully in social situations with greater confidence and less self-criticism.
Webinar: Becoming A Family Centered on Tourette and ADHD Excellence
Dr. Jane Indergaard and Jeremy Didier will guide parents in understanding the unique challenges of managing both ADHD and Tourette Syndrome.
Stay Cool Through the Yule
Revisit a perennial favorite for timeless advice before the seasonal chaos sets in.
Stay Cool Through the Yule
Revisit a perennial favorite for timeless advice before the seasonal chaos sets in.
Create Calm: It Really Matters!
Your child’s ability to regulate emotions is affected by what she or he is expected to manage. How can you build a supportive foundation of serenity at home?
Hints for a Happy Holiday
Experts and bloggers offer helpful tips to manage ADHD during the holidays.
Don’t Let Stigma Delay Proper ADHD Treatment for Your Child
Misinformation and disbelief can prevent children from getting the help they need.
Understanding and Responding to Your Child’s Resistance to Learning
Afsaneh Moradian, MEd, she explains the causes of resistance to learning and offers strategies and news ways of communicating to support children learning at home.
Do Stimulant Medications Reduce Adult Height? Not Likely
Parents frequently hear that medication will affect their child’s height. But is that really true? Experts say it’s unlikely to make much of a difference.
Nonstimulant Options for Treating Childhood ADHD
Families may prefer alternatives to stimulants in medication management for childhood ADHD.
Webinar: When ADHD Impacts Your Child’s Math & Writing Performance
Students with ADHD often find math and writing challenging. Both subjects require extensive working memory. But, almost any student can master writing and math with the right study hacks and strategies. The second quarter of the school year is now well underway, and effective strategies can make the difference between success and frustration for the rest of the year.
“Everyone’s So Tense All the Time”
It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. Create a tone in your home that improves family life.
Growing College Success from First Semester Failure
Executive functions and emotional intelligence top the list of greatest deficits causing students to struggle. How can they redirect toward success?
Should Students Attend IEP Meetings?
Participation in planning school accommodations is an important step toward self-awareness, self-advocacy, and self-determination for students with ADHD.
Perfectionism and ADHD Can Become Unhealthy for Children
Striving to be perfect as a way to compensate for ADHD symptoms can lead to unhappiness and anxiety in children and teens.
Helping to Build Up a Child’s Self-Esteem
ADHD symptoms can take a toll on a child’s ego. How parents react to a child’s struggles can boost their sagging self-esteem.
Parents of Very Complex Kids
These parents are often underestimated, undervalued, and underutilized—but they can become the most effective, contributing member of their child’s treatment team.
College Planning for Students with ADHD
As we learn more about the ADHD brain, it is evident that the transition from high school to college must be carefully thought out.
Podcasts for Parents: Healthy Eating Habits | Fathering with ADHD
New podcasts for you that focus on helping children with ADHD create and maintain healthy eating habits that will stay with them for life and the best interventions for men with ADHD, with tips for overcoming common challenges that arise when you are raising children.
Helping Teens Become Resilient Adults
The teen and young adult years can be difficult for the youth who has ADHD, and often can set a tone for their early adulthood. Helping teens develop resiliency skills can get them off to a better start in life.
After the Storm: Weathering Disaster and Managing ADHD
Major hurricanes disrupt lives in unimaginable ways. Adults and families affected by ADHD struggle with both symptoms and the demands of disaster recovery.
Resources That Can Help Following a Crisis
A list of resources for assistance following a natural disaster.
Understanding and Differentiating Between Autism and ADHD
Getting a correct diagnosis is the first step in helping a child get the proper treatment.
More Than Refills
A developmental-behavioral pediatrician shares why regular follow-up visits are a vital component of your child’s ADHD treatment plan.
Pause to Curb Impulsivity
Acting before thinking is an ADHD trait that can cause problems for many children and teens. Two experts offer tips on helping them avoid missteps.
Start the School Year with Positive Parent and School Communication
Open lines of communication early to help your child start the school year in the right way.
Webinar for Treatment Professionals: Working with Latino Patients and Their Families
While Latino communities have similar numbers of children and adults who have ADHD as the general population, Latino children in the United States are less likely to be diagnosed and receive treatment. Psychiatrist Luke Smith will discuss important cultural considerations for professionals treating Latinos who have ADHD.
You Don’t Know Jack: The Teacher Letter
You can help the new teacher understand what works for your child with ADHD. Here’s how.
To Test or Not to Test
Parents and students must be aware of current testing requirements before the college application process begins. Much has changed in recent years.
