How can I best parent my ADHD child?
What kids with ADHD need most is a parent who understands the way their brain works and accepts for their complexity, and believes in their strengths and possibilities.
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ADHD affects the whole family, creating challenges with parenting, communication, and finding the right treatment options.
What kids with ADHD need most is a parent who understands the way their brain works and accepts for their complexity, and believes in their strengths and possibilities.
Parents with ADHD are likely to carry a high load of ADHD-related variants in their genes, and they are more likely than parents without ADHD to pass some of them on to their children.
Recognizing attention issues as disability enables fair, evidence-based supports to show learning.
A comprehensive plan should include a full explanation of the condition and the available treatments in understandable terms.
FACT: Boys are diagnosed two to three times as often as girls, but about 4.2% of girls have received a diagnosis of ADHD at some point in their life.
Fact: While some children may recover from their disorder by age 21 or 27, the full disorder or at least significant symptoms and impairments persist in 50-86% of cases. Russell A. Barkley, PhD In the 1970s, when I first came into my profession (clinical child neuropsychology), it had been commonplace to view ADHD, or its … Read more