Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Mainstream Classroom Barbara Borosonʼs Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Mainstream Classroom: How to Reach and Teach Students with ASDs is an engaging, thoughtful and valuable resource for instructors, parents and administrators that enable them to reach, understand ...
When You’re the New Kid in School “So what’s your name new kid in school
tell me something do you feel lonely “
-- Song lyrics by The Donnas
Here comes September. You’ve been bracing yourself all summer. Here it is, the middle of your ...
Mistaken for ADHD After reading this book I believe the title says it all: “Mistaken for ADHD.” The author, Dr. Frank Barnhill, attempts to help parents, teachers, social workers and doctors who deal with adolescents and young children ...
Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong Intellectually we know that making a mistake gives us the opportunity to learn and grow. Still, that usually does little to assuage our shame, embarrassment and guilt when making an error. Of course, it depends ...
9 Ideas for Increasing Your Chances of Matching “The number of students seeking internships significantly outnumbers the availability of internship positions,” according to Sharon Berry, Ph.D, ...
Intelligence Linked to Bipolar Disorder Research has indicated that bipolar disorder may be up to four times more common in young people who were straight-A students.
A link between high IQ and bipolar disorder has been proposed for many years, ...
The Second Half of the Semester Midterms are over and you are now confronted with the state of your grades. Maybe you did okay or even more than ...
A Day at a Time: A Journal for Parents of Children with Autism Finally someone has stepped forward with a handy book that helps parents of children on the autistic spectrum organize their complex lives. Jen Merheb has created A Day at a Time: A Journal ...
14 Strategies for Sleeping Better For you the idea of sleeping well might be as far-fetched as a unicorn sighting. And in our productivity-driven society, sleep is usually the first thing ...
Teaching Children How to Adapt We try to create a world of structure and predictability for our children. We work hard to give them routines, a regular schedule and ...
A High School Project on Depression I tutor a number of students from my local high school, which offers a remarkable English course called Psychology and Literature. What an idea! Although I’d never heard of such a course at any other ...
Three Faces of Depression Is depression a single thing? It seems to me that depression has many faces.
One of the fascinating segments of my job as a private tutor ...
Might Schools Be Teaching ADHD? Tessa had the worst case of ADHD I’ve had to deal with in a long time. She was a high school junior who’d been ...
Depression in Students Students may be particularly vulnerable to depression, with rates at around 14 percent according to one study in Dublin, Ireland. The background rate among the general ...
Appreciating Our ADHD Students I’ve been sitting at a dining room table for almost two hours now, observing my son, Matt, as he works with a student. Matt’s ...
