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

Good afternoon everyone and Susan Cloffin here from Attitude magazine.

I'm really pleased to welcome you to our latest webinar.

Today's webinar is with Susan Kruger who is a learning

specialist to study field specialist and certified reading teacher with some

20 years experience working with kids, children like our children with

ADD and other special learning issues. She is herself an ADHD mother of

two ADHD children, so not only does she have professional experience but she

also knows exactly what you're going through. So Susan thank you for joining us today

and let me turn it over to you for a few words of introduction.

Well, it's a pleasure for me to be here.

I've enjoyed Attitude magazine as a parent and a teacher for quite a long time,

so I'm thrilled to be able to contribute and to work with your audience.

Today since we're talking about tools to help your child excel in school, I thought I would first

share just a very brief bit about the mechanics of what we're dealing with.

So in order to identify the right tools, it's really helpful if we know what's going on in

the brain.

And that's what I'm going to share with you here for a couple minutes as we get started.

The first thing that's really important to know, and this is really critical for anyone who's dealing with the learning disability

or dealing with ADHD is to understand that the brain has many different sections

each section is responsible for different types of information the frontal cortex which is where ADHD originates is the organizing center of the brain.

It orchestrates everything from your five senses and feelings to the thoughts you generate in response to them.

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