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

Hi I'm Susan Coffin and you're listening to Attitude magazine's ADHD

experts audio broadcast today. You know there's just nothing more painful for

any of us and watching our children struggle to make friends.

The topic of today's session is how to help children learn social cues and improve their social thinking.

We are so pleased to welcome back Michelle Garcia winner who will address social thinking in the classroom how to help your ADHD child read and respond to hidden social rules.

Let me just interject there that this is not just for ADHD children for any child or

adult for that matter who has problems reading social cues.

Michelle is a speech and language pathologist by training.

She specializes in the treatment of students with

social and cognitive challenges. She's based in San Jose, California where she has a

private practice, but she's a very popular speaker and prolific author speaking

all over the country and internationally.

So we're very fortunate to have her expertise today.

Have a look at her website. It's W.

Social Thinking.com. Tons of great information, free articles, information about her

upcoming talks around the country and the numerous books that she's

published.

Michelle, thank you so much for joining us today.

We're very great to have you back.

Michelle, before you start, let me just tell you about one question that came in over

the Transom today, which I think might be interesting to you. This is from a

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