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Ten Key Facts Everyone Must Know about ADHD; ADHD, Executive Function, and School Success an Finding the Joy: Closing on a Note of Hope!

Presented by Chris Zeigler Dendy, M.S.

Objectives

  1. Participants will review 10 key facts about ADHD and explain how at least five of them impact learning and/or treatment.
  2. Participants will state at least two new facts that they learned or state two facts that they think are critical for parents, teachers, or treatment professionals to know.
  3. Participants will identify at least three of the five key components of executive function that influence learning.
  4. Participants will be able to suggest intervention strategies to address executive function deficits.

This session will focus on 10 Key Facts about ADHD that both parents ad professionals must know, including critical less well-known facts. Several key issues will be addressed: executive function deficits, working memory deficits, the impaired sense of time, the role of neurotransmitters, common co-existing conditions, and monitoring medication to ensure effectiveness. Clearly executive function has emerged as a key factor influencing school success or failure for students with ADHD. Parents, teachers, and professionals and the students themselves must understand the impact of executive function deficits on behavior and academic performance.

Chris Dendy, M.S.

Chris is an author, former educator, school psychologist and children's mental health professional with over 35 years of experience. She is also the mother of two grown sons and a daughter who ADHD. Her highly acclaimed books include: Teenagers with ADD (80,000+), Teaching Teens with ADD and ADHD, and A Bird's-Eye View of Life with ADD and ADHD, a teen survival guide she co-authored with her son Alex. Cherish the Children, their publishing company, has also produced two videos: Teen to Teen the ADD Experience and Father to Father. Ms. Dendy earned an MS from FSU on the NIMH fellowship. She also served on the national CHADD (2001-2005) and ADDA-SR boards, chaired her local mental health board, plus was co-founder and clinical advisor for Gwinnett, Georgia CHADD. She presents nationally and internationally on ADHD and executive function.

P.O. Box 189
Cedar Bluff, Alabama 35959
256-779-2252

chris@chrisdendy.com
www.chrisdendy.com







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