A Parent’s ADHD Overview:

11 Strategies for Common Home & School Challenges

@davidnowell David Nowell Seminars

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Upcoming events

• 1/7/15 at 630pm – Clinton public library “A Parent’s ADHD Overview”

• 1/13/15 at 630pm – West Boylston public library “A Parent’s ADHD Overview”

• Spring 2015 (4 Mondays): ADHD 101 for Parents

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Nutrition for better brain function

Work with the brain’s 24-hour chemical cycle

“Green time” and “exercise for focus”

Consider your “team”

• Pediatrician

• Teacher

• Occupational Therapist

• Speech Language Pathologist

• Counselor

• Coaches

• Neuropsychologist

• Parent

Motor and sensory interventions

• Fidget / movement

• Sensory input

Meta-cognition

Knock 3 years off his/her age

Managing homework

easy hard

If It’s Harder than a “3” Find Some Way to Make It Easier

Pomodoro Technique

Launching Pad

Don’t do something for your ADHD teenager which could be performed by

a device or an app

Medications for ADHD