Episode

ADHD Evidence Project, with guest Stephen Faraone Ph.D. – you need to know about this! 

Inaccurate and negatively-biased information about ADHD bombards us from all sides and sad to say, most of it is just plain wrong. Selected stories about negative effects of medications, presenting statistics in a way that magnifies negatives, repeating outdated beliefs which have no basis in fact, examples are too numerous to count. 

The ADHD Evidence Project – adhdevidence.org – is an indexed collection of research from around the world… Read More …which supports the International Federation of ADHD Consensus Statement of 2021, authored by 80 researchers from around the world.  The ADHD Evidence Project was founded by Dr. Stephen Faraone,  one of the foremost researchers in the field of ADHD over the past 30 years. The goal of the ADHD Evidence Project is to improve the lives of people with ADHD by selecting, organizing, distributing, and promoting well-researched and evidence-based conclusions about the disorder to patients, families, and clinicians. 

Join Dr. Faraone and I as we dive into the backstory of the Project and show how it makes accurate and reliable information about ADHD available to you. Listen and learn!

Do you (if you have ADHD) find it is easier to “think out loud”, to process your thoughts by talking them over with someone? Or even just a rubber duck perhaps? If you know someone with ADHD, have you noticed that they tend to talk through their thoughts? There is good neuroscience and “ADHD science” to explain why it works so well, much of it rooted in Dr. Russell Barkley’s model of Executive Functions. Some of the toughest challenges for people with ADHD are solving problems which have many parts and are ambiguous. The goal of accommodations at work or school, to make it easier to try harder to think like a neurotypical person, are not ideal. What if that were turned upside down, and the accommodations enabled people with ADHD to use their brains in the way they function best?

My guest today is Jeff Copper, ADHD Coach Extraordinaire, known for his ability to dig deeper and find root causes of impairments so they can be resolved. He is a Professional ADHD Coach, certified by two ADHD Coaching organizations, consultant, speaker, and enthusiastically committed to being a valuable resource for persons with or affected by ADHD. Jeff has developed a model of how to accommodate the ADHD-thinking brain which respects and preserves its amazing quality of associative thinking: Cognitive Ergonomics.

This is cutting edge info, a new way of helping those of us with ADHD brains problem-solve in the ways our brains work best! Listen and Learn!

Check out our video chat!

Find out more about Jeff’s work at www.digcoaching.com,
in his podcast on Attention Talk Radio: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/attention-talk-radio–6403326
And on Attention Talk Video: https://www.youtube.com/attentiontalkvideo?themeRefresh=1
Note: use this link to access the chart we discuss in the podcast: https://digcoaching.com/PDF/ExecutiveFunctionEngagementContinuum.pdf