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If you have ADHD, you’ve probably experienced this: there’s a basket of clean laundry sitting in your room. It’s been there for days, maybe weeks. You know you need to fold it. You’ve walked past it dozens of times. You’ve told yourself “I’ll fold it later” so many times that the phrase has lost all […]

Many of those with ADHD struggle with something called “time blindness.” It is an executive dysfunction where a person struggles to comprehend the passage of time. We have written about time blindness in the past and encourage you to review those articles for more information. Recently, Trevor Noah, the former host of The Daily Show

School refusal is a growing challenge, especially in Long Island where ADHD Training Center’s headquarters is located. We’re finding more and more children not just complaining about school, but refusing to go, with significant emotional and psychological reactions to being there. School refusal is not specifically an ADHD problem, but children with ADHD may have

Often, in media, ADHD is portrayed as “fast talking.” They speak quickly, jump between ideas, or find themselves fishing sentences before others are ready to respond. Many people with ADHD also do talk very quickly, or appear to, and some would even describe themselves that way. But the question of whether ADHD causes fast speech

Raising a child or teen with ADHD can have its own unique challenges, and when you’re a parent of one of these children, it’s not uncommon to find that you’re not necessarily equipped with the knowledge and education needed to understand and support them. For example, we know that children with ADHD can have a

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