ADHD Weekly, September 2, 2021

CHADD Webinars: Communicating with Your Child’s Teacher
Two-Part Series for Parents

Sept. 17 & Sept.24

3 PM, EDT | Featuring Linda Karanzalis, MS

Session 1: Let Me Introduce You to My Child, Friday, Sept. 17, 3 PM, EDT

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.

Linda Karanzalis will provide you with ways to introduce your child to their teacher at the beginning of the school year. She will provide you with 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 for your child, and how to solicit and incorporate teacher’s ideas that have worked for other students.

Session 2: Supporting Your Child at School, Friday, Sept. 24, 3 PM, EDT

Asking how you can help shows that you want to partner with the teacher to make sure everybody has a good year. It can make teachers feel supported and reassure them that you’re available for further communication. Teachers who feel supported may be more likely to reach out to you before a problem becomes large and unmanageable. You can stay in touch by phone or email.

Ms. Karanzalis will provide you with the best ways to communicate effectively with your child’s teacher throughout the school year to ensure the child receives the supports and structures needed for success.

Linda Karanzalis, MS, is a former special education classroom teacher with more than 25 years of experience in the areas of learning disabilities, ADHD, social-emotional learning, social skills training, and behavior management. As a pioneer in the field, she began to break the barriers and forge the way for students of all ages by establishing ADDvantages Learning Center in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, in 1997.

 

 

 

 

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