I've always known about the ability of music to focus the ADHD brain since I started writing seriously in high school. Whenever I had a paper, essay, or story to write, I'd do it while listening to music. Not just any music: The music couldn't have words, had to have a certain tempo, had to last a while, and couldn't stop and...

I first saw her when I was 20 years old. She was sitting in a back room at an art gallery, and I was immediately drawn to her. As I approached the terracotta sculpture, the expression on her face struck me. It was serene and composed, and I instantly recognized it — not as something I had experienced, but as something I w...

First, the good news: the number of students with ADHD and/or LD attending college has increased exponentially in the past 30 years. Getting into college is only half the battle. All teens, especially those with ADHD and LD, need strategies to meet increased academic expectations and to live on their own.

A Tale of Two...

ADDitude has written lots of articles about the ways ADHDers can be better friends to their non-ADHD buddies: Do this and don't do that, try this, not that. Don't say this, say that. After all the tips, instruction, and how-tos, it seems fair that non-ADHDers should listen to what ADHDers are looking for in a good friend. It...

Brief Description: ELM is a whole-class intervention designed for kindergarten students. ELM supports the mathematics learning of all kindergarten students, and research results indicate improved mathematics performance for students with and without mathematics difficulties.

EBI Brief for Early Learning...

Brief Description: Mnemonicsare strategies and techniques that aid in memory.  A pegword mnemonic connects a number with a rhyming word that can be visually depicted. These visual images are then used to help students remember facts or events.

EBI Brief for Pegword Mnemonic

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The Behavior and Emotional Screening System is an instrument designed to assist school personnel and other care providers determine the behavioral and emotional strengths and weaknesses of students between the ages of 3 and 18. This instrument is part of the Behavior Assessment System for Children 2^nd Edi...

The SAEBRS is a brief tool supported by research for use in universal screening for behavioral and emotional risk. The measure falls within a broad class of highly efficient tools, suitable for teacher use in evaluating and rating all students on common behavioral criteria (Severson, Walker,...