28- What Is ADHD? Explaining It to Family, Friends, Teachers, and Colleagues - ADHD Awareness Month Series
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2013
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Do people in your or your child's life just not get attention deficit? Michele Novotni, Ph.D., shares strategies and sample language you can use to explain ADHD in different settings, and to raise awareness in your community.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Susan Coffin here for Attitude. You've probably been told that ADHD is just a |
| 0:16.4 | discipline problem or maybe laziness or just an excuse for your bad parenting |
| 0:21.6 | skills or maybe even my personal favorite, not really a medical condition. |
| 0:26.2 | After all, don't we all just have ADHD in the modern world? |
| 0:29.9 | Today is the first day of ADHD Awareness Month. |
| 0:33.1 | And attitude is joined with the leading ADHD organizations |
| 0:36.8 | in the United States. |
| 0:37.6 | Chad in the National ADHD Advocacy Organization |
| 0:40.6 | Ada, the Adult Detention Deficit Disorder Association, and ACO, the organization of ADHD |
| 0:46.2 | coaches, to launch a series of initiatives designed |
| 0:49.2 | to spread the truth about ADHD and to help you guys rebut the myths. We're really asking everyone in the ADHD |
| 0:55.8 | community to turn out and help us turn around these myths that we all live with that are so |
| 1:01.9 | damaging to us and our children. |
| 1:04.2 | To kick off today's ADHD awareness month, we're really honored today to have Dr. Michelle Novatny |
| 1:09.0 | as our guest. |
| 1:10.6 | She is an internationally recognized expert in the field of ADHD and she is not only the founder of the very first ADHD awareness event some 10 years ago, but also the chair of this year's coalition. |
| 1:23.6 | She's an internationally recognized expert |
| 1:25.5 | in the field of ADHD, the author of several books on the topic. |
| 1:29.8 | A regular columnist for Attitude magazine, |
| 1:31.9 | I'm happy to say, a psychologist, a coach and the parent |
| 1:34.6 | of a young adult with ADHD. |
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