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Understanding Your Child's ADHD

Start: January 8, 2025 7:00 pm
End: January 22, 2025 8:30 pm
$20+HST
Zoom

This Program/Event has multiple upcoming sessions:

January 8, 15 & 22nd, 2025

REGISTRATION FULL. New sessions coming this spring. Join the waitlist!

Are you struggling to understand and navigate your child’s new ADHD diagnosis? Do you feel overwhelmed with all the information and unsure what to believe? This three-week introductory program will help you learn what ADHD actually is, and how it can affect your child at home and school. The course aims to teach parents and caregivers the basics of ADHD and strategies to help manage adverse symptoms.

This 3-week program is meant to be a first step for parents with a newly diagnosed child. It will explain the basics of the condition, along with how it may be showing up at home and school. It will provide parents with an opportunity to gain a better understanding of their child, as well as opportunities to share their experiences with other parents.

Topics include: ADHD symptoms, executive functioning, how ADHD affects the family unit, social impairments caused by ADHD, IEPs, strategies to address problematic behaviours

  • Week 1 - Understand what ADHD is and its impairments
  • Week 2 - Understand how ADHD impacts your child and family at home
  • Week 3 – Understanding ADHD at school

Learning Objectives

  • Gain a better understanding of what ADHD is and is not
  • Learn how to implement strategies at home and school to improve daily functioning

Understanding Your Child's ADHD - Winter Session

REGISTRATION FULL. New sessions coming this spring. Join the waitlist!

Begins Wednesday January 8, 2025 - 3 weeks

Date:     January 8, 15 & 22nd, 2025
Time:     4pm PST/ 5pm MST/ 7pm - 8:30pm EST/ 8pm AST

Where:   Virtual on Zoom

Please note that this program is refundable up to 48hrs before the program starts. Once the program begins, registration fee is non-refundable. Thank you for your understanding. 


About the Program Facilitator

Layla is the Resource Navigator at CADDAC. She is committed to supporting individuals and families with ADHD by providing resources and education so they can live their lives without limitations. Layla graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University with a Bachelor of Social Work and will use the knowledge and skills she learned to improve the lives of those struggling with ADHD. She was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and understands the challenges associated with getting a diagnosis and navigating life as an adult with ADHD. Layla is dedicated to using her professional and personal experiences to better the lives of those impacted.

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