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Attention Deficit Disorder Can Make Work Difficult
The Vancouver Sun (Canada)
People with ADD can benefit from disclosing their learning disability at work, but people should make the decision carefully. Fortunately, there are plenty of strategies people with ADD can employ at work to manage things more effectively.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
WSOCtv.com (NC)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a condition characterized by problems paying attention, hyperactivity and impulsive behaviors. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 4.4 million school children (4 to 17) have been diagnosed with ADHD. It's three times more common in boys than in girls.
Attention Deficit Presented From a Mother's Perspective in 'Distracted'
The Grand Rapids Press (MI)
Written by Lisa Loomer and presented off-Broadway in 2009, "Distracted" is the story of a family whose 9-year-old son is acting out, refuses to go to bed at night, and is disruptive at school. The parents are inundated with solutions from teachers, therapists, and friends ranging from pills to diet, biofeedback and homeopathic treatments. "It's told from the point of view of the mother," director Fred Sebulske said. "She knows the audience is there and uses them as a sounding board. She always has someone to talk to."
Attention Problems, Except for Screens
The New York Times
Why is it that children with attention deficit problems at school can be held in rapt attention by a video game or television program?
A child’s ability to stay focused on a screen, though not anywhere else, is actually characteristic of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. There are complex behavioral and neurological connections linking screens and attention, and many experts believe that these children do spend more time playing video games and watching television than their peers.
Attention-Deficit Child Deserves to Have Choices
Washington Post
The concerned mother of an 8-year-old child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder writes into advice columnist Marguerite Kelly about allowing her child to go to a sleepover. The mother says, "My daughter is invited to a sleepover and I have to say no, since she takes her medicine at night and first thing in the morning and is too young to medicate herself. How do I politely decline this invitation? How can I explain it to my daughter?"
Attention-Deficit Disorder Linked to Obesity
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
"Obese people are three to five times more likely to have [ADD] than the regular population. And if you treat them, you will see a significant weight loss," claims physician Lance Levy. Levy and his co-authors — psychologist John Fleming and dietitian Doreen Klar — have just published their groundbreaking research in the International Journal of Obesity, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal.
Attention-Deficit Drugs Face New Campus Rules
The New York Times
"Various studies have estimated that as many as 35 percent of college students illicitly take these stimulants to provide jolts of focus and drive during finals and other periods of heavy stress. Many do not know that it is a federal crime to possess the pills without a prescription and that abuse can lead to anxiety, depression and, occasionally, psychosis."
"Although few experts dispute that stimulant medications can be safe and successful treatments for many people with a proper A.D.H.D. diagnosis, the growing concern about overuse has led some universities, as one student health director put it, 'to get out of the A.D.H.D. business.'"
Audiobooks May Improve Reading Scores
Tales2Go
"Brett Cooper, a fifth grade teacher at Lewiston Elementary School in Columbia County, GA, wrote a white paper titled, "Listen up - using audio books to help improve reading." Cooper measured marked student improvement in reading scores as a result of introducing audio books to a classroom reading period each day."
Audit Critical of Special Education at HISD
Houston Chronicle
Black students and high schoolers who aren't native English speakers are too often funneled into special education, while dyslexic students who need the extra help are left to flounder, according to a critical study of the Houston Independent School District's special education department.
Audit Reveals Progress, Needs For Special Education
Alexandria Times (VA)
When a group of independent observers reviewed the Alexandria City Public Schools' special education system this past spring, they saw shades of 1995. Born out of last year's news that special education within ACPS was out of compliance, the study — conducted by a team from the Virginia Association of School Superintendents — cited several areas in which the schools could improve and recognized some programs that are already having a positive effect.
Audit: San Francisco Schools Outdated on Special Ed
San Francisco Chronicle
The $122 million San Francisco schools spend on its 6,300 special education students fails to consistently address the needs of those children, too often needlessly segregating them in special classrooms and disproportionately diagnosing disabilities based on race, an independent audit found.
Australia: Link between ADHD and Genes Probed
Brisbane Times (Australia)
Australian neuroscientists will launch a study this month to investigate links between genes and children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). More than 600 families will be studied by researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute, the Mater Children's Hospital Brisbane, Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital and Curtin University of Technology to understand better what causes ADHD.
Australia: Mum's Insight Key in Dyslexia Battle
The Age (Australia)
As a mother of three children with dyslexia, Liz Dunoon is used to dealing with the learning difficulty — but she remembers how her first encounter with it broke her heart. Despite his best efforts and hard work, her elder son, then aged 6, struggled with reading, writing and spelling when he started school in 2004.
Australia: Seeking a New Deal on Dyslexia
The Age (Australia)
A nation as self-confident as Australia doesn't expect to receive lessons in advanced education practices from such humble places as Irvinestown, a small village two hours west of Belfast in Northern Ireland. Yet that's what Nola Firth found this year when she visited the 250 students at the village's St Paul's Primary School, where sophisticated and effective strategies were being used to deal with dyslexia. St Paul's is one of many schools in the UK that have been awarded dyslexia friendly status by the British Dyslexia Association.
Australia: Spelling It Out For You
The Age (Australia)
Automatic spell checking in word-processing programs is now accepted as an essential part of accurate writing and most users appreciate it picking up typing errors, duplicated words, incorrect capitalization and similar errors. For people with dyslexia spell checking is absolutely essential, but it holds some challenges.
Australia: Why is ADHD so Under-Diagnosed and Treated?
ABC News (Australia)
The child and adolescent component of the 2000 National Mental Health Survey reported a rate of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) of about 6 per cent, essentially identical to a recent analysis of data from throughout the world. Yet the highest rates of medication for ADHD in Australia are no more than about 1.5 per cent. What is happening to the other 75 per cent of young people whose lives and those of their families are impaired by ADHD? Are they even being identified, far less receiving behavioral or other intervention?
Author Jack Gantos Visiting Cape Girardeau, Jackson Schools
Southeast Missourian (MO)
In the first grade, Jack Gantos was in the lowest reading group. Now he is a successful author who enjoys spending time in middle schools reading in an abandoned bookmobile. His Joey Pigza books, which feature a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, have brought him the most attention.
Author Jackie Tells of Battle with Dyslexia
Ross-shire Journal (Scotland)
An inspirational Ross-shire children's author, who has battled dyslexia all her life, is urging local youngsters to get their creative juices flowing. Sixty-year-old Jackie Wood's Scatwell Rabbits series of illustrated books have sold more than 1,000 copies. She urged youngsters, "If you have a problem reading you should let people know as there are many things that can be done to help you."
Author Profiles Role Models Who Learn Differently
NY1
NY1's Parenting correspondent Shelley Goldberg talks with Jill Lauren, a learning specialist who profiles role models who overcame learning disabilities in her new book "That's Like Me!"
Author, Psychiatrist to Speak On ADD/ADHD
Naperville Sun (IL)
A world-renowned author, psychiatrist and attention deficit expert will be the guest speaker for two free community presentations highlighting the topic of ADD/ADHD. NCO Youth and Family Services announces Dr. Larry Silver will help to launch its new ADD/ADHD Choices and Challenges program.
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