Dr G's ADHD Chat

We all know the schools are not designed for ADHD brains. They are designed for neurotypical brains. ADHD brains work on interest-based learning. If it catches their interest they learn well. Neurotypicals have...

ADHD children are allowed under the Americans with Disabilities Act to get Accommodations to make the educational environment more fair for them and their ADHD brains. We all know that the school system in the United...

This is the second episode outlining specific strategies to improve academic performance by your ADHD child or, if you’re a an adult with ADHD, these tips apply to you. It’s important to remember that ADHD is more of a...

Last episode we spent a lot of time on 504 plans because that’s one of the first things to consider when getting ready for back to school. Now I want to discuss the actual nuts and bolts, mechanical part of improving...

!Back to School time is upon us and for ADHD parents this can be a time of anxiety and concern. It is also time to prepare for the school year. One of the biggest issues is re-establishing the essential routines and...

We are seeing a trend in this moment in time in which older people are asking for evaluation of posssible ADHD. There is increasing recognition of ADHD and its prevalence in our society. It used to be that my most...

In most of the family structures I’ve worked with, one of the parents also has ADHD (along with the child they brought in for evaluation) and the other parent is a slightly (or strongly) compulsive individual who is...

Not everyone will geek out about this episode but ithis is important to all of us members of the ADHD world- Researchers have discovered 3 distinct biotypes in the ADHD world. They are hugely different from what we have...

In my experience, the most usual family structure is some number of children with ADHD and one parent with ADHD and one neurotypical parent. In my practice, most of the time the neurotypical parent was the Wife and the...

Your ADHD child faces a world that wasn’t designed for him/her. Your ADHDer will find increasing difficulties as the pressure to perform increases as he/she gets older. The key to getting through all the criticism and...

ADHD children frequently have difficulties completing tasks when told to do so. With their difficulties with working memory and executive functioning they frequently forget steps in tasks like getting ready for bed...

While treatment for ADHD, especially medication is seen as one of the most effective treatments in all of psychiatry, a surprising 80% of all patients quit within a year. If it’s such a wonderful and successful...

The thing that ADHD parents in my private practice were most concerned about was their child’s temper tantrums. I agree that these displays of anger were sometimes scary and some parents were thinking their child’s...

<p>Last week we discussed summer as a time of some trials and tribulation when your child could totally fall out of all those patterns of behavior that took so long to establish during the school year.I’ m going to...

<p>Summer causes a lot of questions and difficulties for ADHD parents. Just when you’ve got a routine established with school, now school is ending and you have to establish a new routine. In the next few episodes I’ll...