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Podcast: New Books in Disability Studies
Episode: Carol Gignoux, âYour Innovator Brain: The Truth About ADHDâ (Balboa Press, 2016)
Description: What exactly is ADHD, and is it time to update our ideas about it? In her new book, Your Innovator Brain: The Truth About ADHD (Balboa Press, 2016), Carol Gignoux turns our ideas about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder on their head and introduces a strengths-based rather than deficits-based perspective on this brain type.In her forty-plus years coaching individuals with ADHD, Gignoux has witnessed how ADHD stigma stymies these individualsâ creativity and self-esteem. They often adopt views of themselves predominated by what they canât do rather than what they can. But these âinnovators,â as she calls them, have uni...