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

Hey everyone, good afternoon. I'm Susan Kaufman. I'm here for Attitude Magazine's

weekly ADHD experts broadcast. It's back to school for many of our families this week and

today we're talking with

Susan Yellen an attorney and pediatrician Paul Yellen who are directors at the

Yellen Institute for Mind, Brain and Education here in New York. We are going to be

talking today about how to build an effective

504 plan or an IEP plan with very specific interventions that will address

your child's specific challenges.

As you probably know, IEPs in 5 and 4s can include a huge variety of services from

modified curriculum, related speech and language, occupational therapy, and so forth, just for

examples.

So what we'll be talking about today

is how to work with your IEP or 504 team

to craft some thoughtful proven strategies

that'll both demonstrate what your child does know and

work to improve their areas of challenge. Let me introduce Susan and Paul

Yellen to you. They have been wonderful advocates and helpers at Attitude magazine, a regular

columnist on educational issues for us. We are very grateful for their time.

Susan is an attorney as I said and she is the author of the book Life After High School, a guide for students with disabilities and their families. And Dr Paul Jellen, who is the director of the Jellen Center, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the NYU School of Medicine and

serves as a member of the faculty in the program of developmental and

behavioral pediatrics. So a long experience working with children with

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