Helping kids with ADHD improve executive function skills - ADHD Dude - Ryan Wexelblatt
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Күн бұрынBeyond Organizing Binders: Helping your child improve executive function skills. Presentation for Bridgewater/Raynham SEPAC. Oct 21, 2020
There is a link at the end of the presentation to download a PDF handout.
Hi, I'm Ryan Wexelblatt, LCSW aka "ADHD Dude". I'm a Certified ADHD Professional, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, School Social Worker and a dad. The ADHD Dude methodology is a modern approach to treating ADHD-related challenges (social skills for boys, executive functioning, emotional regulation). The videos for kids are in the Dude Talk playlists.
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@LoveLife-gv8jg Жыл бұрын
I AM FINALLY FINDING THE VIDEOS I NEED FOR THE SPECIFIC CONCERNS WE HAVE. THANK GOD
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@helly52 Жыл бұрын
SAME!!! 🙌 I feel like I’ve found a gold mine of information here.
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@jordanwilliams1984 5 ай бұрын
3:31 "I want to get out of the house in the morning without screaming at him and without putting him in tears..." 😭😭 😭 Us too!! 😭😭😭. Thank you so much for your help!!! ❤️❤️❤️
@ADHDDude 4 ай бұрын
Please check out the Executive Function Crash Course series. The strategies in Webinar 2 that would help you change that.
@Stephaniewashere Жыл бұрын
I always get a little teary eyed when I think of you adopting an 8-year-old boy and working so hard to give him a real shot at being successful in life. Seriously.. what a guy, and a true hero to many!!! ❤
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
Thank you Stephanie, I really appreciate it. :)
@linbron2018 Жыл бұрын
I have tried so many techniques, lol. I believe they have to see the clocks thank goodness I have been. Taking break then doing homework has work. We do shower then break with snacks then homework then do a 10 min break then back at homework. The final reward is time alone to play or board game of Friday night iPad game time only. No game time during the week . It’s been working. Awesome video
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@michellelavin1795 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing talk. Thank you so much! I am realizing that I have to throw out almost all of the parenting techniques that I have learned and were successful with my two other children and completely start over in terms of my approach and expectations. This and all of your other posts and videos are extraordinarily helpful.
@ADHDDude 3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure, so glad to hear it! Thank you :)
@paulmichaelgregory2240 10 ай бұрын
Yes absolutely
@felista_njoki3427 2 жыл бұрын
What a timely wealth of practical knowledge! Thank you so much.
@ADHDDude 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@candykane4271 9 ай бұрын
I think all of these ideas applies to most kids ….says a mother of 5 grandma to 12 and I’m always looking to improve my methods. So far I have 3 ADD kids in this bunch …including ME.
@nissacita3178 Жыл бұрын
This is amazing, i feel so grateful to find this video!
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad to hear that, thank you!
@mrs.kpbailey 4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing your work! 🙏🏾
@ADHDDude 4 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
@mariealexa 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!! I am 14 almost 15 trying improve myself on things. Because I want go back I can’t go out much because can’t focus when I am out
@ADHDDude 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for watching!
@lindsaylewis7097 Жыл бұрын
I’m so happy I found you! I hope this helps my daughter 🙏🙏🙏
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
So glad you did as well, thank you!
@peggysanterre322 6 ай бұрын
Thank you for all these insights. Very helpful
@ADHDDude 6 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@lllee3476 9 ай бұрын
Thank you for your tips and explaining the differences between prompting and scaffolding! I've been inconsistent with the prompting and scaffolding with preschoolers with ADHD. On a different point, I would think doing the easiest homework first would leave more time to doing the more difficult academic work.
@ADHDDude 9 ай бұрын
You brain is more tired towards the end of homework thus if you save the most boring/uninteresting homework till the end the whole homework process takes much longer.
@sharonperkins7251 3 жыл бұрын
This maked soooo much sense!
@ADHDDude 3 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it :)
@amandasharp8549 Ай бұрын
Can I just say as a mom, with 2 Littles I used to be so embarrassed to have so many papers and food in the car but it's kinda like a massive backpack
@user-je8kr3jm6j 23 күн бұрын
Absolutely fantastic !
@ADHDDude 23 күн бұрын
Many thanks!
@halaawtrey 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! This has been very helpful!
@ADHDDude 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@paulmichaelgregory2240 10 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for this video 👏🙏
@ADHDDude 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@nurululfah8555 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your tips ..it really helps
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@user-me1ql5ke9p 7 ай бұрын
Thank you that was very helpful to know.
@ADHDDude 7 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@anonymousunknown8709 9 ай бұрын
BTW, You’re amazing! Thank you ❤
@ADHDDude 9 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@dawnepiscopo9220 2 жыл бұрын
Thank You!
@ADHDDude 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@_BlackPaladin 4 ай бұрын
30:10 is about teaching kids how to monitor / conceptualize time using an analog clock ⏰
@dancingtoledo 4 ай бұрын
Great content here. I can’t wait to sign up for a webinar.
@ADHDDude 4 ай бұрын
Great to hear!
@andreajohnson3277 Жыл бұрын
Your going to save our family. Or at least me from going crazy.
