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

Hey everyone is

it's Susan Coffin and you are listening to Attitude magazine's

ADHD experts audio. Our expert talk is about language processing

deficits in children with ADHD and we are very fortunate to have

Dr. Gail Richard with us who is an expert in this topic.

A very significant percentage of children with ADHD have difficulty

retaining and interpreting language correctly. I think Dr Richard

told me that as many as 25% of children with ADHD have language processing disabilities and even more have other language-based learning disabilities.

So for many children with ADHD, this is a language processing disorder that might be impairing their ability to

attach meaning to verbal input and to formulate appropriate responses.

Today Dr. Ritchie will explain to us the common language processing challenges and provide

suggestions for developing stronger skills and facilitating processing at home

and at school. She'll talk to us about such topics as how to differentiate

language processing deficits from auditory

processing challenges and from ADHD symptoms. They're oftentimes diagnostically confused.

I know from my own experience some of the common signs of language processing deficits in children, how they affect children's social skills, a real challenge for children with ADHD, how you can go about getting a thorough and an accurate diagnosis, and she'll give us some

tips and strategies for addressing language processing challenges at home.

Let me introduce Gail Richard briefly. She is a PhD and an emeritus professor at Eastern Illinois University

where she specializes in Childhood Development Language Disorders. She is the author of over 10 books. I'd love to have her name

some of those books in a second and she's given well over 500 presentations at

academic meetings around the country. She's a fellow of the American Speech and Language

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