Orchard Parent University
Dr. David Parker, Ph.D. will be presenting about anxiety and ADHD in regards to how it impacts students' learning and life functions. The presentation will last approximatly one hour. There will be a 30 minute discussion session following.
Dr. David R. Parker is a postsecondary disability specialist and ADD/life coach at CRG (Children’s Resource Group) in Indianapolis, IN, where he provides strategy instruction, life coaching, and transition-to-college services to high school and college students with LD, ADHD, and ASD. He earned a Ph.D. in Special Education at the University of Connecticut. Three decades of work with bright students with disabilities have included positions as a high school special education teacher, director of a private school for students with dyslexia, administrator of LD/ADHD programs at UNC-Chapel Hill and UCONN, and program manager of a National Science Foundation STEM/UDI grant project at Washington University in St. Louis. He has conducted training on best practices for college students with ADHD in Italy, Japan, Austria, and Kuwait. Dr. Parker helped conduct the first national study of ADD college coaching through Wayne State University. A board member of four peer reviewed journals and former executive editor of the Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, Dr. Parker is the author of numerous research articles, book chapters, and three books. Along with Sharon Field, he recently co-edited Promoting Self-Determination in Higher Education: A Key to Retention, Graduation and Post-Graduation Success (AHEAD, 2016).
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