New Webinar: These Are My Needs: How to Foster Self-Advocacy Skills in Students with LDs and ADHD
Date & TimeApril 2, 20263:45 PM to 4:30 PM Description Developing self-advocacy skills is essential for students with LDs and ADHD to succeed in school and beyond. This webinar explores practical strategies to help students understand their strengths and needs, build confidence, and take an active role in their learning. Participants will learn how to support self-understanding, connect learning profiles to IEPs and accommodations, and foster the skills students need to become confident, independent self-advocates. PresentersCandice Daiken and Gillian GoldsmithRegional Assessment and Resource Centre (RARC), Queen’s University 👉 Registration 👉 Learn more
New Webinar: These Are My Needs: How to Foster Self-Advocacy Skills in Students with LDs and ADHD
View the full transcript (accessible PDF). About the Webinar: Developing self-advocacy skills in our students with LD and/or ADHD is essential to their success in all levels of school and beyond. As educators and parents, we need to work with our students at every age and grade to help them build the foundational skills to become self-advocates. More than just speaking up and asking for help, students need to understand their strengths and needs, feel a sense of belonging and purpose, believe in their own abilities, and hone their self-advocacy skills. This presentation will explore these concepts more deeply [...]
White noise may be as effective as drugs for ADHD
Paul Taylor – Globe and Mail Update Published Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, are often prescribed powerful medications to help them stay focused in school. But adding white noise to a classroom may be just as effective as drugs at aiding learning among these pupils, suggest the surprising results of a Scandinavian study. The research, led by Goran Soderlund of Stockholm University was carried out on 51 students at a secondary school in Norway. The children were first assessed for their ability to pay attention in class. They were then given a test [...]
Researchers say having ADHD may actually help people think outside the box
A new study, published in the April 2011 issue of Personality and Individual Differences, suggests that individuals with ADHD are more creative than those who do not have ADHD. Researchers gave 60 college students, half with ADHD, a series of tests measuring creativity across 10 domains — drama, music, humor, creative writing, invention, visual arts, scientific discovery, dance, architecture and culinary arts. The students also answered questions about their problem-solving styles, including preferences for generating, structuring, refining and implementing ideas. The ADHD group scored higher on creativity across the board, the study authors said, and also exhibited a greater preference [...]
Adults with ADHD commit fewer crimes when on medication
NEJM PRESS RELEASE, 22 November 2012 Criminal behaviour in people with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) dropped sharply during periods when they were on medication, according to a new extensive registry study conducted at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The study that contained of over 25,000 individuals is published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). While previous research has shown that people with ADHD are more likely to enter a life of crime, it has remained uncertain how ADHD medication affects this risk. After having studied over 25,000 individuals with ADHD from different registries over a four-year period (2006-2009), [...]
Functional MRI Reveals Distinct ADHD Impairments
In another study released in November 2017, 117 adolescents with ADHD were assessed for different types of impulsive behavior. Three distinct groups emerged based on their performance: one group demonstrated impulsive motor responses during fast-moving visual tasks (a measure of executive function); another group showed a preference for immediate reward; and a third group performed relatively normally on both tasks as compared with 134 non-ADHD adolescents. The 3 ADHD subgroups were almost indistinguishable in terms of clinical symptoms. Researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate how these different impulsivity-related test profiles related to brain dysfunction. Each subgroup [...]
MRI shows brain differences among ADHD patients
A study released in November 2017 by the Radiological Society of North America used MRI to compare brains of 83 children, ranging in age from of 7 to 14, with newly diagnosed and never-treated ADHD (inattentive ADHD subtype and combined subtype). Researchers compared brain MRI results with those of a control group of 87 healthy, similarly aged children. No overall difference was found between ADHD and controls in total brain volume or total gray and white matter volumes. However, changes in the shape of three brain regions (left temporal lobe, bilateral cuneus and areas around left central sulcus) contributed significantly [...]
Stress Management for Parents of Kids with ADHD
Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity are key features of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a life-long neurodevelopmental disorder most often diagnosed in childhood. In addition to experiencing difficulties in school, work, and social areas, one-third of kids with ADHD also meet the criteria for a diagnosable learning disorder. These challenges have widespread effects and often require complex interventions and support. Very few people are more familiar with the widespread effects of ADHD than parents of children with this disorder. If this is you, then you know that while parenting is both a challenging and infinitely rewarding experience, it can also be very stressful! [...]
Pacing Body, Racing Mind: Employment and ADHD
Author: Carter Hammett “Having LD and ADHD allows you to create. I did lots of research on famous people with LD. What binds most is that they have to think of other ways of exploring their path. Teachers are a big influence as well, both positive and negative. One in high school said I’d never finish college. I think people gave me ammunition to get through things.” -David, 31, Photographer So it’s a beautiful summer day and you’re on lunch break, walking down the street talking to a friend. All around you, the streets are teaming with life. There are [...]
Assessing for ADHD in Adults
Estimates vary, but it is believed that up to 80 per cent of those with ADHD also have a learning disability. In the LD population, it is estimated that 30 to 40 per cent also have ADHD, so clearly the conditions are highly related. One of the main links between these two diagnoses is the fact that attentional deficits themselves can be one of the underlying information processing difficulties that gives rise to academic problems. In other words, problems with attention can be so pronounced as to interfere with the acquisition of reading, writing, or mathematical skills. Similar to LD, [...]