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
If I can help one person from going crazy that makes my day!
@camillesneed5133 2 жыл бұрын
This is magnificent help!!!!!! Thank you so much! Yes to ALL you asked! I have used it all and tried it all. This is incredibly helpful. How can I get printable of this information?
@ADHDDude 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for watching! So I don't create transcripts of videos but you're welcome to check out the ADHD Dude Facebook page as I have more text content there.
@Roar1921 Жыл бұрын
My son screams loudly and interrupts others' conversations. My daughter feels like she never gets to speak. He complaints about others exactly about the same thing he does to others (like turning up late, interrupting, never taking the initiative to call his friends to play) And looks like he believes it genuinely.
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
What you're describeing is difficulty with perspective taking. I have videos about this in the Social Skills playlist and teach parents how to teach perspective-taking in the Socially Smarter series, which is part of the ADHD Dude Membership Site.
@Roar1921 Жыл бұрын
@@ADHDDude tx again🙏
@Roar1921 Жыл бұрын
Just wanted to add, he takes our phones away or anything that's important to us, if we don't relent to his demand for his gadget.
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
So that's letting him control you....
@janetstauffer9138 3 жыл бұрын
Tell me more about non verbal working memory being split from verbal working memory? Do you mean they can’t shift from thinking about going to the grocery store to bring at grocery store? They don’t have that pre- thinking? It reminds me of dog training. If you are walking you dog and teach her to heel while she’s on the left, you also have to teach then while she’s on the right.
@ADHDDude 3 жыл бұрын
I cover this in the Executive Function Crash Course webinar series and teach strategies to help build these.
@lilowellness4974 2 жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks so much for this. amazing info! One thing I'm confused about, I find timers great for transitioning. I'm surprised you say timers aren't helpful. Do you mean as an incentive? Thx!!
@ADHDDude 2 жыл бұрын
Timers cannot teach you how to sense the passage of time because they only show time and decreasing increments. When a timer stops it doesn't show you time moving forward so they cannot actually teach you how to feel time.
@work_in_progress161 4 ай бұрын
I am an adult but honestly all this advice relates to me )
@ADHDDude 4 ай бұрын
Yes, a lot of it would be relevant and please check out my colleague: addept_org on Instagram for excellent adult adhd content.
@AnastaAnam28 8 ай бұрын
Well heck! How do you help teach visual strategies for non-verbal working memory?! I have Aphantasia 😅 I literally cant visualize! Never have been able to. Its just black if i close my eyes. Well heck, that's gonna be challenging. Hmmm.... So recently my husband asked me how i remember things since i cant visualize anything. I told him its a combination of a ridiculously good memory for details and then accessing the information. Since i cant visualize anything i started to draw. It helped me remember what things looked like. You draw enough feathers, eventually you know what they look like. Recalling is much harder without the visual help. I DO remember better with strong emotion attached to it. And i do. I attach emotion to everything 😅 But also smell, feel and oddly colors. Between those 4 thing it covers almost everything. In my school years i would listen to CDs. CDs i owned specifically. Because i could use the the music as another prompt to bring memory forward. Which was crucial for me as i was trying to recall data i read but was emotionally unconnected to and wasnt a physical object beyond a book in my hard. And not even an old book which at least would have had a scent to it. To this day i cant head smashing pumpkins without recalling civics 😅
@anaismendieta221 8 ай бұрын
Any webinars for professional adults? I have learned a lot of the strategies, but I could benefit from more as I advanced in my career and have more challenges
@ADHDDude 7 ай бұрын
Hi, I don't create content for adults with ADHD, sorry.
@racheltreitel1205 Жыл бұрын
Do you have a KZfaq video for helpful tips going through school with friends and hardship there?
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
Please see the social skills playlist
@dianna9550 2 жыл бұрын
Where can we get the green overlay for the clock?
@ADHDDude 2 жыл бұрын
It's not an overlay, it's a strategy I teach in my Executive Function Crash Course for Parents webinar series.
@loneghostkitten Жыл бұрын
Can I marry your mind? No, I’ll just learn to adapt akin to your mind. I have ADD too, but everything I’m hearing I get, and I can use. Thaaaaannnkkkkkkyyyyyoooouuuuuu
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
So glad to hear it! :)
@claudiaolivaress1320 6 ай бұрын
Great tips for me to look up..my boys all have ADHD but each one is particularly different. Would you mind giving examples of such suggestions.
@ADHDDude 6 ай бұрын
Please visit the Executive Function playlist here at the channel and see some of the most recent videos as well. Thank you for watching.
@hannahwolf9048 Жыл бұрын
Do you have a suggestion on a kid that doesn’t think to drink water? Or ANYTHING for that matter?😣 struggling and she’s becoming sick!!!
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
You set specific times where she cannot do anything else but drink aka "drink breaks"
@michellehutsix5276 10 ай бұрын
Great presentation. How can I get the slides to this presentation. Thank you so much.
@ADHDDude 10 ай бұрын
Thank you I appreciate it! I don't know if you can still download the slides from this, you can look here: www.additudemag.com/author/ryan-wexelblatt-lcsw/ where the presentation is located.
