Find a therapist to help with ADHD

College offers new opportunities and challenges for students with ADHD.

Parents can help by making sure their child is aware of key campus resources and organizational tools.

Knowing in advance where to find a good doctor and get medication if they need it is also valuable.

The majority of parents of college-bound students are understandably concerned about what the transition will be like for both their children and themselves. Perhaps you’re a parent reading this, and you have high hopes for your child to go off to college and have a successful journey, both academically and socially. But if you’re a parent of a child with ADHD, you may have other concerns and worries. This article addresses how to deal with those.

As a college professor for over 30 years, I have witnessed the proliferation of this diagnosis among my students. Sometimes it is a formal diagnosis by a physician, and other times students have self-diagnosed, knowing that they have some learning differences. In my new book, I address over a hundred issues to help the full range of students, and here I will specifically focus on how to best support your student with ADHD.

1. Understand what the college experience actually is.

It’s important to remember and to convey to your child that above all, college is a process for figuring out how to learn, how to think, and how to manage life. That means that this is an ongoing process that can’t be fully figured out and determined before college as much as we........

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