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ADHD in Girls and Women: How Speech Therapy Can Help
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ADHD in Girls and Women: How Speech Therapy Can Help

The image of what ADHD “typically” looks like doesn’t include young girls or women. Girls are more likely to “do that they are told” because there are more consequences for girls (“boys will be boys” after all 🙃🙃🙃) when they don’t meet the higher expectations set for them than their male counterparts. 

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Hi, I’m Hollis, the owner of Mindful Speech.

I’m a speech-language pathologist licensed in Illinois and Colorado.

I specialize in providing speech therapy to help children, teens, and young adults to improve language, reading, writing, and executive functioning skills.

Learn more about me on my About Hollis page.

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