October is ADHD awareness month and while I talked about incorporating your patients’ interests in my other post, in this post I wanted to include a related self-care tip: “incorporate your interest.” Individuals with ADHD experience hyperfocus with their interests and “hypo-focus” with many things outside their interests. For this reason, incorporating interests can be …
Category: October 2022
ADHD & Speech-Language Pathology
October is ADHD awareness month! I actually learned very little about ADHD’s effects on communication as a graduate student and it wasn’t until I began seeing lots of patients with ADHD that I started to wonder about the connection between the disorder and speech and langauge. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to work with …
Review: Too Loud App⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Volume modulation is a common struggle for those with ADHD. I’ve found the best way to address it is with in-the-moment feedback from an outside source. The Too Loud app is my favorite way to accomplish this. This app is FREE and is customizable enough to change the sensitivity and dampening levels. I find that …
Following Directions with Toca Life World
In case you don’t know: Toca Life World is a FREE app that many of the children I work with love. Here’s the link for the android version of Toca Life World and here’s the link for the iPad version. When I use it for following directions I give my in-person patients one of my …