@tamarathompson8001 2 жыл бұрын
Are the webinars still available?
@ADHDDude 2 жыл бұрын
Yes www.adhddudecourses.com thank you for asking
@tamarathompson8001 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! All signed up!
@talaeperry6430 Жыл бұрын
What homework should be done in which order?
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
It varies for each individual, I teach how to do this in Webinar 5 of the Executive Function Crash Course series.
@andreacook2416 7 ай бұрын
How would these strategies work for a kid with pathological demand avoidance?
@ADHDDude 7 ай бұрын
Pathological Demand Avoidance is not a diagnosis and lacks sufficient evidence to support it. I have a post coming out about it this weekend. I find most people have a limited understanding of ADHD (no fault of their own); thus, when they hear the term "PDA," they believe common ADHD traits fall under this PDA label, which has no scientific validity. Regarding your question, in Scaffolding Better Behavior, my parent behavior training program, I teach how to stop accommodating inflexibility and stop giving attention to oppositional behaviors; thus, these strategies work when you deal with inflexibility/argumentativeness first.
@sweetfayce18 8 ай бұрын
Now I feel like a failure. For 14 years, Ive been acting as my son's executive functioning. Now Im doing it to my 7 year old
@ADHDDude 8 ай бұрын
Definitely not a failure, and it's never too late to change this. Please see the Executive Function playlist here at the channel.
@emma8634 7 ай бұрын
This is a big thing before we understand our children, I did the same for my first two sons and now trying to be be different with my third! So hard, but you are here looking to grow so be kind to yourself mama x
@AnastaAnam28 8 ай бұрын
Heh, well at least im doing something right. Got to the "what had impacted natural executive function skills development" slide and it made me proud to be a late gen x who had kids late. Im 43 with 2 boys, 1 is 10 and the other is 6. We own 1 tv. No computer. No game console. We have 2 tablets that only have educational games and school apps on them. Dad and i have cell phones so if our 10 year old needs the internet for school he has to go through our hotspot. We. Have. No. Internet. Bill! Which allows us to put that money aside for taking the boys to fun educational activities. Still ADHD is a problem. I have executive function issues, whether its due to ADHD, CPTSD or frontal lobe injury, is anyones guess as i have all 3. Our 10 year old doesnt have any problems beyond having a parent with executive function issues but the 6 year old. Lordy. I fear his are worse because of my inability to show him what its supposed to look like. But then, i made it to 41 without knowing thats what my problem was. Im extremely glad i found your youtube channel. Maybe it will help me. So that i can help my son. Thats my biggest concern in life. Setting them up for success and happiness in life, in whatever form that takes for them. I didnt have that and know what the deficit of it looks like from here. So thank you again for all your hard work! ❤
@anonymousunknown8709 9 ай бұрын
Can you recommend resources for an previously highly functioning adult who suffered severe trauma and relapsed into severe executive functioning defects? Ty
@ADHDDude 9 ай бұрын
Yes addept_org on Instagram, she specializes in adult ADHD and is great
@anonymousunknown8709 9 ай бұрын
@@ADHDDude thank you!! ♥️💯
@nykka3 Жыл бұрын
Is there an alternative clock option that would work for a 5 year old?
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
They don't need to know how to tell time to use the strategy, they just need to be able to identify numbers.
@Roar1921 Жыл бұрын
If i give my son his screen time, he never gives it back on time. And he is big now and runs away with the gadget and locks the room. I end up not wanting to give him any screen at all bcz of this even as a reward. But I still do, after few days, just to have the same thing repeat
@ADHDDude Жыл бұрын
That's because you're giving it to him as an entitlement, rather something that's earned. He would greatly benefit by you stepping into your parental authority and putting expectations in place for earning screen time, as well as requiring him to use the strategy I teach in the thumbnail of this video which is from the Executive Function Crash Course webinar series.
@Roar1921 Жыл бұрын
@@ADHDDude 🙏 tx for the response. Will check the thumbnail
@FierceEQueen 11 ай бұрын
My baby girl has low sense of danger, so she tends to run while looking back or she would even walk over something that is an obstacle between her and something that caught her attention. There are also couple of times where i had to save my youngest daughter from bring stepped on cause big sis is drawn to something that really caught her attention. She seems to switch too quickly from one activity to another, she can get tired of toys too quickly. I need comfirmation eventhough i will get her assessed. Do you believe some of these behaviors may indicate my child may have ADHD ?
@ADHDDude 11 ай бұрын
There's no way I could answer that questions without knowing age or any other information.
@becaye7380 3 ай бұрын
11 minutes in and I feel like a shitty parent 😭. Yelling at him then conflicted with am I coddling ? Where is the medium!? My son struggles to have a solid friend and kids get annoyed with him or they don’t stick around long. 😭. Idk how to approach my son or the best way to help him. He is 14 so we want to get everything we can for him to make sure he is equipped for adulthood challenges.
@ADHDDude 3 ай бұрын
1. I suggest starting with the "Start Here" playlist. 2. After that the "Social Skills" playlist would be helpful to you.
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