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

Good afternoon everyone it's Susan Coffin here for Attitude magazine. We are

extremely pleased to have Jody Sleeper Triplett with us today addressing the

topic of coaching your ADHD teen.

Jody is a certified master coach and one of the original coaches

specialized in youth coaching.

She is the co-founder of the Institute for the

Advancement of ADHD coaches, the author of a number of books on Empowering Youth with

ADHD and she spends a considerable amount of her time these days training other coaches to work with kids with ADHD.

She's a regular columnist for Attitude magazine.

We're fortunate to have her and a contributor to our website.

I want to make sure that you all get the name of her website where

you'll find lots of information on coaching teams. It's JSD coach.com.

So thank you Jody and over to you. Well, welcome everyone.

And I want to just give you a sense of an overview of what I want to talk to you about or get you to think about around coaching your ADHD teen with the

understanding that in this next hour you are not magically going to become coaches,

but you will hopefully get your questions answered and figure out a little

bit of how we can shift your language in order to make it easier for you to start communicating

with your teams.

As you know, so many areas of the brain in this first slide,

there are different places that impact, negatively impact ADHD teams and the

important part is to have an understanding of what's going on in the areas of the brain that are negatively impacting your child's

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