Today is the official publication date for my new book The Myth of the ADHD Child, Revised Edition: 101 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Behavior and Attention Span Without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion (Tarcher/Perigee). The above link is for ordering it through Amazon, but you can get it at your local bookstore, or through a...Read More
I’ve got a new post on the Penguin Random House reading site ”Brightly” that shares a number of tips for parents to get their kids ready for the academic school year. Some of the tips include: talking about goals, fears, hopes for the coming school year, watching movies on school themes as a jumping off...Read More
I read an online article today from Benzinga, a financial media company that empowers its readers with daily actionable market analysis and commentary. It reported on a new ADHD drug that the FDA had just approved, called Cotempla XR-OTD, a methylphenidate extended release orally-disintegrating tablet for treating ADHD in kids aged 6-17. According to BMO...Read More
A new study of Scottish children published in the JAMA Pediatrics this week, suggests that the 1.0% of subjects (N= 7413) that were being medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder had poorer outcomes on a wide range of measures compared with others in the study (N=766,244). The outcomes included: poor academic attainment, unauthorized absence from...Read More
I have a new article on the site MiddleWeb, which focuses on the importance of understanding recent brain research and how it can inform the creation of ”brain friendly” practices for young adolescents. I was a junior high school teacher, a professor of courses in childhood and adolescent development, and a consultant to middle schools,...Read More
This is a blog post that appeared on ASCD’s InService blog, April 19, 2017. It talks about an article I wrote for the April, 2017 issue of Educational Leadership entitled Neurodiversity: The Future of Special Education? ”I was a special education teacher for several years back in the 1970s and 1980s. Although I’d been trained at...Read More
I’ve been concerned about the lack of input that children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD have relating to their diagnosis and treatment. Now a new study in the May 2017 issue of the Community Mental Health Journal reports that children with a diagnosis of ADHD want to talk with their doctors about their diagnosis and the...Read More
A study in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry last month reported that”extended use of medication [for ADHD] was associated with suppression of adult height but not with reduction of symptom severity.” So basically, it stunts growth and it isn’t effective. So why isn’t there a bigger hue and cry about this? There are...Read More
An opinion piece in yesterday’s New York Times really made a deep impression on me as an educator. It was written by Libyan novelist Hisham Matar, and entitled: ‘‘Books Can Take You Places Donald Trump Doesn’t Want You to Go.” Mattar writes about how books can help us ”stumble upon ourselves in the lives and...Read More
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