Discovering Your ADHD Child
This course offers an introduction to ADHD from a neurodevelopmental standpoint, myths and misconceptions, and how that affects your child. It covers the basics of what executive function skills are and ways to work to improve them.
The lessons include information to support your child, including helpful tools, nutrition and sleep supports, how to handle peer and sibling relationships, and supports for school.
We also go over how to talk to different audiences about ADHD, including talking to your own child.
Each lesson includes downloadable bonus content including visual schedule packets, incentive and reward charts, how to identify strengths for strengths-based support, IEP / 504 meeting packets, and more!
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Discovering Your ADHD Child
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What Is ADHD?
This lesson offers an introduction to ADHD from a neurodevelopmental standpoint, myths and misconceptions, and how that affects your child. It covers the basics of what executive function skills are and ways to work to improve them. We also discuss how to talk about ADHD with your child, along with others in the community to dispel myths of misbehavior and provide greater support.
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Tools to Help Your ADHD Child
In this lesson, you will learn tools and strategies you can use to help your child, why they work, and easy ways to incorporate them into your routines. We provide you with visual schedule and reward ideas and templates, tools to support executive functioning skills, and ideas to make the tools meaningful for your child through play.
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Sleep and Nutrition
This lesson covers the importance of sleep, why sleep is more challenging for your ADHD child, ways to support sleep hygiene and routines to promote improved sleep. We will provide ideas for sensory strategies to support sleep and trouble shoot sleep challenges. We will also provide strategies for challenges that arise in the mornings.
We will also discuss ideal nutrition for ADHD brains, meal planning, common mealtime struggles and solutions to try.
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Sibling and Peer Relationships
In this lesson, we go over social skills by age and ways to help develop them. We also discuss emotional regulation tools and support, and conflict resolution strategies to implement with your child. We also discuss ways to support all of your children, regardless of neurodiversity or diagnoses.
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School Supports, IEPs, and 504s
This lesson covers before and after school routines to help your child be success at school and with homework, how to support executive functions and learning at home and school through multi-sensory learning, and IEP and 504 information. We also provide a support packet for IEP and 504 meetings.
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