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

Hey everyone it's Susan Kaufman. I am here with Attitude Magazine's ADHD

experts webinar series. Very interesting topic today. You may know that as many as a quarter of all people with ADHD also have an anxiety disorder

Characterized by very excessive fears and by panic attacks at the same time children with ADHD are 20 times more likely to exhibit some of the signs of autism spectrum disorders as neuro-typ typical children, symptoms such as social delays, communication problems.

And when you're the parent of a child

who has more than one condition, which

is very common with ADHD children,

it can be seriously difficult for parents

to understand what's going on on what's causing a child to

struggle and how specifically to help them given overlapping symptoms and

diagnoses. We are so fortunate to have our speaker Lori Better Perlis. Dr. Perlis is a licensed psychologist

who specializes in the evaluation and the treatment of childhood anxiety and sleep disorders such

as OCD, generalizing anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorders,

and in the evaluation and treatment of individuals of all ages with disorders such as ADHD,

executive functioning challenges, autism spectrum, and related conditions.

Dr. Perlis has degrees from Johns Hopkins and Yeshiva University in New York City and

practices with psychological resource associates in Maryland.

Their website is W.W.P.R.a.

info.com.

Dr. Prois will be offering some specific strategies to help parents of children with multiple diagnoses learn how to differentiate between the symptoms of each one, how to help your child overcome some social hurdles, what behavioral and academic strategies work best for

children with multiple diagnoses and lots more. We are so grateful to our

sponsors. They allow us to present all the information that we present week

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