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Sunday, May 26, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Study supports restricted diet for kids with ADHD
By Kate Kelland
Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should be fed a special diet to help their carers determine whether certain foods are making their condition worse, Dutch scientists said on Friday.
Read more:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/us-adhd-diet-idUSTRE7130AI20110204
LONDON |
Thu Feb 3, 2011 7:56pm EST
(Reuters) -Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should be fed a special diet to help their carers determine whether certain foods are making their condition worse, Dutch scientists said on Friday.
Read more:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/us-adhd-diet-idUSTRE7130AI20110204
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Learning Disabilities - EEG biofeedback for reading disability
By Kirtley E. Thornton, PhDa,*, Dennis P. Carmody, PhDb
Center for Health Psychology, Suite 2A, 2509 Park Avenue, South Plainfield, NJ 07080,
Institute for the Study of Child Development, Department of Pediatrics,
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ
› Edited/adapted from a longer article that also discussed traumatic brain injury, by David Dubin, MD
Reading disabilities
Prevalence and costs
Reading disabilities present major challenges to the educational system. The estimated prevalence rate for learning disabilities is 15% of the student population [1], with 6.5 million children requiring special education in 2002 [2]. The federal government spent $350 billion over a 20-year period on special education programs [4], and New York City spends $55,300 per year for each incarcerated youth [3].Read more:
http://thedubinclinic.com/learning-disabilities-treatment-los-angeles/
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The Essential Skill of Self-Control, By Leah Davies, M.Ed.
Self-control is restraint practiced over one's own emotions, impulses,
or desires. It is the ability to make positive choices, to think before
acting. Without self-control, students say and do things impulsively
which often leads to trouble. Children need to be taught to pause and
think of the consequences that may result from their various behaviors.
It is critical for educators to model self-discipline. For example, if you feel yourself losing control of your class, you may want to take a deep breath and calmly say, "When you talk out-of-turn, I feel frustrated because I can't hear what each one of you has to say." By controlling your own words and actions, you are demonstrating to your students a healthy way to react to stress.
Read more:
http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherArticles/TeacherTip17.html?goback=.gde_1371027_member_242228329
It is critical for educators to model self-discipline. For example, if you feel yourself losing control of your class, you may want to take a deep breath and calmly say, "When you talk out-of-turn, I feel frustrated because I can't hear what each one of you has to say." By controlling your own words and actions, you are demonstrating to your students a healthy way to react to stress.
Read more:
http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherArticles/TeacherTip17.html?goback=.gde_1371027_member_242228329
Monday, May 20, 2013
The Most Important Book Ever Published on School Bullying. Bully Nation makes it crystal clear why we must end our anti-bully crusade.
Published on March 7, 2013 by Izzy Kalman in A Psychological Solution to Bullying

Read more:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychological-solution-bullying/201303/the-most-important-book-ever-published-school-bullying
Friday, May 17, 2013
Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD
Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD
Read more:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/suffer-the-children/201203/why-french-kids-dont-have-adhd?fb_action_ids=10200571130493665&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={%2210200571130493665%22%3A10150652026799798}&action_type_map={%2210200571130493665%22%3A%22og.likes%22}&action_ref_map=[]
French children don't need medications to control their behavior.
Published on March 8, 2012 by Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. in Suffer the Children
In the United States, at least 9% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD,
and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France, the percentage of
kids diagnosed and medicated for ADHD is less than .5%. How come the
epidemic of ADHD—which has become firmly established in the United
States—has almost completely passed over children in France?Read more:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/suffer-the-children/201203/why-french-kids-dont-have-adhd?fb_action_ids=10200571130493665&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={%2210200571130493665%22%3A10150652026799798}&action_type_map={%2210200571130493665%22%3A%22og.likes%22}&action_ref_map=[]
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Just Add Light and Stir: Clarity in motion
Just Add Light and Stir: Clarity in motion: Flow is learning to go fast in a calm way. Flow is clarity while in motion. The opposite of flow might be "stuckness"—being immo...
Just Add Light and Stir: Another planet
Just Add Light and Stir: Another planet: For some people, it scares them so much that it feels almost like they're moving to another planet and can never come back. It's ...
Friday, May 3, 2013
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