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390- Raising Socially Smart Tweens and Teens

ADHD Experts Podcast

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Lagging Social Executive Function Skills Are Not a Lack of Empathy

Lagging social executive function skills are not a lack of empathy. Lagging socialexecutive function skills does not mean that the child is mis diagnosed and actually has atism. Kids with eigh ch day often have more empathy than the general population, but they don't always show it because of their difficulty responding in a way that's expect d to somebody. And the last one is a propriate use of humour. I have never gone through a school year where i haven't had a parent reach out to me and say, my son got into some serious trouble because he made a joke at the lunch table about blowing up the school.

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