EPV 2025 SUMMER COURSE
ADHD in the Classroom
Understanding how ADHD impacts children, how this presents and how professionals can support these children
COURSE PRE-APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SKILLS
Course breakdown
10 hours on-demand video material and 10 hours offline learning
Online tutor moderation
Downloadable articles and resources
Access on mobile and desktop
Course Pre-approved for the Department of Education and Skills EPV Summer Course Certificate 2025
Full access to the course from the beginning so you can progress at your own pace
Course Goals:
Obtain awareness of the symptoms of ADHD in children
Understand the key psychological components of ADHD
Become equipped with effective exercises that can safely and easily be implemented
Learn how to support children with ADHD in the classroom
With over 8,000 online students, the Child Psychology Institute comes highly recommended as an EPV Summer Course Provider for Irish school teachers.
We also welcome secondary school teachers and SNAs to our summer courses.
ADHD In Children
How Teachers Can Identify and Support Children with ADHD
Research shows that approximately 3.5% of children exhibit full ADHD symptoms, leading to challenges in learning, behaviour and emotional well-being. Without appropriate support, they are at higher risk of self-harm and disengagement. Due to resource limitations in mental health services, many students do not receive timely intervention, often resulting in classroom disruptions that impact teaching and learning. This course equips teachers with essential skills to create an inclusive, structured, and engaging environment for students with ADHD.
At CPI, we believe it’s crucial for teachers to feel confident in supporting these children, especially in a world where help isn’t always readily available. It’s common to fear saying the wrong thing or feeling unprepared to handle such situations. That’s why this course will help you understand not just how to support your students, but also what they truly need. Most importantly, you’ll discover why having someone like you who truly sees them can make all the difference.
“Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.”
A. J. Darkholme
Incorporating a fully inclusive approach
LEARN TO EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE AND SUPPORT CHILDREN WITH ADHD
Through our EPV Summer Courses, we are always striving to be responsive to the needs of teachers so that we’re really creating meaningful content that will have a significant and lasting impact across your career. The topic of ADHD has been a controversial one, but it is one that keeps coming up. Whether or not a child has a diagnosis of ADHD is not important; what’s relevant is if you feel this child has poor attention, lots of energy in their body and is too easily distracted. In other words, if you find it difficult to teach a child with any/all of these issues, then this course will be extremely beneficial for you! It will be full to the brim of explanations, theory and practical strategies that you can easily implement in your classroom.
This course is ten hours of audio content, visual content and assessment in total, and there are ten hours of recommended reading and resources for you to further develop your own learning.
Course Dates
GROUP 1
July 1st - 15th 2025
GROUP 2
July 21st - Aug 4th 2025
GROUP 3
August 6th - 20th 2025
Meet Your Instructor
Dr Lorraine Lynch is the Clinical Director of the Child Psychology Institute (CPI). She holds a Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology from London Metropolitan University (LMU) and is accredited by the HCPC and BPS.
Her research thesis was based on the lived experience of children with Dyspraxia/Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) from the perspective of their parents. During her doctorate training, she completed placements in the private sector working on breastfeeding advocacy and support, and also within the NHS (Kidderminster Hospital, Birmingham) working on the promotion of digital health solutions.
Dr Lorraine has won numerous awards within the social innovation and enterprise space, receiving a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland award in 2014, Enterprise Ireland’s New Frontiers Award in 2021 and Network Ireland ‘Power Within Champion’ Award in 2022. Dr Lorraine is also the author of two books designed to promote children’s wellness – #100happydays4kids and Closing Saor’s Day.
Her most important role is a mother to three smallies, who serve as a constant reminder of how much potential exists within each child.
“It is essential that children meet adults who are responsive and understand how a child’s mind works so that they can truly blossom into happy successful adults.”
Course Aims
- Understand the key psychological components of ADHD
- Be able to identify the different types of ADHD and co-morbidities
- Be aware of the symptoms of ADHD in a typical child
- Know the neurobiology of ADHD
- Have a good understanding of how the brain responds to ADHD
- Have an awareness of how the body responds to ADHD
- Appreciate the immediate & long-term effects of ADHD on a child
- Understand the importance of appropriate therapy for the child with ADHD
- Know how to support children with ADHD in the classroom
- Be introduced to effective exercises that can safely and easily be implemented
FAQs
Each course is divided into three groups that are running on the following dates:
- Group 1: July 1st – 15th 2025
- Group 2: July 21st – Aug 4th 2025
- Group 3: Aug 6th – 20th 2025
The course starts and ends on each of the above dates. It is a completely self-paced online course – you decide when you complete tasks within your chosen course’s dates!
Yes, all work is monitored by our e-tutor team, which means that you will receive feedback and you will be notified if more detail is required.
All of our Summer Courses are just €99 per course. Pay just €175 for two courses or €250 for three!
Add the course and the date to your cart and the discount will automatically be applied. Remember, as per DES guidelines, you cannot complete two courses in the same time frame.
Our primary focus is on you learning and then supporting children with their emotional wellness. As a result, we place value on reflective learning. You’ll be asked to discuss your own understanding and experiences, as well as brief summaries of important topics. All assignments are less than 500 words.
We are obsessed with children’s wellness and our mission is to impart as much knowledge as we can on to the people who matter – the teachers and SNAs who are guiding, supporting and shaping our children every single day.
All of our courses have been developed with the most current research in the area of health and educational psychology. Students who have completed courses with us in the past keep coming back for more. Why? Because our customers complete courses that are jam-packed full of meaningful information and effective strategies that really do create change, not just across classrooms, but across careers!
We will be in touch before your course starts with login instructions. For now, enjoy the last term of school and we’ll see you in July/August for some summer learning!
