Is College Right for Everyone?

Is College Right for Everyone

High school graduates today have a multitude of choices for their next steps in life. For generations, college provided the best known path to a lucrative career. But things now are less clear. The “great pause” provided by the pandemic created an opportunity to reevaluate career, education, and, for many, this meant rethinking the value…

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Behavior Strategies for Raising Kids with ADHD

Raising Kids with ADHD

Do punishments have little to no effect on challenging behavior with your child? While parents are taught to use punishment to manage unwanted behavior, it doesn’t really work for kids with ADHD, and it’s not the best approach for any child. As with anything, if you want to change it, you must address why it’s…

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An ADHD Book Flood for the Gifting Season

An ADHD Book Flood for the Gifting Season

Many cultures observe feasts and celebrate with gift exchanges toward the end of each year, and through the early days of the following year. In a tradition loosely translated as the “book flood,” families in Iceland exchange new books on the night before a major celebration. Then they enjoy quiet reading time together while sipping…

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Innovations in ADHD Research

Innovations in ADHD Research

The Young Scientist Research Awards is an annual opportunity for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral ADHD researchers to both present and celebrate their accomplishments at the Annual International Conference on ADHD. This year, researchers from universities in seven states, as well as Canada and Malaysia, submitted detailed, high-quality applications exhibiting their participation and leadership in ADHD-centered research.…

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2023 CHADD Awards

2023 CHADD Awards

2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Max Wiznitzer, MD Max Wiznitzer, MD, is a pediatric neurologist and interim chief of pediatric neurology in the neurologic institute at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a professor of pediatrics and neurology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Wiznitzer completed a…

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Checking Homework: Track Assignments with a Single Sign-On

Checking Homework: Track Assignments with a Single Sign-On

PARENT: I’m looking at this app, and it looks like your grades are low. You’re missing a lot of assignments. CHILD: No, that’s not right. I turned everything in. PARENT: But it says you’re missing twelve assignments and you have zeros on all of them. CHILD: Ugh. My teachers are the worst. I did those…

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School-Based Interventions for Adolescents with ADHD

School-Based Interventions for Adolescents with ADHD

This research update reviews two recent studies that investigated the outcomes of school-based programs for youth with ADHD. What are researchers learning about such interventions? The first study examined an intervention delivered by mental health professionals to support youth with ADHD in social and academic functioning, involving individual, group, and parent sessions. Students in the…

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When Someone Shows You Who They Are

When Someone Shows You Who They Are

What makes someone worthy? How do you know if a potential friend is treating you well? What does treating you well look like? People with ADHD often ask these questions, sometimes after looking back on a friendship that went south. The truth is, many people with ADHD are not treated well by friends or acquaintances.…

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Conquer ADHD Sleep Struggles with Support and Accountability

Conquer ADHD Sleep Struggles

ADHD experts report that the majority of individuals with ADHD also experience sleep-related problems. Sleep difficulties can significantly affect the quality of their day-to-day lives. In an effort to address their needs, Melissa Reskof developed the ADHD Sleep Routines Accountability Group. Reskof has a deep understanding of and strong personal interest in the impact sleep-related…

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The Quest for Clinical Practice Guidelines for ADHD in Adults

ADHD is a neurodevelopmental psychiatric condition that occurs in childhood and often persists throughout an individual’s life. While the United States has established diagnostic and treatment guidelines for childhood ADHD (American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics), similar guidance for adults with ADHD remains conspicuously…

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Memories of a Remarkable Parent and Educator: Chris A. Zeigler Dendy

Chris A. Ziegler Dendy 1944–2023 It is with sadness that we share the passing of Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, a longtime CHADD volunteer and cofounder of CHADD’s Teacher to Teacher training program, on July 8, 2023. Inducted into CHADD’s Hall of Fame in 2006, she received CHADD’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. A passionate advocate,…

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Are the Gifts of ADHD a Mirage?

I believe that talking about the “gifts” of ADHD started with physicians and therapists who were uncomfortable telling a child and her parents that she had ADHD. They wanted the diagnosis to be less scary, less awful sounding. They wanted to say something positive so the child and the family would not be downhearted and…

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