Five Creative Approaches to Helping Students with ADHD

Understanding ADHD at its core is essential to determining the best course of action for students who have it. Though teachers find students who take medication for ADHD to be less disruptive and more attentive, it may not be the only effective way to treat this "difference in cognition" as Dr. Richard Friedman, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic at Weill Cornell Physicians, puts it. He doesn't consider ADHD a disorder. And, he wants to reframe the way we view ADHD and help us approach it in a more creative way.

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