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          • Misdiagnosing ADHD in Black Kids
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          • A Plant Extract to Treat ADHD
          • Exercise: Good Medicine for ADHD
          • Girls with ADHD Face Unique Challenges
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          • ADHD: Who Can Make the Diagnosis?
          • ADHD: A Family Affair
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          • ADHD Coaching: Can It Work for Your Child?
          • Beyond Medication: Evidence-Based ADHD Care
          • Kids with ADHD: Finding the Leader Within
          • Dr. Amen’s 7 Types of ADHD
          • Increasing the Odds of Success for Your Child with ADHD
          • Straight Talk About Medications for ADHD
          • Is ADHD Your Child’s Only Problem?
          • Untreated ADHD: Lifelong Risks
          • Comprehensive Treatment for ADHD
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          • Help the School Help Your Child with NLD
          • 14 Ways to Help a Child with NLD Succeed
          • Strategies for Parenting a Child with NLD
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          • Teens and Executive Function Skills
          • Time Management 101
          • Working Memory: The Hidden Ingredient in Learning
          • Improving Executive Skills
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          • Social Emotional Skill Building
          • Forging Connections in Quarantine
          • COVID-19: Work on Social Skills
          • Improving Social Skillfulness
          • Cyberbullying: Parents Beware
          • Bullying: Kids with LD Are Easy Targets
          • Promote Social Skills: Step Away From the Screen
          • Healthy Friendships for LD Girls
          • 8 Ways to Deal with Hurtful Cliques
          • Is Your Child Having Social-Adjustment Problems?
          • Social Skills Building Blocks
      • Raising Independent Kids
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          • What’s the Best School for Your Child?
          • Dealing with Academic Setbacks
          • Break the Enabling Cycle
          • Get Ready for a New School Year
          • Strategies to Keep It Positive
          • Promoting Responsibility
          • Turning “I Can’t” into “I Can”
          • 10 Tips for Back-to-School Prep
          • Making Music Benefits the LD Brain
          • Prioritize Relationships Over Schoolwork
          • Collaboration Is Not “Enabling”
          • Behavior Chart Dos and Don’ts
          • Focus On the Positives
          • A New School Year Like None Other
          • The Father Factor
          • Kids to Kids: Explaining ADHD
          • This Year Will Be Better!
          • Finding the Perfect Career Path
          • Mentoring for Students with LD
          • When College Is Not the Next Step
          • Summertime: Exploring Interests
          • 2E Kids: What’s the Best School?
          • Does Your Child Have Grit?
          • 10 Strategies for Managing Digital Devices
          • Is a Small Boarding School Right for Your Child?
          • How to Build Your Child’s Strengths
          • Fostering Resiliency at School
          • Learn Your Child’s Learning Style
          • Strategies for Raising Independent Kids
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          • Self-Advocacy: Strategies for All Ages
          • Time Management for Kids with LD
          • Dear Camp Director…
          • Summer Camp Guidelines for Kids with LD & ADHD
          • The Power of Positive Communication
          • High Alert: It’s A New School Year
          • Life Skills That Make a Difference
          • 5 Keys to Help Kids Achieve Success
          • 7-Point Plan to End Procrastination
          • Educating Your Child About LD
      • Tech Smarts
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          • Is Social Media Harming Your Child?
          • The Unhealthy Toll of 24-7 Disaster News
          • To Spy or Not to Spy?
          • Alexa, Where Are Your Manners?
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          • Kids & COVID Disruptions
          • Is This Behavior Related to ADHD or OCD?
          • Is It ADHD, OCD, or Both?
          • Understanding OCD
          • Anxiety: 3 Tips to Take Control
          • ADHD: Teen Boys & Self-Control
          • Sensory Strategies for Home
          • Does My Child Need Therapy?
          • Managing Strong Emotions in Kids
          • COVID 19: What to Watch For
          • COVID-19: Managing Child Anxiety
          • Dealing with Math Anxiety
          • Is Your Child Depressed?
          • Anxiety Problems: Signs & Symptoms
          • DBT May Help Regulate Emotions
          • Ross Greene on Challenging Behavior
          • School Suspension for ADHD?
          • PCIT: Can It Work for Your Child?
          • Help Your Child Manage Anxiety
          • Talk Back to Worry
          • Hooked on Digital Devices
          • The Stigmatized Child
          • Anxiety, Depression & LD
          • Understanding Your Teen
          • Tools to Manage Stress
          • Surviving the Teen Years
          • Stress and the LD Puzzle
          • Your Child: A Day in His Life
          • Living with Sensory Processing Disorder
          • Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Children Learn If They Can
          • Is CBT Right For Your Child?
          • Mindfulness for Kids with LD
          • Performance Anxiety: High Schoolers Under Pressure
          • Is Your Child Depressed?
          • Interview: Ross Greene Talks About Explosive Kids
          • Helping A Child with Anxiety
          • Functional Behavioral Assessment: Diagnosing Behavior Problems
      • Knowing Your Child’s Rights
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          • Your Guide to State Complaints
          • School Discipline: Your Child’s Rights
          • Make the Case for Section 504
          • Determining Placement for Your Child with LD
          • FERPA: The Right to Review Records
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          • What Is “Prior Written Notice”?
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          • Your Child’s Rights: Addressing Behavior Problems
          • Transition Planning for College
          • Private Schools and IDEA
          • Resolving Special Ed Disputes
          • What Is An “Appropriate” Education?
          • IDEA and the IEP Process
          • Understanding Section 504
          • Your Child’s Rights: 6 Principles of IDEA
      • The ABCs of IEPs
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          • IEPs: 5 Mistakes Parents Make
          • Handling IEP Disagreements
          • New School Year: Meet the Teacher
          • Advocacy 101: What Do Advocates Do?
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          • After the IEP Meeting
          • How to Speak IEP
          • Meet Your School Psychologist
          • Essential Elements of an IEP
          • IEP Meeting: Business As Usual
          • Extended Time: Useful or Misused?
          • IEP Meeting: Managing Conflict
          • Make Room for Talents & Interests
          • 6 Keys to Winning Over Your Child’s Team
          • Look Back to Prepare for the IEP
          • Is This Reading Intervention Right for My Child?
          • Progress Monitoring of Kids with LD
          • Before the IEP Meeting: 6 Tips for Parents
          • The IEP: A Primer for Parents New to the Process
          • Put Social Skills in the IEP
          • Examples of Accommodations & Modifications
          • IEP Planning: Accommodations & Modifications
          • From Evaluation to IEP
          • Who Should Be On Your Child’s IEP Team?
          • Tips for Writing an IEP
      • College Bound
        • Articles

