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

Hey everyone, it's Susan Coffin and you are listening to Attitude Magazine's ADHD experts audio.

Our guest speaker today is Dr. Vincent Menastra.

He will be talking about strategies for teaching life skills to children and to teens with ADHD.

He'll specifically talk about skills such as those related to communication, how to teach kids to communicate and connect with their peers and with other adults confidence,

how to help kids master a sport or a skill or an academic area that matters to them and their peers.

Strength, how to help kids stop teasing,

empathy, how to develop your kids natural kindness and appreciation,

organization, devising systems to keep kids organized and working efficiently.

Let me just introduce you to Dr. Master in case you don't know him.

He is the author of a number of very, very highly regarded books on parenting children with ADHD.

One has become a classic. It's called Parenting Children with ADHD 10

Lessons that Medicine Can Teach. It's in its second edition now. And a helpful book for professionals,

if any of you want to share with your children's

pediatricians or other professionals,

something he has a book called,

unlocking the potential of patients with ADHD just for professionals and just published and we're going to hear some of I think I'm guessing the material from his new book which is teaching life skills to children and teens with ADHD. He is a clinical psychologist. He's the

director of the FPI Attention Disorders Clinic at Annecott, New York in upstate New York.

And he, as I said, I think I said, I said, I've seen tens of thousands of children adults at

ADHD he's internationally recognized for his research on the

neurophysiological characteristics of teen children with these with ADHD and

has an interesting focus on both the science and the practical treatment aspects.

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