Can’t Stop Gaming? Help Your Child Set Limits
Video games are fun but can become overly absorbing. What can you do if your child gets too involved in gaming?
Research Shows ADHD Meds Do Not Increase Substance Use Risks
Researchers continue to study possible substance use cause by prescriptions. Several recent studies are coming back with good news regarding a decrease in risks when used properly.
How to Select the Best school Accommodations for Your Child
Jennifer Engel Fisher discusses accommodations that work for students who have ADHD. She gives listeners tips on how to tailor accommodations to the behaviors and needs of their child. You’ll learn your role is in monitoring your child’s accommodations and ways to track which ones are helping. She also discusses strategies to help your child self-advocate.
Supporting My Child with ADHD at School
You want to make sure your child has all the necessary tools to succeed in the classroom. It’s crucial that you establish good communication with your child’s teacher at the beginning of the school year to ensure a smooth and successful term.
Homework Solutions for Your Middle or High School Student
You want your child to stay motivated in school, organized, and on top of assignments. Your child wants to stay on track, too, but struggles. Why do they keep missing deadlines, losing homework, and end up starting an assignment the night before it’s due?
When Balancing Social Media Use Becomes a Challenge
The online world can be consuming, especially for teens and children who have ADHD. How do parents know when it’s time to put down the devices?
“Brain Training” Options for ADHD: New Fact Sheet
When your child’s ADHD symptoms go unmanaged, they cause disruption, creating stress and anxiety for everyone in the family. A psychologist shares behavioral strategies that can help.
Webinar Highlight: Communicating with Your Child’s Teacher
Linda Karanzalis provides viewers with ways to introduce their child to a new teacher at the beginning of the school year. She discusses new ways to communicate with educators about how ADHD affects your child, how to highlight current accommodations that are in place, strategies that have and haven’t worked, and how to ask for and incorporate the teacher’s ideas into a good educational plan.
Summertime Strategies to Address Your Child’s ADHD at Home
When your child’s ADHD symptoms go unmanaged, they cause disruption, creating stress and anxiety for everyone in the family. A psychologist shares behavioral strategies that can help.
Preparing for the Next Crisis: Your Circle of Care
Learn about supports and strategies you can set up in advance of any challenges.
Parenting Your Child with ADHD for Career Success
Support and guide them on their unique educational and career journey with these ten tips.
Irritable and Overwhelmed? Signs of Parental Burnout
Burnout is not just a workplace concern. Parenting can lead to feeling burned out and apathetic about family life and childcare.
Webinar: Parenting a Defiant Child: Won’t? Or Can’t?
When you’re frustrated that your child seems to ignore your directions, it can be hard to see a child’s behavior for what it is: a biological stress response. How do you respond in a way that meets those needs and still helps your child follow through on directions?
Challenges in ADHD Care for Children of Color
PART ONE
African Americans of all ages face many barriers in getting a proper evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment.
PART TWO
We still have a way to go in educating teachers and healthcare practitioners about ADHD and communities of color, and in making sure parents know how to advocate for their children in medical and educational settings.
Seminario: Rompiendo la cadena de desregulación emocional en familias que tienen niños con TDAH
En este seminario, la Dra. Giselle Colorado explica cómo se desarrolla los patrones invalidantes de comunicación y ofrece estrategias prácticas para reducir la invalidación y crear patrones de validación para mejor comunicación entre padres e hijos.
This webinar is offered entirely in Spanish.
Mental Health Matters for Teens and Young Adults with ADHD
Teens can face academic challenges, social difficulties and problems at home, however, having ADHD may make these issues more difficult to deal with or more severe. CHADD staff have collected resources that may be helpful for your teen and your family.
Help Your Child Better Cope with Social Anxiety
More than shyness, social anxiety can prevent young people from engaging with the world around them.
Changing the Way You Communicate with Your Young Adult
Relationships change, and hopefully grow, as teens move into young adulthood. Parents can help strengthen communication and set the tone for their future relationship together.
Ace the Break: Prevent the Summer (and COVID) Slide
Give children the tools and knowledge they need to start the next school year with greater confidence.
Summer Jobs and ADHD
Seasonal employment offers teens an important opportunity to explore career options and master basic work ethic skills.
Is Summer School a Good Option for Your Child?
Summer doesn’t always mean a break from school. Could attending classes during the vacation give your child an advantage next school year?
Smoothing the Transition into Summer
Summer break can be a relief from the routines of the school year, but it comes with its own set of challenges. Experts offer suggestions to help your family approach the upcoming season.
