The ADHD Kids Can Thrive Podcast

Join Kate of ADHDKidsCanThrive, LLC as she explores and learns more about ADHD from thought leaders, experts and advocates. Kate hopes to engage parents, educators and the general community to help ADHD people reach their highest potential. Kate is a parent, author of How We Roll -A Parent’s Journey of Raising an ADHD child, founder of ADHDKIdsCanThrive.com and former media executive. You can find me at https://www.adhdkidscanthrive.com/.

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Episodes

Monday Jan 15, 2024

My guest is a mother of an ADHD child who is now in his mid-twenties. I asked Helen to join me to share her top 10 pieces of earned wisdom that she has gained over the years to share with other parents who may be on a similar journey. She agreed to share in service of helping other parents.
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Topics covered in this episode:
Mother’s Top 10 pieces of wisdom earned from raising a child with ADHD
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#specialed
#parenting
#ADHDkidhealth
#brainhealth
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Monday Nov 20, 2023

My guest today is Kate Brownfield, parent and creator of ADHDKidsCanThrive.com.
This is a quick power session episode of tips to support parents who are raising kids who struggle with attention and more to get through the season of holidays. She is pretty sure this hectic time of year wasn’t designed by neurodiverse thinking people. It’s an important time of year for parents to take into consideration what it really means for their child to struggle with ADHD and make a plan for the holidays from there. When we do, overall family dynamics are more positive!
Learn more at http://www.adhdkidscanthrive.com/.
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Topics covered in this episode:
Why is the holiday season hard for ADHD kids?
Steps parents can take to help the holiday season be more positive
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Thank you for listening. This is the last podcast episode for 2023. It will return for more episodes with ADHD experts and advocates in January 2024.
 
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#adhdkid
#adhdparent
#adhdparentsupport
#adhdsupport 
#adhdkidscanthrive

Monday Nov 13, 2023

My guest is Dr. Elisa Song, holistic pediatrician, integrating conventional pediatrics with functional medicine, holistic nutrition, homeopathy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and essential oils. 
Dr. Elisa Song is  Stanford-, NYU-, UCSF-trained holistic pediatrician. Founder of Whole Family Wellness (formerly Whole Child Wellness), an integrative pediatric practice in Belmont, CA – one of the first and most highly regarded holistic pediatric practices in the country. She  created Healthy Kids Happy Kids – dedicated to empowering parents to take charge of their kids’ health … naturally! She is  also a lecturer for the Center for Education and Development in Clinical Homeopathy (CEDH), Academy for Pain Research, Institute for Functional Medicine, and Holistic Pediatric Association, among others.
Learn more at https://healthykidshappykids.com/.
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Topics covered in this episode:
Do kids with ADHD also struggle with other health conditions?
What is the connection with the gut and brain?
What to do if your child is stuck in taking lots of antibiotics?
How to support gut beyond nutrition?
What type of supplements support an ADHD child?
Dr. Song’s words of wisdom for parents raising an ADHD child?
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#adhd
#adhdkid
#adhdparent
#adhdparentsupport
#adhdsupport 
#specialed
#drsong
#healthykidshappykids
#ADHDkidhealth
#psychobiotics
#guthealth
#brainhealth

Monday Nov 06, 2023

My guest is Lisa Lightner, Special Education Advocate and an IEP parent herself.  Lisa has met countless other advocates, attorneys and other professionals who now lend their knowledge to a  resource the she has created called adayinourshoes.com. 
Lisa offers IEP Coaching and AdvocacyTraining for Parents, E-Guides, Tools and Resources for you to maximize your participation, Letter Templates, and Goal Banks. She supports Boards for both Parents and Advocates, Specialized Add-On Training for those who wish to become Professional Advocates.
Learn more at https://adayinourshoes.com/ and https://adayinourshoes.org/
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Topics covered in this episode:
Lisa’s personal journey of becoming a Special Ed Advocate and resource for others
What steps should parents know if their child is struggling at school?
Does a school dictate how a child will be supported?
How do parents help make a better plan for their child at school?
When should one consider working with a Special Ed Advocate or attorney?
What is the difference between a 504 and IEP?
Why can’t a school simply be more accommodating?
Lisa’s words of wisdom for parents?
 
