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Dr. Now, thanks so much for coming back to the Autism, ADHD podcast and Autism, ADHD, TV.

Great to be here. Thank you, Holly.

So Dr. David Now is a clinical neuropsychologist in private practice in Northborough, Massachusetts.

He offers consultations to patients on an inpatient rehabilitation unit

and is an adjunct instructor in neuropsychology to graduate students in the Clark University

Psychology Program. Dr. Now writes a popular blog at psychology today on motivation and time

management and speaks internationally to clinicians on

such topics as executive functioning, non-medication management of ADHD, and applying findings

from positive psychology. He is passionate about motivation and deep happiness and helping

his clients distinguish the essential from the non-essential in their lives.

And when he's out of the office, you'll probably find him exploring outdoors.

So again, thank you so much for joining us.

And today, we are going to be talking about how to motivate children with autism and or ADHD. Because as we both know, clinicians who've been doing this for a while, we hear this often. We hear my child is not motivated. If he was motivated,

it would be better. You hear this from clinicians, you know, you hear this from educators. It's,

it's really hard and it really breaks down the relationships, the interactions. It's a big issue. So I'm

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