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ADHD, IEPs & 504 Plans: How to Fight for Your Child at School | Vicki of Blue Glasses Advocacy

2026-11-0354:50

Ever walked into an IEP or 504 meeting feeling like you needed a law degree, a therapist, and a damn battle plan just to get your child the support they deserve? You're not alone. For parents raising kids with ADHD, autism, learning disabilities, and other neurodevelopmental differences, navigating the special education system can feel like a full-time job nobody applied for. And when your child is struggling at school, the last thing you need is another meeting where everyone talks in circle...

Why ADHD Kids Can’t “Just Do It”: Executive Function & School Success with Dan Levine

2026-10-2755:38

Why can an ADHD child understand exactly what they need to do—but still struggle to begin, organize, remember, or finish it? In this episode of Chaos & Caffeine: ADHD Parenting Podcast, Danielle Kelly sits down with Dan Levine, president and founder of Engaging Minds, to unpack the executive-function challenges affecting ADHD kids at school and at home. Dan explains why inconsistency is not the same as laziness, defiance, or a lack of motivation—and why planners, checklists, timers, folde...

ADHD Kids & School Success: Executive Function, Homeschooling & Finding What Works | Dr. Norrine Russell

2026-10-2047:19

Dr. Russell works with students with ADHD, autism, anxiety, learning differences, and executive functioning challenges—and she's also raised neurodivergent kids herself. We talk about what happens when bright, capable kids struggle in traditional school, why ADHD symptoms can be mistaken for laziness or lack of motivation, how executive functioning affects academic success, and why the answer isn't always pushing a child harder to fit into the same system. Dr. Russell also shares her family's...

Stop Being Your ADHD Kid’s Executive Function: School Success & Independence with Diane Dempster

2026-10-1348:59

If you’re raising a child with ADHD, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve accidentally become their executive function. You’re checking the homework. Remembering the deadlines. Finding the missing assignments. Packing the backpack. Watching the grades. Reminding them about the thing you already reminded them about twelve times. But how do we help ADHD kids succeed in school without managing every single thing for them? This week on Chaos & Caffeine, Danielle Kelly talks with Diane Dempster...

Your ADHD Kid Is Smart—So Why Are the “Easy” Things So Hard? | Gifted & 2e Kids with Mark Talaga

2026-10-0647:41

Your kid can understand something ridiculously complicated… but can't remember their homework, find their shoes, start a five-minute assignment, or handle a tiny change in plans without completely falling apart. How the hell can both things be true? This week on Chaos & Caffeine: ADHD Parenting Podcast, Danielle Kelly sits down with Mark Talaga, M.A., LPC, director and owner of the Center for Identity Potential and host of the Hopelessly Gifted Podcast, to talk about the complicated reali...

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