CHADD’s Northeast Regional Center Webinar What To Do While You Wait Thursday, October 26 | 7 PM Featuring Emily Edelson, PsyD, and Rebecca Heiden, PhD With long wait times and a shortage of providers, parents and caregivers can be faced with the question of how to help their child with ADHD before they receive professional…

Can including medication in your child’s ADHD treatment plan help him avoid some childhood injuries? Researchers are finding its inclusion can play a significant role in lowering the risk of injuries that could land a child in the emergency room. In addition to reducing common injuries—broken bones and cuts needing stiches—including medication in ADHD treatment…

As the end of ADHD Awareness Month gets closer, we reflect on the many ways we have moved awareness forward. Our messages about ADHD as a health concern and manageable condition reach more people every year. Raising awareness isn’t confined to just one month, though. The journey goes on all year because ADHD is a…

ADHD 365 Podcasts Featuring Ann Dolin, MEd Your child constantly loses homework, misses deadlines, and puts off starting assignments until the last minute. Why does this happen? What can you do to help them develop the skills they need to stay motivated, organized, and on top of assignments? Executive function skills are at the root…

All Things ADHD Podcasts Featuring Lauren Haack, PhD ADHD is found in all communities. For Latinos, cultural norms and barriers to healthcare affect the perception of ADHD symptoms in children. What are some of the cultural barriers to ADHD diagnosis and treatment? How can cultural beliefs affect treatment for ADHD? Dr. Lauren Haack discusses common…

Midwest CHADD Regional Center Webinar: Video Games and ADHD: Harmful or Helpful? Featuring Randy Kulman, PhD Randy Kulman, PhD, explores how kids with ADHD are affected by their video game play. He examines how and why video games can become overly engaging for children who have ADHD yet at the same time present opportunities for…

“Stress always makes my ADHD symptoms worse and to top it off, when my ADHD isn’t under control, that creates more stress,” someone shared on a popular online ADHD forum not too long ago. Several other members chimed in with their similar experiences. “My symptoms are really made worse by stress,” another writer said. A…

October is ADHD Awareness Month. CHADD is working with partners in the ADHD Awareness Month Coalition to educate people on the facts of ADHD—symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment—and to move the conversation on ADHD forward from the basics to the successes of those living with the condition. Why is ADHD awareness important? Comprised of CHADD, the…

Midwest CHADD Regional Center Webinar: Improving Executive Function Skills Wednesday, September 27 | 8 PM ET Featuring Brandon Slade Brandon Slade, CEO of Untapped Learning, will discuss executive function and how to develop better skills to complete tasks and reach your goals.  

Ask the ADHD Helpline: A friend recently told me that he knows someone who had to go to court-ordered traffic school because she was convicted of driving under the influence after she told the police officer she was taking ADHD medication at the time of her traffic stop. She and I take the same medication…

All Things ADHD Podcasts Featuring Jeffrey Katz, PhD   Children with ADHD need accommodations that are customized to their specific needs so they may have the best experience during their school life and the support they need to learn. Jeffrey Katz, PhD, talks about comorbid learning disabilities, the difference between a Section 504 plan and…

ADHD365 Podcasts Featuring Kathleen Nadeau, PhD   While most of the available information about ADHD deals with how it affects children and teenagers, we know it is a lifelong condition. How does ADHD affect people who are age fifty and older? Why are diagnoses increasing in this age group? What special challenges do they face,…