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

Hello everyone and glad you can attend Attitudes weekly ADHD experts webinar. If you find yourself shouting at your kids as I do several times a week, stop looking at your phone and talk to me, or unplugged from your video game already, you have homework to do.

This webinar is definitely for you. The fact is that technology gets

in the way of all kinds of things, study habits, relationships with friends and family,

and frankly the rest of life.

There are lots of good reasons why kids with ADHD shouldn't spend all of their time texting or watching YouTube.

But the question is, how can parents successfully limit their child screen time?

Today we have expert David Anderson to help us with this topic.

He'll talk about the latest research on screen time and its effects positive and negative on the ADHD brain.

He'll also give us guidelines on healthy screen limits.

Let me introduce Dr. Anderson.

He is Senior Director of the ADHD and Behavior Disorder Center

and the Senior Director of National Programs

and Outreach at the Child Mine Institute. He specializes in evaluating

and treating children and adolescents with ADHD, behavior, anxiety, and mood disorders.

He frequently lectures and leads workshops for policy makers,

parents and educators on the keys, on key central mental health issues.

Before Dr. Anderson makes this presentation,

though, we'd like to conduct a little poll.

What screen-related issue are most concerned about? The kind of

content your child looks at online, effects of social media or video games, the time spent on devices, or all of the above.

While you're taking the poll, I'd like to say that the sponsor of this week's Attitude

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