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

Hey welcome everybody. My name is Kirk Martin. I'm founder of Celebrate Calm and I'm

thrilled to be here on this webinar. I have a son who's 19 who is diagnosed with ADHD

many many years ago. I have it myself and for many years I just

tried to change his behavior and because I didn't understand what was going on with him.

And what we eventually did is team up with people like Dr. Daniel Aeman of the Aeman Clinic and Howard Glasser

great educational researcher and we developed this brain boosters program

to help kids with focus and attention and with behavior issues. It's in about

60,000 schools and eventually here's what ended up changing our lives. I called my

wife one night and I said honey, got this amazing idea. Why don't we take these really kind of challenging kids

were very misunderstood and why don't we invite them into our home and we'll

teach them why these dinner camps they'll come and eat dinner and we'll teach

some self-regulation how to control their emotions.

We'll tutor them so they can do homework in a more stress-free way.

We'll teach them social skills. We'll teach them how to deal with their anxiety, and they'll come over on the weekends

and then in the summer we'll just have intense kids in our home all summer long.

It'll be great.

And for whatever reason, my wife didn't like the idea at first but she's got a big heart.

And so over the course of a decade we had about 1500 kids with different issues, some kids

with ADHD

ocd d asperger's attachment disorders

autism sensory issues anxiety issues

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