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ADHD Experts Podcast

189- Best Behavior: Classroom Strategies for Students with ADHD

ADHD Experts Podcast

ADDitude

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Education specialist Shari Gent, M.S., NCED, shares parent-teacher guidelines for managing ADHD behavior at school, such as trouble handling transitions, interrupting, losing focus (and distracting others in the class), and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:12.0

Welcome everyone to Attitude Magazine's weekly ADHD experts

0:16.2

webinar broadcast. Today we'll be talking about strategies for better

0:20.0

behavior in the classroom, the elementary and middle school classroom primarily for children with attention deficit disorder and other executive function disorders.

0:27.6

I'm super pleased to welcome back Sharon Ghent, who's an educational specialist and trainer from Fremont, California.

0:34.0

Sherry was with the California Department of Education until very recently.

0:38.0

She's a frequent presenter around the country at conferences for teachers and parents

0:42.0

as well as an advisor to Chad, the National

0:44.4

Organization for Attention and Deficit Disorder.

0:46.8

So we're very pleased to have her today.

0:49.3

She will be talking about why traditional behavior strategies often fail with children with attention deficit disorder,

0:55.6

and she'll present some practical strategies from proven classroom behavior, especially for teachers,

1:01.2

but also giving parents who are listening in strategies that they can use as well.

1:05.0

I would also like to extend a big thank you to our the sponsor of this week's webinar

1:09.7

play attention.

1:10.7

They are a brain training system really the only one that combines both neurofeedback with cognitive behavior training and with the goal of improving attention, behavior, and learning skills for both children and adults with ADHD.

1:23.7

Play attention is available for both home and professional use and

1:27.2

visit the play attention website. It's

1:29.9

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1:33.0

Thank you, play attention.

1:35.0

We're so grateful to our sponsors.

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