          • Accessing Support in College
          • Finding the “Best-Fit” College
          • College Bound? Focus on Readiness
          • CV-19: Time for a College Essay?
          • College Bound: Prepare Ahead
          • Demystifying the College Application Process for Kids with LD and ADHD
          • College Bound: SAT or ACT?
          • Students with LD: Preparing for the SAT or ACT
          • Financial Aid for College Students with LD
          • Students with LD: Strategies for College Success
          • Getting On—And Staying On—the College Track
          • College Transfer Guide for Students with LD
          • Is a PG Year Right for Your Child?
          • College Search: Services vs. Needs
          • College 101: Freshman Smarts
          • Are College Consultants Worth It?
          • Section 504 for College Students
          • The College Interview
          • Applying to College: Use the Essay
          • Keys to College Success
          • Online Degrees: Pros and Cons
          • Managing Anxiety in College
          • Why College Is Daunting for LD Students
          • Academic Planner: Must-Have Tool for College
          • Study Like A College Student
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      • Parent to Parent
        • Articles

          • Teen Driver: The End of An Era
          • Will My Child Succeed in Life?
          • Walking in My Son’s ADHD Shoes
          • Siblings: The Lifelong Bond
          • Sink or Swim? A Parent’s Dilemma
          • Am I Alone in This?
          • College: What’s the Right Fit?
          • Academic Underachievement
          • 10 Things I Wish I’d Known About LD
          • Talking About Sex
          • Gifted & ADHD: A Fine Balance
          • Homeschooling: What to Consider
          • Looking Back at the Year
          • Monitor the Classroom Experience
          • First Aid Tips for Parents
          • Worrying About Your Other Children
          • Leaving Special Ed Behind
          • Setting Our Kids Up for Success
          • Coming to Grips with LD
          • Never Stop Believing
          • Can You See Your Child’s Future?
          • Anne Ford Shares Her Insights and Experience
          • Coming to Grips with An LD Diagnosis
          • A Parent Becomes A Practitioner for Her Child with LD
          • Dyslexia and the Foreign Language Requirement
          • The 5 Commandments for Parenting Children with LD
          • A Cautionary Tale: When Symptoms Are Misleading
          • Did We Make the Right Decision for Our Son with LD?
          • Coming To Terms with My Child’s LD
          • Siblings: A Mother’s Advice
      • Through My Eyes
        • Articles

