ADHD Answers

Through my blog, I help parents who have children with ADHD and teachers who work with these children. I discuss social skills as well as executive function skills, such as organizational skills. Through my private practice, I teach children with ADHD to obtain positive social skills as well as to learn more effective executive function skills, such as how to plan their academic work by developing efficient organizational skills.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

A Major League Baseball Player's Struggles with ADHD

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"San Francisco Giants center-fielder, Andrés Torres, came from humble means, found rejection, mockery, and disappointment, and struggl...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

What Difficulties do Children with ADHD Experience when they Converse with Children or Adults?What Interventions can we Try in order to Help them to Converse more Easily? Use Literature!!!

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Don’t children with ADHD know how to converse with children or adults? Certainly they know how to speak to another person. However, what I m...
Monday, December 12, 2011

How is your Child and/or Teenager with ADHD Behaving with the Holidays Looming Closer?

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Have you noticed that your child/teenager is exhibiting the following behaviors  more than usual during this holiday season? ·          I...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

A Look at a New England Patriots Player and his Lifelong Struggle with Bullying

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What are some of the characteristics of someone who has been bullied? Vulnerable?   Appearing to be different? Short in stature? Downt...
Friday, December 9, 2011

Why are Children Bullied? Lea Michele: Bullied Into Changing Her Name

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Why are Children Bullied? There are many reasons why children are bullied, one of which may be because of their name. Lea Michele talks he...

ADVICE FROM A CHILD WITH ADHD: How can Individuals who are Unfocused Successfully Complete the Many Jobs that they have to Accomplish at Home?

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I was talking the other day with a child with whom I work about ways that she could go about diminishing her distractibility (she calls it b...
Thursday, December 1, 2011

"Staying Safe on the Roads: Driving with ADHD" Courtesy of the National Resource Center on AD/HD: A Program of CHADD

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December 1, 2011 Staying Safe on the Roads: Driving with ADHD One of the biggest rites of passage for young people in the United States ...
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Esta M. Rapoport, Ed.D
I am experienced in working with children with ADHD and other similar special needs and their parents. I have an B.A. from N.Y.U.an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an Ed.D from Boston University. My book, ADHD and Social Skills: A Step-by-Step-Guide for Teachers and Parents has been endorsed by elite professionals in the field. Dr. Russell A. Barkley, stated that “This is a lavishly detailed book providing numerous recommendations for ways to address the social interaction problems and social skills impairments associated with ADHD in children."
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