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#adhd
#adhdkid
#adhdparent
#adhdparentsupport
#adhdsupport 
#specialed
#iep
#504
#specialedadvocate
#adayinourshoes
 

Monday Oct 30, 2023

My guest is Ryan Wexelblatt of ADHDDude.com. He is Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified School Social Worker, and  ADHD Certified Clinical Services Provider. Ryan trains parents to help their children build skills, improve behavior, and, most importantly — feel better about themselves.  He is also Father to a son with ADHD & learning differences.
Ryan created ADHD Dude because he realized that most families of kids with ADHD were getting ineffective help, losing valuable time, and spending a lot of money with little results. 
Learn more at https://adhddude.com/
 
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Topics covered in this episode:
-Ryan’s personal story of work and parenting
- Greatest pain points for parents of ADHD kids
- How parents can work with their ADHD child?
- At what stage does CBT work for an ADHD child?
- How parents can step into their parental authority?
- How ADHD effects kids socially?
- ADHD Dude Camp
- Ryan’s words of wisdom for parents of ADHD kids.
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#adhd
#adhdkid
#adhdparent
#adhdparentsupport
#adhdsupport 
#adhddude

Monday Oct 23, 2023

Pat Aussem, L.P.C, M.A.C, and VP, Consumer Clinical Content Development for Partnership To End Addiction at Drugfree.org. She is responsible for developing services and resources relevant to the families we serve, distilling complex information from multiple sources into understandable and actionable materials for lay audiences. This entails curating information on current substances trends, risk and protective factors, ways to intervene in youth substance use, parenting skills, and how to find and access quality evidence-based treatment along the continuum of care. She is a frequent spokesperson for the organization on topics including vaping, marijuana, opioids, medications to assist treatment and co-occurring disorders among others.
In addition to a Master of Business Administration degree in finance, Pat has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and is licensed in New York as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and in New Jersey as a Licensed Professional Counselor with a Master Addiction Counselor certification. Prior to joining Partnership to End Addiction, she was engaged in clinical work at a psychiatric hospital, collaborating with psychiatrists to provide comprehensive treatment plans for adult and adolescent patients on detox, rehab and co-occurring disorders units. She also supervised an intervention program for perpetrators of interpersonal violence at Jersey Battered Women’s Services.
In addition to her work at Partnership to End Addiction, Pat has a small private practice in New Jersey serving families struggling with addiction and is on the board of Community in Crisis, a local nonprofit focused on ending the opioid epidemic.
Learn more at https://drugfree.org/
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Topics covered in this episode:
How does ADHD put a person at more risk with substance use?
Does using ADHD medication put a person at more risk for addiction?
What are the most used drugs used in 2023?
How has nicotine captured a new generation?
Is marijuana addictive?
What is fentanyl and why is it dangerous?
How parents can help their teen navigate peer pressure of experimenting with drugs?
How parents can navigate if using drugs is experimentally vs a problem?
What steps can parents take to support their teen?
How Partnership to End Addiction can help a parent?
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#adhdkid
#adhdparent
#adhdparentsupport
#adhdsupport 
#substanceabuse
#drugfree.org
#drugfree

Monday Oct 16, 2023

My guest is Dr. Stephen Hinshaw, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his B.A. from Harvard (summa cum laude) and, after directing school programs and residential summer camps, his doctorate in clinical psychology from UCLA, before performing a post-doctoral fellowship at the Langley Porter Institute of UC San Francisco.  
His work focuses on developmental psychopathology, clinical interventions with children and adolescents (particularly mechanisms underlying therapeutic change), and mental illness stigma. He has directed research programs and conducted clinical trials and longitudinal studies for boys and—more recently—for girls with inattention and impulse-control problems (who often express many comorbid disorders), having received over $20 million in NIH funding and an equal amount in foundation funding. He has been Principal Investigator of the Berkeley site for the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (MTA) since 1992.  He is co-director of the UCSF-UC Berkeley Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center, and he directs the UCLA -UC Berkeley Awareness and Hope (stigma reduction) component of the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge. He is also co-director of the Child Teen and Family Center at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. 
Hinshaw has authored over 415 articles, chapters. and commentaries (h-index, Google Scholar = 132), plus 13 books, including The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change (Oxford, 2007), The Triple Bind: Saving our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures (Random House, 2009), and (with R. Scheffler) The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medications, Money, and Today’s Push for Performance (Oxford, 2014). His book with St. Martin’s Press—Another Kind of Madness: A Journey through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness— was released in 2017. It was selected as Best Book (2018) in the category of autobiography/memoir from the American BookFest. Overall, he was one of the 10 most productive scholars in the field of clinical psychology across the past decade. 
Learn more at https://hinshawlab.berkeley.edu/theteam/
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Topics covered in this episode:
Stigma that comes with ADHD
A little history behind misunderstanding ADHD
How does ADHD look different in girls & women
Common Myths of ADHD
Cultural discussion on school set-up for girls vs boys
Key insights learned from ongoing Gov’t study of girls with ADHD
Words of wisdom for anyone struggling with ADHD
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#adhd
#adhdkid
#adhdparent
#adhdparentsupport
#adhdsupport 
#drhinshaw
#adhdingirls
#adhdinwomen
#adhdawareness
 
