What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew

Outline

What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew (2018) helps parents see the world through the eyes of children with ADHD. Sharon Saline draws on interviews with young people and her clinical experience to explain the challenges these children face with attention, emotions, and organisation. She offers a practical approach built on connection, empathy, collaboration, and consistency to help children succeed at home and at school.

• Children with ADHD struggle with attention, emotions and organisation, and seeing the world through their eyes helps parents respond with understanding instead of frustration.
• Sharon Saline draws on interviews with young people and her clinical experience, so the advice reflects what these children actually say about their daily lives.
• Her approach rests on four ideas: connection, empathy, collaboration and consistency.
• The goal is practical: helping children with ADHD succeed both at home and at school.

Sharon Saline is an American clinical psychologist who specialises in ADHD, learning differences, and mental health in children and families. She works with families, schools, and professionals and speaks internationally about supporting children with ADHD. What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew is her best-known book.