Oct 29, 2017 byTeresa Sadowski MA CCC-SLP

Several years ago I took the Visualizing and Verbalizing course. It must have been a 3 or 4-day course. I didn’t take it directly from Lindamood Bell but from a local agency that was approved by Lindamood-Bell and used Visualizing and Verbalizing in their practice. I was h...

Most children lose some academic skills or regress over the long summer break. Students with serious learning or other disabilities who receive services under IDEA tend to lose even more academic ground during the break. These students may be entitled to Extended School Year (ESY) services over the summer (or during other...

A new high school in Washington, D.C., brings a radical approach to discipline — including allowing cursing by students. Should that behavior be tolerated? Or punished?

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Is ADHD real? Are medications really safe? Can adults have ADHD?

These far-too-common myths are unfair judgement of your behavior or parenting skills. While you already know you’re not doing anything wrong, how can you convince your family, friends, and those infuriating perfect strangers to believe it too? Start by...

The regulations governing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) state clearly that children “who are in need of special education and related services [must be] identified, located, and evaluated.” When parents request an evaluation because they believe their child has a disability, the school...

I call the default mode network (DMN) “the demon of ADHD.” The DMN is one of the most fascinating and significant discoveries to come out of neuroscience in the past 20 years, but most people haven’t heard of it.

The DMN seems to be more active in those of us who have ADHD, and it may explain our tendency to...

From about eighteen months to four years old, Briggs kept his meltdowns private. His behavior started small at first — random hitting for no reason, throwing temper tantrums, and what seemed like normal “terrible two” behavior, but on a cocktail of Adderall and Mountain Dew.

As he got older, his behavior grew...

A new national survey asked students about how they experience bullying in order to help educators try to stop it.

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October 26, 2017

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced last Friday that it will rescind 72 guidance documents aimed at clarifying the rights of students with disabilities, including those with ADHD.

The move was taken by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos after President Trump issued Executive Order 13777, which directed...

What has changed — and what hasn't — since President Obama called for a new approach amid a national debate over how much time students spend preparing for, and taking, standardized tests.

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In a national survey by UCLA researchers, teachers say they have students who are concerned for themselves and their families. And some teachers have seen a decline in classroom civility.

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Researchers aiming to understand why autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are more common in boys have discovered differences in a brain signaling pathway involved in reward learning and motivation that make male mice more vulnerable to an autism-causing genetic glitch. "One intriguing aspect...