Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hey everyone, good afternoon. It's Susan Kaufman. I'm here for Attitude

Magazine's weekly ADHD experts webinar series. Welcome. Our topic today is a terrific one, an important one. It's helping children improve their ability to read social cues,

cues like facial expressions, interactions, and how to help children better engage and work with others.

These are such critical skills and such formidable challenges for many children with

attention disorder with autism spectrum disorders and any number of other ancillary conditions.

Our speaker today is an expert in this topic, fascinating one, Anna-Vagan PhD, and she will be talking

about how to use YouTube videos, a great resource for social learning material with your child or any child that you're working with.

How to jumpstart discussions about feelings, how to encourage your child to think about their social behavior, and how to include social learning as part of your family's daily dialogue.

I think this topic is going to be of great value to parents, to teachers, to therapists, or to anyone who works with children to improve their social skills.

A little bit more about Anna Vagan, she has an incredible background over 30 years, experience working with parents, schools, on topics related to

social cognition, especially using media to support social thinking. She's a

speech and language pathologist practices in Marin County, California.

And she is really working with children with diagnosis such as autism and

treatment disorder ADHD, nonverbal learning disabilities,

language disorders, anxiety disorders,

and twice exceptional children as well.

She's a frequent speaker in the US and Canada,

and she's the author of you cue feelings online video

viewing for social learning 2015 let me recommend her website to you it's

W. W. W. social time

dot org and she has many resources there including her

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