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This week is “OCD Awareness Week.” It is a time when we, as a society, try to bring more attention to obsessive compulsive disorder and its symptoms, helping others truly understand what OCD is, how it works, what it means, and more. At ADHD Training Center, we like to bring awareness to conditions that have […]

Children with ADHD often have active minds and bodies. School can be a challenge, because it requires extended focus that can be difficult for a child to sit through. After school, then, becomes a time where they can get rid of some of that excess energy, have fun, and engage in activities that help them

Many students have started college again or will be heading there soon, and there is little denying that this is a challenging time. College is a major life transition, one of the biggest we make in our lives – especially if we’re also living outside of the home for the very first time. College can

Those with ADHD may struggle with focus sometimes, but when something captures their attention, they can have the opposite problem: hyperfocus. When a person with ADHD is stimulated, it becomes very hard for them to do anything else. Because many people with ADHD also struggle with time blindness, they may find that hours pass them

Part of truly understanding ADHD is gaining more knowledge not only of the clinical symptoms of ADHD, like trouble focusing, but also the way that these issues manifest in a person’s day to day life. It’s one thing to know that a child with ADHD can have difficulty concentrating, but it is quite another to

If it seems like more parents are signing their kids up for after school activities, it is because they are. Parents now feel like the absolutely have to sign their kids up to do basketball, dance, tutoring, and any number of other after school activities to occupy their children’s time. Is this a good thing

ADHD is complicated. As much as people like to casually diagnose ADHD themselves, the truth is that ADHD is something that typically only professionals can diagnose because what people call ADHD can just be normal childhood attention issues, lack of sleep, anxiety, or something else. For treatment to ADHD to work, the child has to

Much of the focus on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is on the attention and impulsivity issues. It is only recently when more and more parents and caregivers have started to learn about how ADHD can manifest, including not only bigger challenges like academic success, but also smaller, day to day interactions. For example, we’ve spoken in

Part of understanding neurodivergent individuals, including those with ADHD, is recognizing that the way that we view and understand behaviors are sometimes different than the way we typically assess and respond to neurotypical behaviors. We’ve discussed this a few times on this blog, with posts that are worth reading if you haven’t yet, such as:

Part of parenting a child with ADHD is truly recognizing that, while children with ADHD are amazing and bring so much creativity and life to the world, being “neurotypical” does mean that we have to rethink how we view development, growth, and more. There has been some discussion in the past that children with ADHD