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Focus, starting, and ADHD

Most advice about focus is written for a brain that starts easily. This area is not. It covers what ADHD actually is, how to make a start when starting is the hard part, how to bring a future consequence close enough to feel, and how to stop paying for it in shame.

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Theme · Treatment and medication

Reading, numbers and learning differences 14 Screens and attention 5 Getting assessed and diagnosed 3 Treatment and medication 1

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 1

Approach · Core

Medical and treatment 12 ADHD skills 4 CBT 2 Core 1

About this theme

This explains how treatments work. Never start, stop or change a medication because of something you read here.

One social approach does have a real evidence base behind it, and what makes it different is who delivers it. Parents do the coaching, in the middle of actual play with actual friends.

In practice it looks small and ordinary. You set up a play date, you stay within earshot, you give a nudge before things tip over, and afterwards you…

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