6 Things About ADHD Parents Need To Know
5/25/202638 min
Today, Jess dives deep into a highly requested topic: Understanding and supporting the ADHD brain. Drawing from her clinical experience with neurodivergent children, she breaks down six crucial insights. If you want to understand the 'why' behind your child's behaviour and learn how to foster an environment where they can truly thrive, you won't want to miss this solo episode!
Check out these episodes for more on supporting cognitive flexibility:
Brain Stuckness: Why Kids Struggle With Flexibility (Part 1)
Brain Stuckness: Reducing Power Struggles & Building Flexibility (Part 2)
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to Robot Unicorn hosted by my parents, Jess and Scott. I hope you enjoyed the episode.
Jess VanderWier· Host0:14
[upbeat music] Hey, friends. Welcome back to Robot Unicorn. It's Jess here today, and today I wanted to talk to you about a topic that you have been asking for, for a very long time, and that topic is, I'm sure you know, ADHD. It's so interesting because in my work-- So I remember dating back to my first practicum placement in my undergraduate degree, I was working for a government-run program in my practicum placement who worked with kids with what we call dual diagnosis. So what that means is that they had two different diagnoses happening, and typically what I was seeing was a diagnosis, let's say, of ADHD, autism, global developmental delay, like different neurodivergence, as well as mental health struggles, so oppositional defiance disorder, depression, anxiety, et cetera. And the very first project that I was given in my undergraduate degree was to create a workbook for parents who had children with ADHD. And so this is one of my very first topics