These slides were provided as a handout for a series of 1-hour programs provided at local (central Massachusetts) libraries by David Nowell, Ph.D. Similar talks are still being scheduled. Questions? contact David@DrNowell.com

1. A Parent’s ADHD Overview:
11 Strategies for Common Home &
School Challenges
@davidnowell David Nowell Seminars
www.DrNowell.com

2. Upcoming events
• 1/7/15 at 630pm – Clinton public library “A
Parent’s ADHD Overview”
• 1/13/15 at 630pm – West Boylston public
library “A Parent’s ADHD Overview”
• Spring 2015 (4 Mondays): ADHD 101 for
Parents
www.DrNowell.com

3. Nutrition for better brain function

4. Work with the brain’s 24-hour
chemical cycle

5. “Green time” and “exercise for focus”

6. Consider your “team”
• Pediatrician
• Teacher
• Occupational Therapist
• Speech Language Pathologist
• Counselor
• Coaches
• Neuropsychologist
• Parent

7. Motor and sensory interventions
• Fidget / movement
• Sensory input

8. Meta-cognition

9. Knock 3 years off his/her age

10. Managing homework

11. easy hard
If It’s Harder than a “3” Find Some
Way to Make It Easier

12. Pomodoro Technique

13. Launching Pad

14. Don’t do something for your ADHD
teenager which could be performed by
a device or an app

15. Medications for ADHD