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- Schools Must Do More to Involve Parents, Students in IEP ProcessFebruary 2, 2012, 2:00 pm- Parents and students with disabilities aren't as involved in the process of mapping out their goals with schools as much as they should be, although federal law intends for parents and school staff to work together on these plans, a new study finds.
- Help Your ADHD Child Click with CliquesFebruary 2, 2012, 2:00 pm- Help your ADHD child connect with peers and develop a strong social circle with these four strategies for building lasting friendships.
- Workshops Help Prepare Students with Learning Disabilities for CollegeFebruary 2, 2012, 2:00 pm- Something changes when students with disabilities make the transition from high school to college. The burden of education shifts from school to student. That point was made clear for about 500 college-bound seniors with learning disabilities, as the Clark County School District's Student Support Services Division hosted three days of workshops at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for students from every high school.
- Brain Scans Spot Early Signs of DyslexiaJanuary 26, 2012, 2:00 pm- Instead of waiting for a child to experience reading delays, scientists now say they can identify the reading problem even before children start school, long before they become labeled as poor students and begin to lose confidence in themselves.
- Special Educators Borrow from Brain StudiesJanuary 26, 2012, 2:00 pm- While some educators remain skeptical, brain research is slowly migrating from the lab into the classroom, both in predicting which students may have learning difficulties and intervening to help students diagnosed with disabilities.
- Apps for Children with DyslexiaJanuary 26, 2012, 2:00 pm- The parent of a second grader newly diagnosed with dyslexia wrote me asking if I knew of any apps that might help her son with reading and math. She'd searched and come up with nothing — and so did I, with the same result. I asked Warren Buckleitner, who reviews children's technology for The Times's Gadgetwise blog, what he'd recommend.
- Piece of My Heart: Letting My ADHD Son Make His Own MistakesJanuary 26, 2012, 2:00 pm- "What's wrong with you?!" I yell at my 23-year-old ADHD son after a thoughtless incident with a tattoo gun. Then I remember myself at that age... and hope I can survive growing up all over again.
- NIH Announces Funding For New Learning Disabilities Research CentersJanuary 19, 2012, 2:00 pm- Funding for four centers to conduct research on the causes and treatment of learning disabilities in children and adolescents has been provided by the National Institutes of Health.
- ADHD and Food: The Connection Is TenuousJanuary 19, 2012, 2:00 pm- "The Diet Factor in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder," the much-cited study released by the journal Pediatrics this week, did not make much of a case for using dietary change to treat Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). But it did make an interesting case for using food control to treat parents' angst about their kids' ADHD.
- ADHD Med Shortage Puts Squeeze on ParentsJanuary 19, 2012, 2:00 pm- Jason Greene can easily predict which customers ask for Ritalin or Adderall. Their faces are new to him, but their anxious looks have become familiar. "The parents do get a little rattled sometimes when they are trying to help their children," said Greene, a pharmacist at Reeves-Sain Drug Store in Murfreesboro. The independent pharmacy has picked up new customers due to a shortage of ADHD medicines that has parents scurrying from drug store to drug store as if competing in a poker run.