Webinar: Five Ways Nutrition Can Impact ADHD Symptoms
A healthy diet can be an effective complementary approach to alleviating some symptoms of ADHD for some people. Nutritional counselor and author Laura Stevens discusses adjustments to your family’s meal planning that may help to improve some ADHD symptoms. She offers tips on creating a plan for making changes to your family’s meals and how to track if those changes help to decrease symptoms.
How to Talk to Your Child About Scary Events
As much as you try to shield your children from disturbing news reports, many young people find out about scary events anyway. How do you, as a parent, comfort and help your children and talk to them about scary events?
How Can We Help Children with ADHD Get a Better Night’s Sleep?
A sleep specialist shares insights into specific problems and offers strategies for improved rest.
Guiding Complex Teens and Young Adults to Launch
With ADHD in the mix, there’s a higher risk for power struggles, communication breakdowns, and disconnected or conflicted relationships. What’s a parent to do?
CHADD Highlights the Most Common Children’s Mental Health Condition for Mental Health Awareness Month
During the May, CHADD is building awareness about children’s mental health needs.
Teens, ADHD, and Driving
A parent, lawyer, and ADHD coach offers recommendations on how to prepare yourself and your teen driver before anything happens.
Social Media Videos Often Share Misinformation About ADHD
Between clips of the most recent video dance challenges, there is information on ADHD. But is this information always accurate? Experts suggest what we should keep in mind when watching ADHD videos.
Podcasts: Mental Health Matters for Teens and Young Adults
Awareness and treatment for ADHD is crucial in parenting teens and helping them avoid increased health and social risks and to fulfill their potential.
Help Your Teen Transition from High School to College
The months between graduation and the start of college are vital to preparing your incoming first year student for new experiences.
Research Supports Need to Address ADHD to Improve Health
More studies are demonstrating how unmanaged ADHD in the teen years affects health and lifespan in adulthood.
Young People with ADHD at an Increased Risk of ‘Vaping’
Did you know that about 7 in 10 high school students are exposed to advertising for e-cigarettes? These ads often portray the product released by the vapor in the e-cigarettes as less risky than smoking regular cigarettes. The result can be seen in a recent increase in the number of teens who have taken up “vaping.”
Pregunte al experto: Explorando el TDAH en las familias Latinas
En esta presentación aprenderá sobre los básicos de salud mental y vamos hablar de temas sobre el TDAH que generalmente no se comparte.
Compensatory and Recovery Services for Students with ADHD
Students who fell behind during the pandemic might be entitled to these services to make up for harm caused by services they missed. Here’s what you need to know.
Creating a Cooperative Environment at Home
As the parent of a child with ADHD, your parenting skills are tested daily. Hone them with mindful practice.
Turning to Watch Can Release Neurotransmitters for Attention
Researchers are learning more about how visual cues improve some executive functions.
Webinar: Mindfulness, Stress & Emotion
Mindfulness is a long-term practice that allows us to better stay focused and settled under stress, teaches cognitive flexibility, and encompasses both compassion and ethics. It does not mean sitting still and is more than time spent on an engaging hobby. The concept of ‘nonjudgmental awareness’ means training ourselves to see our experience with clarity and determination.
What to Consider Before You Homeschool Your Child
Recent campus closures gave families a glimpse of what it could be like to homeschool. But is this the best option for your family?
Pandemic Reveals Children’s Mental Health Crisis
Public officials are raising concerns about increasing diagnoses of ADHD, depression, and anxiety among children and teens. Professionals, policymakers, and parents are exploring ways to help.
Webinar Highlight: Mindfulness, Stress, & Emotion
ADHD is a wide-ranging disorder that causes stress to individuals and families. Mindfulness is a long-term practice that allows us to better stay focused and settled under stress, teaches cognitive flexibility, and encompasses both compassion and ethics. Can it help your family?
Green Time for ADHD
Research indicates that children and adults who spend time in nature increase their ability to pay attention while lowering their levels of stress and anxiety.
LEAP: Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
An approach that combines parent behavior management training with aerobic exercise yields extra benefits for children with ADHD.
ADHD and Healthy Lifestyle Behavior
What does the research indicate be targeted to promote better health habits in children with ADHD?
ADHD Podcasts: Women and Girls with ADHD Paylist
Listen to our top podcasts focusing on girls and women, featuring Dr. Carol Robbins, Terry Matlen, and Dr. Ellen Littman.
Mothers and ADHD: Permit Yourself to Breathe
Mothers who have ADHD often face several challenges in their everyday lives. With the current pandemic, daily life can become even more difficult with ADHD symptoms. Procrastination, feeling overwhelmed, being disorganized, as well as being distracted are all ongoing challenges. At times, it can be difficult to even get through the day, especially when working from home. What are some strategies to cope with symptoms and challenges as a woman and a mother with ADHD?
