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Tips for Talking to Professors

ADHD can create problems in college. Lack of organizational skills, procrastination, inattention and high frustration levels are just some of the symptoms of ADHD that can cause poor grades, missed or late assignments and skipped classes. It is important for students with ADHD to understand how to ask for accommodations during the college years,... Read moreChevron
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Question of the Week: What is Your Biggest Organizational Challenge?

Those with ADHD are often "organizationally challenged" with piles of papers on virtually every surface in the house, cluttered desks and lost items.   In the past I have worked with some adults with ADHD who would have the least cluttered desk in the office. One woman explained that she could not get any work done with clutter around her... Read moreChevron
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Some interesting news items...

I just stumbled across some news items that others may find interesting...   Mother's Age May Double Autism Risk - The rate doubles when the mother is over 40 years old.   A Hormone-Infused Nasal Spray May Help Autism - Supposedly taking this nasal spray, designed to make women more maternal and men less shy, has helped make... Read moreChevron
posted 02/16/2010, comments (0)|
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Published Writer with an M.Ed in Special Education and Mother

Coping with Adult ADHD: My Interview with Michael Laskoff

Last week I wrote a post entitled, "Why Some People Don't Believe in ADHD"  which generated a lot of discussion among our members on ADHD Central.  One of the people I quoted in my article was Michael Laskoff, a blogger for the Huffington Post who happens to have a diagnosis of adult ADHD.  When Michael dropped by to our site to... Read moreChevron
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Finding an Effective Organization Method (For You)

Like many people with ADHD, I'm constantly searching to find something that will keep me effectively organized and time-managed. After I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2000, I realized that during much of my life, I had spent a lot of time, energy and money trying to organize myself, without knowing precisely why it was so difficult.   In the... Read moreChevron
posted 02/05/2010, comments (0)|

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