Webinar for Parents: Improving Social Executive Function Skills
Ask The Expert:
Improving
Social Executive Function Skills
A webinar for parents
March 23 | 7 PM EDT
Featuring Ryan Wexelblatt LCSW, ADHD-CCSP
What is often referred to as a difficulty reading social cues by parents and professionals is actually not accurate. When kids with ADHD struggle socially they have lagging social executive function skills.
Ryan Wexelblatt will provide parents with an understanding of how to help build social executive function skills. His aim is to clear up common misunderstandings about social skills in children who have ADHD. It will be helpful to parents of boys and girls, as well as educators and mental health professionals.
Objectives
In this webinar, you will learn to:
• Understand how to help build social executive function skills.
• Recognize common misconceptions people have about social skills in kids with ADHD.
• List ways to help your child when they are struggling with social skills.
Ryan Wexelblatt, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP, is a licensed clinical social worker, school social worker, and father to a son with ADHD. He is the creator of the website ADHD Dude and creates content for parents and kids at the ADHD Dude YouTube channel. Developing and improving social skills is an area of focus for him, especially a methodology for teaching social skills from a male perspective.
This webinar is provided by CHADD’s National Resource Center on ADHD and is supported by Cooperative Agreement Number NU38DD005376 funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).