Diagnosing ADHD
What should a conversation between a parent and expert be like when discussing an ADHD evaluation for a child? Listen in as a parent asks questions of a child and adolescent psychologist before making an appointment for her child.
When Teens Can Start Driving and When They Should Wait
Getting behind the wheel is an important step for most teens, but when should a teen with ADHD get the car keys for the first time?
Homework Solutions for Your Middle or High School Student
Sometimes, it can be just so frustrating: You want your child to stay motivated in school, organized, and on top of assignments. Your child wants to stay on track, too, but struggles. Why do they keep missing deadlines, losing homework, and end up starting an assignment the night before it’s due?
Girls with ADHD Internalize Struggles
When a girl has ADHD, she has a very good chance of "falling through the cracks." That's because the symptoms of ADHD in girls not only tend toward the predominantly inattentive presentation, but girls are more likely to internalize their struggles rather than act out because of them
Number of Women, Girls Filling ADHD Prescriptions Increases
Recently released numbers show a dramatic increase in the number of prescriptions for ADHD medication being filled for women and girls. Researchers hope to start a conversation on public health concerns regarding medication use and the possibility of pregnancy, while experts point out the benefits of treating ADHD symptoms in girls and women.
In This Together–Mothers and Daughters Who Have ADHD
Mothers and daughters: It’s a special relationship, but often a challenging one. When ADHD is part of the picture, there’s even more to think about, whether it’s the daughter who has ADHD or both mother and daughter who share the diagnosis.
Asking Powerful Questions
Applying this strategy can change the conversation and, over time, the course of development for your child with ADHD.
Friendship Problems? How Parents Can Help
Try this focused approach if your child struggles with peer relationships.
Resilience and ADHD During the Pandemic
Studies highlight the need for support for youth and young adults with ADHD during COVID-19, with a focus on the roles of emotion regulation, social support, and hope.
What Parents Should Know Before Contacting an Online ADHD Provider
You’ve likely seen advertising for online ADHD services. What should you be aware of when you consider scheduling a telehealth appointment for your child?
Plan an Educational Accommodations Meeting as Learning Situations Change
Schools are re-opening campuses but also continuing at-home learning as needed. Take this opportunity to have your child’s accommodation plan updated to better meet changing needs.
Living Black with Undiagnosed and Untreated ADHD
The Black community continues to have difficulty discussing and acknowledging ADHD and other mental health issues. On the flip side, it’s being reported that Black children are being over- and under-diagnosed, due to implicit racial bias and cultural incompetence among professionals. So, how do we change the mindset of Black Americans about mental health issues and culturally insensitive educators and healthcare providers?
Why Is Untreated ADHD Contributing to the Increasing Suicide Rate Among Black Youth?
Historically, deaths through suicide has been higher among whites than any other racial group. Recent studies have shown a growing rate of black youth who have now surpassed their white counterparts. The assumption is depression would be the major contributing factor to an increase in deaths through suicide. In many instances, family members say the child never seemed to be depressed. New studies show that much of the increase has been correlated to ADHD and untreated learning disabilities.
Plan Ahead to Avoid Prescription Challenges
Sometimes a medication shortage or a change in insurance rules can make it difficult to get a prescription filled. Experienced parents offer tips to help your family avoid or cope with such issues.
Motivating an “Unmotivated” Child or Teen with ADHD
Podcast: Helping African-American Students with ADHD Succeed
The African-American community is affected by ADHD at the same rate as other communities in the United States. However, barriers to evaluation and treatment for children with ADHD remain. Dr. Anita Stoddard discusses how we can overcome those barriers and create opportunities for success for African-American children.
Podcast: Barriers to ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment
What are the consequences of late diagnosis and treatment for ADHD in underserved and disenfranchised communities?
Webinar: Disparities in ADHD Care for BIPOC Children and Adolescents
Children of color frequently receive inadequate ADHD treatment and support because of underlying structural racism or lack of cultural competency—whether they are Black, Latinx, Asian American, Indigenous, or recent immigrants. Dr. Adiaha Spinks-Franklin will discuss how social determinants of health and implicit bias from some physicians negatively affects ADHD diagnosis and treatment for children and adolescents of color. Parents, especially, will find this webinar informative.
Webinar: Promoting Mental Health for Black Communities
Dr. Harolyn Belcher will discuss the root causes of health disparities related to mental health conditions and treatment. This webinar will benefit parents and professionals.
Executive Functioning Support for Kids with ADHD
Critical “manager” skills can be learned when taught explicitly, methodically, and collaboratively.
