Distance learning is not ideal for all students with ADHD. Surviving the coming school year will mean reducing anxiety and tension at home while also maintaining realistic expectations, providing appropriate supports, and advocating for our children with eyes wide open. Click logo below to read more.
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The Enrollment Management Association: The Big Pivot: Preparing Your Community for an Unusual Back-to-School Transition
This has certainly been the strangest of times. The combination of changes wrought by COVID-19 and socio-political protests have disrupted life for students, families, and school communities across the world. Canceled summer programs, internships, jobs, and vacations intensified everybody’s disappointment, frustration, and worry. It’s tough to think about next week, let alone the beginning of the next academic year. Click logo below to read more.
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22 News Mass Appeal: Understanding and managing the anxiety of returning to school
(Mass Appeal) – These are anxious times for kids and adults as the school year restarts. But it’s important to remember that children absorb how adults act in different situations and feed off those emotions and actions. Dr. Sharon Saline is here today with some ways to speak with your little ones to reduce the anxiety of the times. Click logo below to read more.
22 News Mass Appeal: Back to School Week: Start The New School Year With The Right Study Habits
22 News Mass Appeal: Reducing Anxiety by Shifting From Worry to Wonder
(Mass Appeal) – Look at how much worrying you’ve done over the past few months. Imagine in the future you took all the time you would’ve spent worrying and shifted that to be more inquisitive by wondering in a positive way? Dr. Sharon Saline explains how this simple change can have an enormous effect on your personal well being. Click logo below to read more.
Additude Mag: From Screen Time to Safe Socializing: The Summer 2020 Guide for ADHD Families
Summer safety during a pandemic means activities that are socially distant yet still fun and collaborative for kids with ADHD. Use these strategies to better communicate with your child, devise activities for the whole family, and make the most of this weird summer. Click the logo below to read the article.
22 News Mass Appeal: Clever ways to pack in more fun with the kids before summer ends
Bare Slate: Living With ADHD At School, At Work & At Home with Dr. Sharon Saline PsyD
Today we are joined by Dr. Sharon Saline, PsyD to talk about individuals living with ADHD at school, at work and at home. Grab her book here: https://amzn.to/3ftWiu6 It may surprise you to learn that adults can be diagnosed with ADHD (which can present itself at work and in business) and that not all forms of ADHD present or behave in the same way. Dr. Saline brings us through the different types of ADHD and discusses what you can do to help make work, school and home a lot more enjoyable (for everyone!). Click the logo below to watch.
ADDitude Mag: ADHD Fatigue – What It Looks Like, How to Motivate
Q: “The triple whammy of the pandemic, the economy, and now the protests is exhausting. Is it normal for my focus and productivity to decrease because of all this? Some days I feel overwhelmed and hopeless.” A: Let’s not beat around the bush; it is overwhelming and it is a lot for us to bear. Many, many people are feeling overwhelmed and exhausted now. Zoom exhaustion is a real thing. You have to pay more attention when you work online because you have to focus harder on fewer visual cues to read what is going on with the other person. Click logo below to read more.