Welcome to the attention deficit disorder expert podcast series by Attitude magazine.

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

pleased to have with us today Kathy Cohen who is a licensed social worker

based in Fairfax, Virginia,

who has worked with children, adolescents, adults,

in a variety of settings for over 20 years.

She has developed significant expertise in the area of helping develop social skills with children and training and is the author of several books that you should know about, one of which is called, the main one is called,

Raise Your Child Social IQ, stepping stones to people skills for kids.

She's also written a variety of other parenting information,

discipline, social skills, peace at home, and you can find out about

many of these things on her website, which is W, W, W, in Step, In Step, In Step, in Step, in Step, I N, S, E, T, P,C.com, In Step, In Step I N, S, E P, P, C.com.

Kathy's regular columnist in attitude and we're very happy to have her here today.

So with that, let me turn it overaffey and thank you again for participating.

You're grateful.

Hi everybody.

I'm really happy to be speaking with you today about ADHD children and their social skills.

Children, we found over the years I've been working with kids on social development for since 1990 and I was finding when I was seeing

children one-on-one that they didn't they sort of exhibited a similar set of social issues that were getting in the way of them

being able to make and keep friends. These children sort of had a similar struggle and so we

developed a program specifically geared towards children making and keeping a friend.

Children with high social IQs just naturally have the skills required to make and keep friends.

It's really amazing you've probably seen them in your travels.

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