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

I'm Susan Hoffman. I'm here for Attitude magazine and you are listening to Attitudes

ADHD experts. Today we're talking about learning disabilities and intention deficit disorder. you may be surprised to learn

that as many as 70% of people with attention deficit disorder also suffer from

one or more learning disabilities such as reading difficulties, dyslexia, language

processing disorders, problems with math and so forth.

So diagnosing and managing learning disabilities can make it really difficult and complicated to deal simultaneously

with diagnosing and treating attention deficit disorder. I am extremely

pleased today to welcome Dr. Nancy Payne. She's the president of the Board of Directors

of the Learning Disabilities Association.

That's LDA.

It is a wonderful organization over 50 years old

with chapters in many states

and a terrific website that's recently been redesigned.

Please check it out.

It's L-D-A-A-America, so there are two A's in that, and sometimes can use me, L-D-A-N-E-R-I-C-A dot org.

And find out if there is a support group near you,

find out the resources that are available,

I think you will be surprised to learn

how much wonderful work LDA does. So with that let me turn it over to

Dr Payne. Thank you so much again for being here today. Thanks for having me. I am really

excited about this and I just like to share a couple things to kind of frame our conversation and some of your questions.

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