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. Our speaker today is renowned

author and expert Dr. Peg Dawson, who will give us an overview on how the teen years present unique challenges to all of us, and especially for parents of teens with ADHD. So Dr Dawson is going to be

providing us a guide to boosting executive functions and building independence in your

team and some of the topics that she'll be talking about today are why specific in your

and adolescents is especially challenging for the student with ADHD or

how we as parents can understand

the developmental tasks of adolescents and what they mean for us as

parents and the parent-child relationship.

How we can stay connected with our teens as they strive to become more independent and how we can protect them as we want to from the risks out there without being intrusive.

And just overall strategies that parents can use to help their teens transition to adulthood successfully,

which is, I think, all of our goal.

Let me introduce you to Peg Dawson,

who has been a popular speaker at Attitude

many times in the past, as well as an author on our website.

She is just a font of practical information.

She is a PhD in education.

She received her doctorate in school and child clinical psychology from the University of Virginia

and has worked with children and young adults for over 30 years. First is a school

psychologist in Maine and New Hampshire and for the last 20 years at the Center for Learning and

Attention Disorders in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she specializes in the

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