Back-to-School Guide for Students with ADHD

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A back-to-school guide for students with ADHD: organization, accommodations, homework, focus, parent-teacher cooperation, school behavior and more.

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10 Things To Do BEFORE School Starts

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Your High School Get-It-Together Guide

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What I Wish My Son's Teachers Knew About ADHD

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4 Easy Pieces to Getting Organized for School

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How to Explain ADHD to a Teacher: Parents Share Their Favorite Tips

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Helping your child appreciate his teacher, this child here, is a staple of back-to-school lists.

Your Most Important Back-to-School List: 10 Conversations Every Parent Should Have

How moms with ADHD can organize back to school transportation, supplies, lunches, and everything else

Parents: This Is YOUR Back-to-School Survival Guide

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Back-to-School Resources

Ways to advocate for children when ADHD stigma gets in the way.

3 Back-to-School Assignments for Parents

Stress and anxiety are a normal part of life for children and adults. Moderate anxiety helps children push themselves to succeed at home and in school. It is normal to feel anxious when taking a test or performing in the school play. We expect children to be nervous at the doctor’s office or when faced with a new situation. But when children are anxious all the time, or when their anxiety is disproportionate to the situation, there may be a bigger problem.

Back to School Jitters

Listen to ADHD expert webinars on school and learning challenges and strategies for children with ADHD

“Your ADHD Back-to-School Nutrition and Exercise Plan” [Video Replay & Podcast #160]

Strategies for succeeding at school with ADHD

Free Downloads

Your Free Back-to-School Playbook

You and your child with ADHD want this to be the best year yet — and it can be. This back-to-school...

Guest Blogs

10 Back-to-School Promises from a Very Cool Teacher

"My job as a teacher is to create fun for people who think they’re about to be bored stiff for the...

Guest Blogs

Back-to-School for Kids with ADHD

Nat, like many kids with ADHD, has a hard time w...

Guest Blogs

“Back at School — and Back in Limbo”

The whirl of grad school leaves me too busy to think about daily life...but my racing ADHD mind still...

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Learning Apps & Tools

3 Digital Skills That Ease Learning (and Life) for Students with ADHD

Digital skills like email processing and document filing are important but rarely taught keys to...

Organization

The School Supplies Your Child Actually Needs: 10 ADHD Essentials

Anyone who has lost a paycheck to The Container Store or IKEA knows that organization systems, though...

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School & Learning

4 Things to Do Before School Reopens: A Checklist for Parents

Most schools will reopen for full-time, in-person learning this school year. Is your child prepared?...

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ADDitude ADHD Experts Podcast

“ADHD Treatment Monitoring for Back-to-School” [podcast episode #118]

In ADDitude's ADHD Experts Podcast episode 118, David Rabiner, Ph.D., explains how to assess the...

ADDitude ADHD Experts Podcast

“Back to School Check Up” [podcast episode #115]

In ADDitude's ADHD Experts Podcast episode 115, Susan Yellin, Esq., discusses how to make adjustments...

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ADDitude ADHD Experts Podcast

“Executive Function Deficits and ADHD at School: Accommodations That Work” [podcast episode #9]

In ADDitude’s ADHD Experts Podcast episode 9, Chris Zeigler Dendy explains specific accommodations...

Guest Blogs

“Do the Next Right Thing. Breathe. Repeat.”

“In a matter of weeks, I can imagine these school supplies getting sent home in a transition to...

School stationery supplies, medical masks and hand gel sanitizer, school reopening, returning back to school after covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is over, new normal concept

ADDitude ADHD Experts Podcast

Podcast Episode #317: “Ready, Set, Pivot: How to Prepare Your Kids (and Yourself) for an Unfamiliar School Year” with Sharon Saline, Psy.D.

Tune in as Sharon Saline, Psy.D., helps parents address anxiety and set up daily routines that reduce...

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