Featuring Ericka L. Wodka, PhD, ABPP-CN

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Are you wondering how ADHD and autism can seem to share some characteristics and yet be very different disorders? Many families have been told their children are affected by both ADHD and autism, but until recently, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders stated that they were exclusive conditions. Now families and individuals are working out what it means for diagnosis and treatment for these conditions to be acknowledged as possibly co-occurring.