Tips to manage ADHD during summer break
by Lisa Aro - The school days are numbered. Teachers, administrators, students, and parents are all counting the days with great excitement. What a great day that first day of summer vacation is, all...
View ArticleWays to improve the self-esteem of kids with ADHD
by Heather Gilmore - According to Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Associate Editor at Psych Central, children with ADHD can experience low self-esteem. Some of the staple characteristics of ADHD include...
View ArticleHelping kids with ADHD learn organizational skills
by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. - When it comes to school, we expect all kids to be organized. But we don’t realize just how complicated this really is, according to Elaine Taylor-Klaus, an educator and...
View ArticleGetting an ADHD diagnosis can be good news
by Pat Hagen - Most parents would dread their child being diagnosed with any type of illness. Yet for Karen Murphy, confirmation her son Nathan, 10, had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...
View ArticleADHD behaviors could be seen as valuable traits
by Richard A. Friedman - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is now the most prevalent psychiatric illness of young people in America, affecting 11 percent of them at some point between the ages...
View ArticleSchools still failing students with adhd
By Meredith Knight - After lunchtime in elementary school, I remember a handful of my fellow students would discretely visit he nurses office before heading back to homeroom. It was only a few years...
View ArticleAggressive boys increasingly put on antipsychotics
by Alan Schwarz – Every time Matthias is kicked out of a school or day camp for defying adults and clashing with other children, his mother, Joelle Kendle, inches closer to a decision she dreads. With...
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