At this time when everybody is trying to adjust to the issue of the Coronavirus and taking safety measures (such as wearing AccuMed Safety Face Shield with Glasses at all…
PARENTS AND TEACHERS: WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP ON BEHALF OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH ADHD
All of us who work with children and adolescents with ADHD in schools and colleges know full well how demanding they can be and the impact they make on our…
“It takes a village to raise the child”: Supporting parents of children with ADHD
This is a well-known African proverb in which an entire community of people need to interact for children to experience and grow in a safe and healthy environment. Although communities…
Conduct Disorder: Don’t care and catch me if you can.
Conduct disorder or CD is a term seldom mentioned in terms of the behaviour of children and adolescents. This is strange as terms such as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) Oppositional…
ADHD, PDB and School Exclusion: The Lost and the Cost
The exclusion of children from the school environment, either on a fixed-term or a permanent basis, is a disciplinary tool used in primary and secondary schools throughout the United Kingdom.…
Neurodiversity: Difference vs. Disorder
Neurodiversity is a term which was first coined in the late 1990s to describe conditions such as Dyslexia, Autism and ADHD as not deficits or disorders but rather more like…
Smart Drugs
There was a really interesting article in the TES recently called “Wise up to Smart Drugs” The main focus of the article was that would more students due to increasing…
Managing Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Date: Wednesday 2nd May 2018, 9.30am – 12.30pm & 1.30pm – 4.30pm Venue: Leighton Buzzard Golf Club A selection of additional comments from the reports: I liked that the course…
Exclusion Infusion
Every now again something happens in the Educational world that provides you with a degree of optimism that somebody might be listening to you. I have been greatly concerned for…
Good Mental Health
In the American sitcom Frasier the lead character played by Kesley Grammar signs off from his radio broadcast by wishing everyone “Good Mental Health” This US television show has been…