ADHD Interventions Webinar Series
Part 1: Best for school-based clinicians
Student Evaluation Complete...Now What?: School-Based Interventions for ADHD
Presented by: Chris Huzinec
Tuesday, September 10, 20192:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET
So your client or student has been diagnosed with ADHD. Now what?
Designed to answer “what’s next?”, this is a follow-up series to the webinar ADHD: from Assessment to Intervention from spring 2019, and will focus on intervention strategies that can be implemented across various settings.
Now that you have evaluated a child and diagnosed ADHD, what do you do? What strategies, interventions, and supports are available to help you intervene in school?
In this intermediate webinar, we will discuss:
- Behavioral classroom supports and strategies
- Using SEL instruction
- Addressing deficits in executive functions
- Supports and interventions for ADHD that can be integrated within overall school practices through academic supports and accommodations
- These supports are strengthened by aligning with medication treatment and involving parents
- Assessments that can be used to monitor progress and evaluate school-based interventions
- Best practices in school-based strategies and supports
Learner Outcomes
Based on the content of the webinar, participants will be able to:
- Explain the underlying conditions in schools which impact school-based interventions for ADHD.
- Identify behavioral classroom interventions and strategies and demonstrate how they can be used within a multi-tiered system.
- Explain the focus of their ADHD support and interventions beyond addressing inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity to include Executive Function competencies like working memory, self-regulation, and focusing, sustaining, and shifting attention.
- Discuss how supports and interventions for ADHD can be integrated within overall school practices through academic supports and accommodations, aligning with medication treatment, and by involving parents.
Part 2: Best for non-school based clinicians
ADHD evaluation complete… now what? Part 2 of the ADHD Interventions webinar series
Presented by: Peter Entwistle PhD
Thursday, October 24, 2019 | 3:00 p.m. ET
Once a child has been diagnosed with ADHD by a physician, what can be done to help? In a separate recorded webinar we discussed what a school can do to assist a child with ADHD, but outside of the school setting, what else can be done to optimize the progress of children and adolescents with ADHD?
What is the experience of children with ADHD? What is their trajectory over time? What challenges do they face at home, school, and work with parents, siblings, and peers? Can medicine help? What should a parent know about medications, and what questions does a parent need to ask the doctor? Is that all that can be done? Are medications enough, or should parents and therapists be seeking additional interventions? What is the best approach?
What types of research based interventions can help a child with ADHD? Can children profit from behavioral programs to improve executive functioning? Are there computer-based programs to improve working memory? Is there evidence to show they work? Does a child with ADHD benefit from psycho-social interventions? Do they need individual counseling, peer support, and structured programs? What else do they need? What about communications between the teacher, parent and physician to monitor the effects of interventions?
In this intermediate webinar, we will provide a response to these questions. We will also look at what happens as children become adolescents and how the disorder changes over time, and as they become adults, what features persist, and what challenges they face. In order to illustrate this we will review some case studies of individuals with ADHD and see how testing informs treatment.
Learner Outcomes
Based on the content of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Explain the challenges children with ADHD will face as they mature, and the co-morbidity and the trajectory for adolescents and adults with ADHD.
- Describe the research-based computer interventions to improve working memory, and to boost executive functioning in children with ADHD.
- Demonstrate the importance of improving executive skills in school-aged children consistent with the Brain Futures report
- Identify the medications that can help improve the performance of children with ADHD, and the questions parents need to ask their physicians about the risks, benefits and side-effects profile of these medicines
- Discuss the importance of psycho-social interventions for children with ADHD, and apply that knowledge when working with parents.
Pearson is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Pearson maintains responsibility for this program and its content
Pearson is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists to offer continuing education for school psychologists. Pearson maintains responsibility for the program.