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Parenting Your Child with ADHD for Career Success
…for their children, but because of unconscious patterns, current pressures, and concern for their children’s well-being, they may have trouble discerning what that is. We should want our children to…
ViewWhat Is School Readiness and Why Is It Important?
…to ignore distractions, control impulsive behaviors, shift their attention between tasks, and respond to competing demands. EFs are special because they can be improved with strategic efforts. And they are…
ViewGrowing College Success from First Semester Failure
…gaming addiction, or substance abuse. College becomes little more than a newer, less structured, and even freer environment for these difficulties to fester even further. For those undiagnosed, ADHD makes…
ViewSmall Talk Is Painful
…a reason to talk. Use chit-chat and questions to find out what they like and are interested in. Spy on other reciprocal conversations to have a model of what staying…
ViewWho’s on Your Child’s Team?
…like ADHD, pose great consternation for the mental health and educational arenas of service because they create disorders mainly of performance rather than of knowledge or skills. Mental health and…
ViewManage Those Big ADHD Emotions at Work
…some ways to still be yourself, but with perhaps a bit of a longer fuse as you deal with the demands at work. The good news is that there are…
ViewCalming Down and Cooling Off
…referred to as emotional dysregulation. For clarification, emotions are physical states whereas feelings are the conscious labels we put on those sensations. For many people the emotion that is most…
ViewRoutines for Times of Uncertainty
…you use a whiteboard or paper planning system, consider using something that is portable. Another option would be to use a physical system (such as a whiteboard) in each location,…
ViewADHD Research News
…because the medication was unavailable. Approximately one half of adults with ADHD have ever used telehealth for ADHD services. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children Ages 5-17 Years: United States, 2020-2022…
ViewADHD in the Classroom: Simple Strategies & Principles
…hand, getting up constantly, and sharpening his pencil too much. In fact, he used up an entire pencil today because he kept sharpening it instead of doing his math worksheet….
ViewHonoring L. Eugene Arnold, MD, MEd
…mental health, and research on ADHD and autism, significantly advancing our understanding and treatment of these conditions. Most recently, he was a professor emeritus at Ohio State University, where he…
ViewAs He Enters Retirement, Russell Barkley Looks Back
…have a better chance at employment once I completed graduate school. I took his advice, went on to Bowling Green State University for my doctoral training, and wound up working…
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