Things to Do By and In Early 2022
Encourage college students and high school seniors who have ADHD to celebrate, reflect, and recharge before next term.
Helping Teens Avoid the Pitfalls in Spending
Does your teen find that cash burns a hole in their pocket? An expert and a parent offer their ideas on teaching teens to be less impulsive when it comes to spending.
All in a Row: Getting Your Kids with ADHD Organized
During the holiday season it can be difficult to keep your home and children organized. Professional organizer Holly Hitchcock Graff offered simple tips to help your children, family, and home be better organized in this Ask the Expert Highlight.
Talk with Family Members Now to Plan a Happy Holiday
Holiday planning will be different this year. Some experts offer suggestions for crafting a merry and healthy celebration for your family.
How Can We Refocus the Holidays This Year?
Q: We need to simplify our holiday celebrations. How can we rethink gift giving and activities this year?
A: Focusing on spending valuable time together can help your family regain some of the magic of the holidays.
Safely Home for the Holidays
Celebrating the holidays will be different for most families this year. Experts suggest making a plan and focusing on the traditions that make this time of year special for your family.
How ADHD Sometimes Gets Worse
Symptoms become more problematic at particular times of life or in particular situations.
Giftedness and ADHD: A Strengths-Based Perspective and Approach
These children experience a tug-of-war depending on the combination of abilities and challenges they display.
Harness Fidgeting to Improve Focus
Turn uncontrolled tapping, leg shaking, kicking, and picking into controlled movements that can lead to increased focus.
When Students Attend IEP Meetings: What Parents Should Know
Students can be invited to their own academic planning meetings under IDEA. So, what should parents do to prepare them to participate?
Webinar: Wait! Help Your Child With ADHD Be Less Impulsive
Impulsivity—taking hasty actions without first thinking about the consequences—is one of the core symptoms of ADHD. There are approaches that can help your child to become more aware and take steps to curb their own impulsivity
Podcast: Transitioning Into Adulthood and Managing Your Own Life
Many teens with ADHD find emerging into adulthood can be stressful, frustrating, and challenging since most of their lives have been supervised by a parent, teacher, or other caregiver. Liam Tolbert speaks with Dr. Eugene Arnold, CHADD’s resident expert, about ADHD healthcare responsibilities young adults need to know, understanding and managing symptoms to help individuals succeed, and overcoming barriers to accessing good healthcare.
ADHD? I Don’t Believe in It!
An occupational therapist shares how listening to nonbelievers can be key to bringing them around.
The Parent As If They Are Younger Myth
What six-year-old wants to be treated like they are three years old?
The Myth of ADHD Overdiagnosis
Incorrect diagnoses may be made sometimes, but a bigger problem is that many people with ADHD are missed.
The Gender Myths (Or, Only Boys Have ADHD)
Overlooked for decades, girls with ADHD look very different from boys with ADHD.
The Attention “Deficit” Myth
When a child has ADHD, much depends on whether an activity is preferred.
ADHD and the Myth of the Bad Parent
Parents of children with ADHD deserve the support of hard science and soft hearts.
New Education Guidelines in Response to COVID-19 Disruptions
The US Department of Education is encouraging schools to provide special education services for children affected by COVID-19 or who have seen their educational plans disrupted during the pandemic.
Toppling the Myths of ADHD
ADHD awareness often includes debunking some of the myths that surround the disorder and its treatment. We address a few of the common misunderstandings.
The Myth of ADHD Overdiagnosis
Incorrect diagnoses may be made sometimes, but a bigger problem is that many people with ADHD are missed.
Embracing ADHD
In honor of ADHD Awareness month, CHADD’s Midwest Regional Center is hosting a free webinar, featuring information on the realities of ADHD, treatment options, educational accommodations, social media use, and CBT for adults.
Tracking Homework Assignments
Customize these practical strategies and tools to meet the needs of your child or teen with ADHD.
Benefits and Risks of Medication Treatment
Researchers are using advanced research design to learn more about medication treatments for ADHD.
Ideas For Medication Cost Savings
Medications can become very costly, very quickly. A children’s ADHD specialist has some tips for saving money on prescriptions.
Webinar Series: Communicating with Your Child’s Teacher
While children with ADHD tend to face several challenges at school, your child’s ADHD doesn’t necessarily have to interfere with their education, performance, or peer relationships. By collaborating with your child’s teachers on their academic achievements, and by helping with homework and studying, you can make your child’s learning experience a gratifying one.
Get That Green Time In!
Time spent outside has health and attention benefits not only in the summer but all through the year.
