"Attention Difference Disorder":
Unwrapping the Gift of ADHD for Children and Teens
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Kenny Handelman, MD, FRCP(C), DABPN |
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| Date: | Monday, May 28, 2012 | ||
| Time: | 9:00 am to 4:30 pm | ||
| Location: | Koffler House/Multi-Faith Centre, University of Toronto 569 Spadina Avenue, Toronto (Click here for directions.) |
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| Fee: | $189 (+ HST) up to Apr. 12 $199 (+ HST) after Apr. 12 (Please see Fees page for multiple-registration discounts.) |
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With extensive clinical experience in treating and consulting on ADHD, Kenny Handelman, best-selling author of Attention Difference Disorder, returns to Leading Edge with practical and effective strategies to address the challenges of this often complicated condition. His succinct yet comprehensive teachings speak to the breadth of his knowledge on all aspects of the disorder, from organicity to diagnosis, treatment, and comorbidities.
Working from a strengths-based perspective, you will learn seven steps for ADHD treatment for children and teens. The workshop will review the essential knowledge base about ADHD, including how to properly assess for it. Dr. Handelman will then present strategies for parenting and school as well as the most up-to-date information about medication and evidence-based alternative treatments. Lastly, he will discuss treatment integration.
This workshop will offer tools and specific strategies that you can take back to your office, clinic, or class, to help ADHD kids and teens right away. You will learn how to help kids and teens to “unwrap the gifts” of their ADHD.
You will learn —
- The newest brain research in ADHD
- Tools for diagnosing ADHD
- How comorbid conditions complicate and interact with the assessment and treatment of ADHD
- Parenting strategies for kids and teens with ADHD
- School strategies which can help ADHD students succeed
- Evidence-based alternative treatments for ADHD
- Updates to medication for ADHD – including the current treatments available and the newer medicines coming to Canada soon
Kenny Handelman, MD, FRCP(C), DABPN, is a child and adult psychiatrist and an expert in ADHD. He is the author of the best-selling book Attention Difference Disorder. He has extensive clinical experience working at the Halton Healthcare Hospital, and is also an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Handelman teaches internationally about ADHD. He maintains several websites on ADHD which provide up-to-date information to over 700,000 web visitors each year. For more information, visit www.attentiondifferencedisorder.com.