ADHD and Executive Functioning Resources

Free Behavioural Interventions

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• Confident Parents: Thriving Kids – Behaviour: A free coach-based program offered by the Canadian Mental Health Association in BC to help parents with behavioural management strategies for children aged 3-12.

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• Rolling with ADHD: Free 8-week online learning program from BC Children's Hospital with interactive short videos, questions, and practical strategies. 

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• Unstuck and On Target: A curriculum and a set of easy-to-use tools that employ cognitive behavioural techniques to improve flexibility, planning and organization. It consists of small group lessons and simple, everyday strategies that build a common language to better regulate feelings, behaviour and thinking.

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More about ADHD

• Explaining ADHD to kids

• How to explain ADHD video

• One more article on How to Talk to Your Kid About ADHD

• Favourite things about ADHD

• ​ADHD Comics

• What are the Myths and Facts Behind ADHD? 

• 42 Years of ADHD Research in Females: Insights, Surprises, and What We've Learned

• Visuals & Videos for Explaining Neurodivergency to Kids

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Websites​

• Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) 

• Center for ADHD Awareness (CADDAC)

• Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance (CADDRA)

• Child Mind Institute

• BC Children's Hospital ADHD clinic

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Podcast for Parents

What’s the Best Way to Help a Kid with ADHD?

Embracing ADHD with Penn and Kim Holderness

The Urgent Need to Diagnose ADHD in Girls – Dr. Stephen Hinshaw

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For more information about assessing executive function in children, please see Assessment.

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Free Webinars​

• Cognitive, executive, emotional, and behavioural interventions for students.

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• Usually messy and always late: Understanding executive functioning and organizational skills challenges for Students with ADHD

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Videos

• ADHD in women

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• Self-care in ADHD

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• Videos delivered by Dr. Russell Barkley, one of the leading experts in ADHD 

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• Entertaining video on the teen brain

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• Teen ADHD

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• Jack and Jill have ADHD

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• ​The ADHD brain as a film director

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• List of visuals and videos for explaining testing results and learning differences to kids:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rPpqxlufrQlv8Orq7aL8D5TyOD6EooVOGM52wJvVUXI/edit#gid=810368691

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ADHD/EF Books

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• ​Smart But Scattered (Dawson & Guare, 2009): This book guides how to deal with day-to-day problems experienced by children, including following instructions in the classroom, doing homework, completing chores, reducing performance anxiety, and staying calm under pressure.

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• Taking Charge of ADHD: The complete, authoritative guide for parents (Barkley, 2020): written by the leader in the ADHD field, this is a key parent resource about ADHD and its treatment 

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• Thriving with ADHD workbook for kids: 60 fun activities to help children self-regulate, focus, and succeed (Miller, 2018): Help your child understand and manage their ADHD with engaging activities for kids ages 7 to 12

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• Understanding Girls with ADHD: A comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable book that illuminates the complexity of ADHD in girls and women, both across the lifespan and across multiple domains of life ​​