Ask The Expert Highlight All in a Row: Getting Your Kids with ADHD Organized         Featuring Holly Hitchcock Graff CPO, PCC 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…

This past year has been challenging for all of us in so many ways. For those of us with diagnosed or undiagnosed ADHD, it has been especially challenging. You might not know it, but the fidgety woman standing next to you in line at the grocery store, the little boy in the classroom who raises…

Have you ever gotten so angry after another driver cut you off that it’s all you think about rest of the day? Or did a coworker ignore you at a staff meeting, leaving you worried that you had somehow offended them? Maybe your spouse’s loud chewing agitates you so that you feel you could fly…

The first week of December is when most people starting to feel the pressure of the holiday season—or start hoping to avoid it. The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day are busy. Having ADHD can complicate your seasonal planning. “The holidays are filled with both joy and stress,” says Ellen Braaten, PhD. Sixty-two percent…

Ask The Expert: Wait! Help Your Child With ADHD Be Less Impulsive December 1 | 2 PM EST Kimberly Harrison, PhD Impulsivity—taking hasty actions without first thinking about the consequences—is one of the core symptoms of ADHD. Your child may do or say things without thinking and end up rejected by peers and scolded often…

Many families meet with their children’s school or education teams at this point in the fall semester. Often they need to discuss a new or updated education plan, as a student’s needs change from year to year. And this year, with many students newly returned to campus after a school year learning from home, many…

Social media influencers are creating new ways to de-stigmatize ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions. These influencers take on a positive role in raising ADHD awareness by sharing their personal experiences of living with ADHD. “The rise of the social web, and the internet, in general, has given more people an opportunity to become influencers, sometimes…

Featuring L. Eugene Arnold, MD, MEd, and Liam Tolbert Are you a parent of a teen or a teenager who’s transitioning into adulthood? Well, this episode of the All Things ADHD podcast is for you. We gave this podcast over to guest host Liam Tolbert, a teenager who is managing ADHD and learning to be…

Many parents whose young adult children are either attending college or university or have moved to their own homes—maybe even to different cities or states—are anticipating their return, if only for a few days, in the next few months. For many families, this is exciting, but in some families strained communication can make these get-togethers…

The largest gathering of the world ADHD community will come together for the 2021 Virtual International Conference on ADHD, starting today, November 4, and continuing until Saturday, November 6. The annual conference is hosted by CHADD, along with partners ADDA (Attention Deficit Disorder Association) and ACO (ADHD Coaches Organization), and features ADHD-focused science, education, and…

Featuring Carol Ann Robbins, PhD For many women with ADHD, especially those who don’t have a diagnosis or whose ADHD is untreated, midlife presents struggles made more complicated by the hormonal changes they experience during this stage of life. They often have the greatest demands on their time and energy and end up feeling overwhelmed,…

Parents and educators have a new tool to help develop and put in place individualized education programs while taking the current COVID-19 pandemic into consideration. The US Department of Education issued a “Return to School Roadmap” designed to help education teams develop individualized education programs (IEPs) during the pandemic and a return to in-school learning.…