 
 
 

Monday Oct 09, 2023

My guest is Jamie Nunez, Western Regional Manager, of Commonsense.org. 
Jamie Nunez supports educators, districts, and state education agencies in incorporating digital literacy skills. As a former high school teacher, school administrator, and non-profit education director, Jamie has trained thousands of educators and administrators on student engagement in digital spaces.  
CommonSense.org is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century.
Learn more at www.commonsense.org.
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Topics covered in this episode:
CommonSense tools & resources to support parents & educators
What is the state of technology today in regards to our kids?
How do parents navigate the pain points of tech?
How do parents help their child navigate socializing online?
What is coming in the world of AI?
Jamie’s words of wisdom for parents
ChatGPT- current outlook
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#adhd
#adhdkid
#adhdparent
#adhdparentsupport
#adhdsupport 
#digitalwellness
#commonsense.org
#adhdawarenessmonth
#adhdawareness

Monday Oct 02, 2023

My guest is Ned Hallowell, M.D, a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, author and world authority on ADHD.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and Tulane Medical School, and was a Harvard Medical School faculty member for 21 years. He is the Founder of The Hallowell ADHD Centers in Boston MetroWest, New York City, San Francisco, Palo Alto and Seattle.He has spent the past four decades helping thousands of adults and children live happy and productive lives through his strength-based approach to neurodiversity, and has ADHD and dyslexia himself.
Dr Hallowell is a New York Times bestselling author and has written 20 books on multiple psychological topics. The groundbreaking Distraction series, which began with Driven to Distraction, co-authored with Dr John Ratey in 1994, sparked a revolution in understanding of ADHD. His latest book is ADHD 2.0.
Learn more about Dr. Ned Hallowell at https://drhallowell.com/.
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Topics covered in this episode:
Dr. Hallowell’s definition of ADHD
How do parents direct an ADHD child in a positive way?
What to expect as your ADHD child grows?
How do parents get out of nagging cycle with their child?
Advice for parents stuck in the “Big Struggle”
How parents support their young adult child with ADHD
Dr. Hallowell’s words of wisdom
 
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#adhd
#adhdkid
#adhdparent
#adhdparentsupport
#adhdsupport 
#drhallowell
#adhdawarenessmonth
#adhdawareness
 

Monday Sep 25, 2023

My guest is Roxanne Fouche, director of ADHD Awareness Month Coalition and ADHD Coach.
The mission of ADHD Awareness Month is to educate the public about ADHD by disseminating reliable information based on the evidence of science and peer-reviewed research. 
The coalition members  are ADHD Coaches Organization (ACO) , Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA), and Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD).  ADHD Awareness partners include Centre for ADHD Awareness (CADDAC), Canada and ADHD Europe.
Learn more about ADHD Awareness Month at https://www.adhdawarenessmonth.org/
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Topics covered in this episode:
Learn all about ADHD Awareness Month
How this effort may benefit a person with ADHD
How one can get involved with ADHD Awareness Month
How parents can bring more awareness into their child’s school?
What is an ADHD coach and how may they help an person with ADHD?
Why we need to understand how ADHD impacts a person?
Roxanne’s Words of Wisdom regarding ADHD
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#adhdawareness
#adhdawarenessmonth
#adhdparent
#adhdparentsupport
#adhdsupport 
#specialeducation
#neurodiversity
#adhdkid
#adhdunderstood
#anixous
#depressed
#neurodivergent
#dyslexia
#learningdisabilities
#metalhealth
#mentalhealthadvocate
#mentalhealthawareness
#strugglecare
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