ADHD Ireland aim to make life better for those living with ADHD and their families.
We have created a number of podcasts to help to educate on various areas of life with ADHD.
Our series includes: Teen Talks with ADHD Ireland This series of talks takes place with a number of Irish teenagers with ADHD. We chat to them about life during lockdown over the past few months and how they feel about changes they have had to make in their lives.
Back to School Podcast Gwen Cantwell, of Boost OT Ireland, an occupational therapist with over 20 years experience and extensive post graduate training in a variety of settings and needs. She has developed her ADHD expertise over her 16 years working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, supporting parents, children and teens with ADHD to make practical, functional changes to boost their lives! She joins us today to discuss how to support your child with ADHD in the return to school, from her unique perspective as an OT and as a mother of a child with ADHD.
Gwen Cantwell, of Boost OT Ireland, is an occupational therapist with
over 20 years experience and extensive post graduate training in a
variety of settings and needs. She has developed her ADHD expertise
over her 16 years working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Services, supporting parents, children and teens with ADHD to make
practical, functional changes to boost their lives! She joins us today to
discuss how to support your child with ADHD in the return to school, from
her unique perspective as an OT and as a mother of a child with ADHD.
As part of our Teen Talks series, we chat to Moe from Tralee, Co Kerry, aged 13 years. Moe chats to us about life during lockdown and how things have changed for him during the recent pandemic.
In this episode, we chat to Lukka who has ADHD and is aged 13 and from Dublin. Lukka tells us about how her ADHD was actually worsened from the lockdown.
In this episode of Teen Talks we chat to Diego about how life has been over the past few months during the COVID-19 lockdown, as a 14 year old with ADHD.
In this next episode of Teen Talks, we chat to 13 year old Sean who has ADHD and is from Dublin. Sean has just finished primary school during lockdown and chats to us about how he misses the structure of school and the support of his teachers.
This is the first in our series of chats with Irish teenagers about life during COVID-19. This is a chat with Joe who just finished 5th year in secondary school and has ADHD.