November 2nd 8-9 PM EST - Off You Go! Strategies for Promoting Healthy Independence in Neurodivergent Young Adults with Sharon Saline, PsyD.

Dr. Sharon Saline is the author of the award-winning book What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life, and The ADHD Solution Card Deck. She specializes in working with ADHD and neurodivergent children, teens, adults, and families, helping them improve anxiety, cognitive and executive functioning skills, resilience, self-confidence, and personal relationships. She consults with schools, clinics, and businesses internationally. Dr. Saline is an instructor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, a part-time lecturer at the Smith College School for Social Work, a blogger for PsychologyToday.com, a contributing expert on MASS Live at WWLP TV, and serves on the editorial board of ADDitudemag.com.

Watching your young adult move toward independence can bring excitement, worry, frustration, and uncertainty. You want them to become responsible, capable adults, but it's not always clear when to offer support and when to step back. For young adults with ADHD, autism, learning differences, or co-occurring anxiety, the transition to adulthood can be especially challenging. Executive functioning, motivation, emotional regulation, and self-confidence challenges can interfere with managing daily responsibilities, pursuing education or employment, and making decisions. Parents may find themselves caught between wanting to help and feeling frustrated by their young adult's resistance.

In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline will explain how parents can foster connected independence, balancing growing autonomy with appropriate family support. She will offer practical strategies to strengthen executive functioning skills, build resilience, encourage self-advocacy, and reduce family power struggles. You'll learn how to shift from reminding and rescuing to collaborating and coaching, establish realistic expectations and boundaries, and help your young adult take meaningful steps toward greater responsibility. Discover how to support your young adult's independence while maintaining a positive, respectful relationship.

Learning Objectives. Participants will learn how to:
Understand how neurodivergence, executive functioning challenges, and co-occurring anxiety affect the transition to adulthood.
Apply practical strategies to strengthen self-management, decision-making, self-advocacy, and confidence in everyday responsibilities.
Use connected independence to balance parental support with growing autonomy, establish appropriate boundaries, and reduce family conflict.