          • The Damaging Myth of Normalcy
          • Aja Capel: Teen with a Mission
          • Aja Capel: Different Is Amazing
          • Getting to Know My Brain
          • Mystifying
          • Big-Time Transition to the Big 10
          • Normal Is Overrated
          • Striving for Diving
          • Challenge Me!
          • Accepting Myself—LD and All
          • School Life: A Kid’s Eye View
          • A Friend Like Hannah
          • The Gift of Failure
          • A Passion for Flying
          • Glimpsing the Future: Life with Dyslexia
          • Paying It Forward
          • No Apologies, No Excuses
          • The Experiences of ADHD in Childhood: “I Have Always Felt Different”
          • The Damaging Myth of Normalcy
          • Jonathan Mooney: Still Telling It Like It Is
      • Success Profiles
        • Articles

          • Shawn A.Robinson: Dr. Dyslexia Dude
          • George Church: Father of Genomics
          • John Hoke: Nike’s Design Leader
          • Grace Taskinsoy: LD Advocate
          • Dannel Malloy: Education Champion
          • 2013 Youth Achievement Awards
          • Ryan Haggerty: 2011 Youth Achievement Award Winner
          • Melissa Rey: 2010 Youth Achievement Award Winner
          • Jaclyn Noble: Future CEO
          • Michael T. Sullivan: Social Justice Advocate
          • Jesse Kline: ZOOming to the Top
          • John Muir Laws: Nature Freak
          • Jeff Franklin: Science Guy
          • Simon Pearce: Artisan Extraordinaire
          • Evan Paul: Game Boy
          • David Faile: Master of the Skies
          • 2014 Fred J. Epstein Youth Achievement Award Honorees
          • Ben Foss: Changing the Conversation About Dyslexia
          • Dr. Lisa Rappaport: Fulfilling A Dream
      • Ask The Experts
        • Articles

          • How To Deal with Unresponsive Teachers
          • EF Coach? I Say Yes. She Says No
          • IQ Changes: Which Scores Matter?
          • Tips: Studying for Finals
          • A Child’s Right to a Parapro
          • Could My Child Also Have NLD?
          • How to Find an ADHD College Coach
          • Managing the Online Workload
          • Is It Time for a Re-evaluation?
          • Manage WFH & Corona-Schooling
          • When Schools Fail to Follow an IEP
          • LD Services: Is IQ a Disqualifier?
          • School Denies Evaluation Request
          • Is My Child Twice Exceptional?
          • Team Meetings: Stay Positive
          • Anxiety in the Age of Gun Violence
          • The Impact of LD on Siblings
          • Taming the Homework Monster
          • Encouraging the Reluctant Reader
          • LD & Asperger’s: Key Differences?
          • “LD” Label: Pros & Cons
          • Find Your Child’s Strengths and Interests
          • Reading Levels: What Do They Tell You?
          • IEP Challenges: Smart with Behavior Issues
          • Placing a High Achiever with ADHD
          • Nothing Helps! What Can I Do?
          • Is it Ok to Postpone a Reevaluation?
          • ADHD & Brain Differences
          • New Challenges for Kids with ADHD
          • LD Is a Family Affair
          • Audio E-Book Options
          • Helping Kids with Processing Issues
          • Handling Disputes with the School
          • Are SLD and Dyslexia the Same Diagnosis?
          • Learning to Manage Time Better
          • Your Rights to Documentation
          • Strengths, Talents & Dyslexia
          • ADHD: Is There a Silver Lining?
          • Make Learning Math Fun
          • Is it Time For a New School?
          • Does My Child Have APD?
          • ADHD Meds: Risk of Abuse?
          • Help Getting Organized
          • Is It Time for a Full Workup?
          • The Impact of LD on Partners
          • Getting School Help for NLD Kids
          • Dyslexia: Reading Program Basics
          • Teasing Apart Learning Problems
          • Accommodations & College Acceptance
          • How to Initiate an Evaluation
      • Share Your Story
        • Articles

          • Allison Quirion: The Accidental Community Organizer

Tag: ADHD

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