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New School Year Can Raise ADHD Worries for Parents
The Houston Chronicle (TX)
School is a good place to gain insight into your child's behavior, but it is not the place for a diagnosis. At some point, plenty of parents will wonder, does my child have ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? Experts advise to first get a doctor's diagnosis.
The Times (NJ)
As a teenager at Franklin High School, Frances Deavereaux became close with a teacher who recognized her learning disability. But with the teacher's sudden death, Deavereaux gave up on literacy. Until recently, that is. She's now working with Literacy Volunteers of America, and making strides in her reading.
'Hidden' Flaws Can Turn Into Stars
The Daily Post (N.Z.)
Not all disabilities are visible, as Richard Gahan knows only too well. A learning disability hindered his ability to complete the paperwork required in this automotive industry apprenticeship program. The NZ Motor Industry Training Organisation recognized the problem, and worked with a nonprofit organization to assign a reader/writer to help with the written side of Gahan's apprenticeship commitments.
Even Background TV Can Impact Kids' Attention
USA Today
Pediatricians have long said children younger than 2 shouldn't watch any television. But in new findings from a small-scale study, researchers say that even having a TV on in the background could be "an environmental hazard" for children.
Heart Check Not Required for ADHD Meds
The News-Press (FL)
Dr. Andrew Oakes-Lottridge for Southwest Florida's News-Press fields a question from the mother of a child beginning ADHD medicine concerning the need for an Electrocardiogram (ECG).
Baltimore Sun
Almost 40 years ago, artificial food dyes had their moment in the sun. Now, synthetic dyes are getting a second run. New research indicates the chemicals can disrupt some children's behavior, and activists and consumer groups are asking for bans or limits on the dyes. A prestigious British medical journal recommended that doctors use dye-free diets as a first-line treatment for some behavior disorders; British regulators are pressuring companies to stop using the dyes and some are complying.
Are Children Diagnosed With ADHD More Likely to Be Overweight?
HealthNews
Each year in the United States, an increasing number of children and teens are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and each year the percentage of children and teens that are overweight increases. Could there be a link between the two? According to a study published in the July issue of Pediatrics, the answer is YES.
UK: Wales Plan to Beat Dyslexia
NewsWales
The National Assembly for Wales Enterprise and Learning Committee yesterday launched a report containing far-reaching recommendations on how best to provide support for people with dyslexia in Wales.
The New York Times
For more than a decade, parents of children with developmental and psychiatric problems have pushed to gain more access to mainstream schools and classrooms for their sons and daughters. One unfortunate result, some experts say, is schools' increasing use of precisely the sort of practices families hoped to avoid by steering clear of institutionalized settings: takedowns, isolation rooms, restraining chairs with straps, and worse.
Statins Show Little Benefit for Kids with Learning Disorder
U.S. News and World Report
New evidence suggests that a cholesterol-lowering drug widely prescribed for adults may not help children with a fairly common genetic disorder. Zocor (simvastatin) did not improve cognitive function in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a disorder which can involve learning disabilities.
Summer Learning Benefits Children with Disabilities
Springfield News-Sun (OH)
Parents of children with disabilities sometimes struggle with finding appropriate learning activities during the summer months, according to the Ohio Coalition for Education of Children with Disabilities. However, there are a variety of websites to help ensure that kids with disabilities don't experience loss over the summer months.
Library's Special Needs Center Receives Materials
The Stamford Times (CT)
The Connecticut Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities (CACLD) has presented Stamford's Ferguson Library Special Needs Center with a donation of materials that will further the Center's mission of serving parents of children with disabilities. The donation includes books and DVDs on learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder and related disorders, and materials that address lifespan issues ranging from early childhood to adulthood.
Israeli Start-Up Company May Have a Cure for Dyslexic Typos
Haaretz.com
There are problems in life that Microsoft can't solve for us, and one is spelling out of context. Type "My aidl holiday wood bee in nue zeelend, were I can go hickin" into Word and the software will be completely befuddled. Ginger Software's unique algorithm would look not at each word but at the sentence as a whole and come up with: "My ideal holiday would be in New Zealand, where I can go hiking." The software can even identify correctly spelled words that are used in the wrong context. Ginger Software founder and chief executive, Yael Karov, has learned that many people with dyslexia have stopped using spell checkers altogether.
Researchers Find Possible Genetic Clue To ADHD
National Public Radio
This week in the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists report that in two brothers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, a genetic change appears to make one of the brain's neurochemical pathways — the dopamine transporter — run in reverse. The result of that miswiring is that the brain acts as if amphetamines are always present, the researchers say.
University Offering New Special Ed Master's Degree
The Eagle-Gazette (OH)
Special education will be the focus of a new master's degree program offered at the Ohio University Lancaster Campus. The Master's of Education program is aimed at increasing the pool of special education teachers, especially in the Lancaster region. Program director Robin Schaffer said the high demand for special education teachers is exacerbated by a high turnover rate among those who are qualified.
Dyslexia School Gets $156K Grant
Hattiesburg American (MS)
Dynamic Dyslexia Design School in Petal, MS will receive a $156,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development program. U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran announced the news Friday stating that funds would be used to help modify the building the school will be housed in and to help purchase furnishings, equipment, and educational supplies.
"ADHD Moms" Online Community Offers Tools on Facebook
The Financial (Nation of Georgia)
In response to the rising trend of consumers seeking health information and everyday support online, McNeil Pediatrics, Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc, on July 9 announced the launch of the "ADHD Moms" online community housed on Facebook.
Testing Officials Again Tackle Accommodations And Exclusions for Special Student Populations
Education Week
Perhaps no topic has as thoroughly vexed officials who oversee the nation's leading test of academic progress as the wide variation among states and cities in the proportion of students with disabilities and limited English proficiency whom they exclude from taking the exam or provide with special accommodations for it.
Special Ed Students Could Be Exempt from Exit Exam
Whittier Daily News (CA)
It's been nine months since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have helped special education students get their diplomas without having to pass the California High School Exit Exam. Now, an exemption plan for the exit exam will come before him again this summer, only in a different form: SB 1446 by Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles.
ADHD Not a Lack of Intelligence, Psychologist Says
Upstate Today (SC)
Last week at a meeting of South Carolina's Oconee Alliance, school psychologist Bridget Briley didn't just talk about Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) — she let the audience experience the condition themselves. Attendees were asked to read a brief text, projected overhead, within a couple of minutes. The text, however, was interrupted every few seconds with flashing images. A soccer game. Windows. Bright white light. The effect made the assignment almost impossible. After time elapsed, the audience was asked to take a brief quiz. The result: failure.
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