News for the Special Education Community
by Marilyn Redmond – US American psychiatrist, Leon Eisenberg, born in 1922 as the son of Russian Jewish Immigrants, who was the “Scientific father of ADHD” said at the age or 87 in his last interview, “ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.” For forty years, he served on many committees, was in [...]
by Collin Garbarino – G. K. Chesterton wrote, “Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.” A rich man cannot be a thief. He must be a kleptomaniac. America, the richest society in the history of the world, applies [...]
by Dr. Michael J. Breus - Millions of children and adults struggle with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a condition marked by problems with concentration, impulse control, organization, and memory. It can be a frustrating and difficult condition, stigmatizing and often isolating for those who suffer from it. But what if some of [...]
Up to 20 percent of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder, and the number of kids diagnosed with one has been rising for more than a decade, according to a report released on Thursday by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In the agency’s first-ever study of mental disorders [...]
by Rich Johnston – In 2010 I would have laughed myself into a coma had I been told I would be writing a comic book. Actually, the truth is I didn’t do much laughing at all, because it was the scariest year of my life. That was the year we found out my unborn son [...]
by David Flink – As the founder of a national mentoring organization for students with learning disabilities, I’m accustomed to misconceptions about dyslexia, which causes intelligent people to experience difficultly reading and writing. But it was startling to read the letter “The dyslexia of liberalism” (April 24, VND & Triblive.com) that lumped dyslexia with thought [...]
by: Joseph Legueri – There are now 128,000 special-education students in Minnesota’s K-12 public schools. The cost of working with these students is $1.8 billion per year. In March the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor (Program Evaluation Division) completed an evaluation of the special-education programs in Minnesota’s K-12 public schools. The report concluded that, [...]
Thomas E. Brown,Ph.D. - Most children and adults with ADHD have a few specific activities for which they have none of the difficulty in focusing that plagues them in most other tasks. If you watch them engaged in their favorite activities such as playing a sport, making art or music, doing mechanical tasks or playing a video [...]
by Bianca Garilli – Sales of stimulant medication in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have more than doubled in the past five years, according to the health care information company IMS Health, jumping from $4 billion in 2007 to $9 billion in 2012. The most common of these medications include: Adderall, Ritalin, [...]
WHY is dyslexia such a hard word to spell? As I nervously waited in an uncomfortable, blue, plastic chair biting the skin around my nails I wondered what an earth the word “dyslexic” actually meant and what impact it would have on my life. Did this now mean I was officially stupid? Would it stop [...]
