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Topic Areas:

• Parenting
• The Education System
• Adults with ADHD
• Medication for ADHD
• Relationships and Responsibilities
• Social and Work: Styles and Situations
• Symptoms and Side Effects of Having ADHD
• On Being Different
• Coaching and Support Groups
• Organizing Your Time, Thoughts, and Things
• Understanding ADHD and Paying for Effective Treatment
• Personal Stories
• Volunteering
• Book Reviews
• Other Cultures and Other Disorders

Parenting

• Discussing Sex with Your Child
• Why Your Child Acts Without Thinking
• Consequences that Teach: Learning Appropriate Behavior Through Proper Practice, By Mario Lamorte, MFT
• That Pig Can Fly If He Really Wants To...
• Functional Impairments of Adolescents
• Talking to Traumatized Kids
• Summertime and Your ADHD Child
• Resilience
• The Lives of Teens
• ADHD: A Neurobiological Condition
• Help! My Kid is Disorganized!

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The Education System

• IEP Season!
• A Process or A Place: What does it mean to be in Special Education?
• 10 Things to Do, for Parents and Teachers
• Experiences in Special Education
• What Should Be in an IEP?
• How a Student Is Identified as Having a Disability and Needing Special Education Services
• IDEA Reauthorization
• CA High School Exit Exams
• Helping the Student with Attention Problems

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Adults with ADHD

• ADHD: Not Just for Kids Anymore!
• Tips on the Management of Adult ADHD

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Medication for ADHD

• Medication is the Only Treatment for ADHD?
• Cheaper Meds
• Myths of ADD
• AD/HD, Stimulants, and Substance Abuse, by Kristin Stanberry
• Medication Moralists, by Lew Mills, PhD, MFT

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Relationships and Responsibilities

• How Adult ADHD Affects Relationships
• Forgiveness
• The Apology
• The "Gifts" of ADHD (Lew Mills)
• Demystification of Psychology - Attributions
• Why a Support Group for Partners?

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Social and Work: Styles and Situations

• Weavers and Stackers: On Being a "Slo Lerner"
• Tedium Management
• Full Stop - Unemployment for the Adult with ADHD

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Symptoms and Side Effects of Having ADHD

• Sleep Problems and ADHD
• Television and Non-chemical Addictions

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On Being Different

• The Gift - (Tim Battaglia)
• Think Different Differently
• Evolution, Neuro-Cognitive Diversity and ADHD

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Coaching and Support Groups

• How A Support Group Can Help
• Why a Support Group for Partners?
• Online Support Group for ADHD Partners!
• The Four S's: A Comprehensive Program for Coaching People With ADD
• Personal Coaching for ADHD

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Organizing Your Time, Thoughts, and Things

• Finding Our Way Out of Disorder
• FreeCycling - Get Rid of Clutter, Find Stuff for Free
• Time Management and Organization
• Hoarding and Clutter
• How to Remember When You Forget To
• "Priorities" Legend

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Understanding ADHD and Paying for Effective Treatment

• ADHD and Limited Resources
• Mental Health Parity - Perspective
• The ADHD BS Detector
• Cheaper Meds

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Personal Stories

• Huntress on Campus: ADHD at University
• My Story
• Where I Belong: Finding My Place in a Non-ADD World

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Volunteering

• Giving Back to CHADD
• Volunteering - Coordinator's Letter - Lew Mills, PhD
• So You Want to Be in Research?

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Book Reviews

• View from the Cliff: A Course in Achieving Daily Focus
• Parenting 101 - Books You May Have Missed
• Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
• Journeys Through ADDulthood: Discover a New Sense of Identity and Meaning with Attention Deficit Disorder
• ADHD Self-Control and Time reviewed by Sam Peters

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Other Cultures and Other Disorders

• ADHD Across Cultures
• Bipolar Disorder, a Mixed Blessing of Endowments and Risks

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