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

Welcome everyone, good afternoon. I'm Susan Coffin. I'm here for Attitude

Magazine's weekly ADHD experts broadcast. Today's webinar is interestingly midway through the school year this week I think for many families and it's probably a good time to tune up your strategies for coping with things like this organization impulsivity and any other symptoms of ADHD

that might be causing difficulties at school or at home. I know from our readers

that kids struggle with sensory issues with staying on task and with motor

coordination and all those things

interestingly can fall under the rubric of occupational therapy which you may not

know much about. But we have a great speaker today Kara Kaczynski who is a veteran pediatric

occupational therapist as well as the mother of two children with ADHD and

sensory processing disorder a d d i guess so Kara today is gonna address what occupational therapy is to

mystery to many people and why you might want to consider adding it to your

toolkit in addition to all the other strategies that our families use such as

counseling and tutors

nutrition exercise medication to address their child's symptoms.

Occupational therapy can improve the skills children use just for daily living

and provide tons of confidence to succeed in life.

So some of the topics that Kara will address today include how to break down tasks into

manageable steps, organization strategies that you can teach at home,

some sensory integrations to help focus,

tips for motor coordination difficulties,

lots of more, just ending with something I think really important

how to use a positive mindset and words to help your child take ownership of his or her AED or ADHD.

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