Top Tips: Best resources for supporting kids with ADHD

We reached out to our online community for their favourite books, online resources and experts for understanding and supporting children with ADHD. We’ve compiled a list from the responses and hope it gives you some insight into the world of ADHD. Please note these resources are not personally endorsed/recommended by Maggie, but rather a community collaboration.

Also if you haven’t already, please listen to Maggie’s episode of Parental As Anything on Parenting Kids with ADHD.

Books

Square Me, Round World by Chelsea Luker

Fish In A Tree – by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

The Explosive Child (2014) by Ross W. Greene

Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate

Lost at School by Dr Ross Greene

Dr Russell A. Barkley books

Beyond Behaviors (2019) by Mona Delahooke

ADHD Go-to Guide (2017) by Desiree Silva & Michele Toner

What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew (2018) bu Dr. Sharon Saline

Organising Solutions for People with ADHD (2012) by Susan Pinsky

Fridays with Tristan: Understanding ADHD from a Mentoring Perspective (2019) by Grace da Camara

What Lies Beneath Workbooks, published by UWA Press and developed by Safe Zone Counselling to help guide participants through the OnTrac program material or also useful as stand-alone resources.

Smart but Scattered (2009) Peg Dawson & Richard Guare

Dr Patricia O. Quinn books

Sam Squirrel has ADHD (2020) Selina Lee

My Friend Manny by Jodie Adams

Wiggles Stomps and Squeezes Calm My Jitters Down. by Lyndsey Rowe Parker

Some Brains: A book celebrating Neurodiveristy by Nelly Thomas

The Brain Forest by Sandhya Menon

Winston Wallaby can’t stop bouncing by Kay Al-Ghani, Joy Beaney

Captain Underpants – by Dav Pilkey