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26/06/2017 - CADDAC National Director

Helping Your Child with ADHD When You Also Have ADHD

I often chat with parents who ask me how they can be expected to organize their child with executive functioning impairments when they have the same issues. If this is something that you struggle with, or find it challenging to calm tempers and put hou

21/06/2017 - CADDAC National Director

Australian School Systems Fail Students with ADHD

It was with great interest that I reviewed an Australian study looking at academic achievement in students with ADHD during the period from childhood to adolescence. Having spent the last twenty years speaking with researchers, parents, educators, scho

14/06/2017 - CADDAC National Director

A Message from a Daughter to her Mom Who Sought Treatment for Her ADHD

Over the past 25 years I have spoken to tens of thousands of parents struggling with the question of whether to give their child medication to treat their ADHD. In all that time I have never come across one parent who was thrilled at the thought of med

12/06/2017 - CADDAC National Director

ADHD and Screen Time – What the Experts Say

Children with neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD have been excluded from general guidelines on screen use by the Canadian Pediatric Society because children with these disorders are at greater risk for internet addiction. Dr. Umesh Jain, a Child an

06/06/2017 - CADDAC National Director

Teens With ADHD More Likely to Become Parents

A large Danish study found that teens with ADHD were at least twice as likely as their peers without ADHD to become parents and have more children by the age of 25. Early teen years were especially concerning since girls with ADHD were three and a half

29/05/2017 - CADDAC National Director

ADHD in the Workplace and Time Management

This brief article geared to employers and managers makes some interesting points on ADHD in the workplace that are just as useful for employees. The first being, an employee with ADHD can have considerable talents along with their ADHD which will make