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Coping with ADHD & Heightened Emotions
Free printable exercise to use with adolescent & adult clients
People with ADHD feel both positive and negative emotions more intensely and frequently, and often for longer periods of time. With this exercise, clients can learn to respond to emotions mindfully, allowing them to better handle difficult situations.
Diet Wars: Overview of the Paleo Diet
Expert advice from a board-certified integrative and functional nutrition practitioner
It’s not just nutritionists who get nutrition questions… In this quick video from Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP, learn the origins, core foods, and efficacy of the paleo diet - all in under 5 minutes!
Initiation & Activation: 2 Exercises to Help Kids Focus
Strategies to Promote Success in Students with ADHD & Executive Function Challenges
Many students struggle to get started on tasks because they simply don't know how or where to begin. Help set them up for success with simple exercises from Cindy Goldrich, Ed.M., ADHD-CCSP, a mental health professional and certified ADHD coach.
Top 10 ADHD Resources for Clinicians, Parents & Clients for ADHD Awareness Month
Free Worksheets and Free CE Video Included!
October is ADHD Awareness month and PESI Publishing has a wealth of resources that can assist you on your journey in learning how to treat, manage, and overcome this disorder.
10 Rules for Managing ADHD in School
Plus 80 recommendations in an exclusive CE video & Worksheet...
Children and teens with ADHD have serious deficits in their executive functioning and self-regulation which can interfere with pursuing goals or contemplating multiple solutions. In dealing with these deficits, here are 10 specific rules to managing children and teens with ADHD in school.
Why We Must Think of Children—and our Nervous System—as Trees
Free Self-Regulation and Mindfulness Activity and Worksheets
Join Varleisha Gibbs, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, as she shares several transformative exercises for children and families challenged by sensory processing disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and various other neurodevelopmental disorders.
5 Free Resources for Teachers
We're celebrating National Teacher Day by offering teachers FIVE of our best school-and teaching-related worksheets and videos...for FREE!
Access each resource below and feel free to share these free activities with all your teacher friends and family. #ThankATeacher
Self-Regulation Strategies & Techniques for Children with Autism, ADHD, and Sensory Processing Disorder
Plus Earn 1 Free CE Hour
Join Teresa Garland, occupational therapist, international speaker, and author, as she shares over 35 of her most effective interventions.
Breath of Joy
A Yoga Practice for Children with ADHD
Sometimes children with ADHD just can't stop moving...Here's a quick and enjoyable strategy to help restore attention and focus.
4 Easy Steps to Calm a Stressed Child
If you work with children who struggle with self-regulation, mind-body strategies that use yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and guided imagery can be especially effective, and often fun, for the child to gain their composure. Use this activity, called The Steps, at home, in the grocery store, or wherever life takes you.