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

Hey everyone good afternoon at Susan Coffin. I'm here for Attitude magazine's weekly ADHD experts broadcast. Today we are honored to be talking with pediatricians and

authors, Dr Eileen Costello and Dr Perry class, about managing anxiety and

children and adolescents with

ADHD and with learning disabilities,

they will be telling us more about the prevalence of anxiety

in kids with ADHD and learning differences,

about how the symptoms of a primary anxiety disorder overlap and are quite

distinct from the symptoms of ADHD why cognitive behavior therapy or CBT is the gold standard for treatment of anxiety and some advice

about having developing language in your family to help kids understand and talk about their anxiety. We are really pleased to welcome these two

distinguished speakers. I want to introduce them to you first. Dr. Eileen Costello is a clinical

professor of pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine and the chief of ambulatory pediatrics at Boston Medical Center.

She and Dr. Klass are the co-authors a great book, which I recommend to all of you,

quirky kids, Understanding and Helping Your Child, Doesn't Sit In.

It was published by Valentine in 2003.

It's still a great book, even though that was some years ago and they are

actually working on a new edition with an expected publication in 2020.

Dr Perry classes someone you may read know and read in the New York Times. She's professor

of pediatrics and journalism at New York University and she writes regularly

on topics of relevant children and families including a weekly column called

the Checkup in the New York Times.

She teaches pediatric residents in the primary care program at Bellevue Hospital in New York and

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