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Harnessing ADHD for Business Success Study
Study reveals important symptoms of ADHD had decisive impact on subjects decision to go into business and on their entrepreneurial approach
Source: Disabled World - March 11, 2017 Category: Disability Tags: ADHD and ADD Source Type: news

School Resources for Children with Chronic Disabilities: Section 504
From the desks of Nurse Practitioners Katie Faragher and Josie Dawe:PLEASE NOTE: Parents are required to request the 504 evaluation....your pediatrician or nurse practitioner cannot request it from the school. Katie Faragher, CPNPSection 504 is a federal law that protects students with disabilities from being discriminated against at school. The law requires the school to provide children with disabilities the same opportunities as students without disabilities. This is done by providing reasonable accommodations and ...
Source: Pediatric Health Associates - March 10, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Autism Healthy Habits Source Type: news

Internet gaming disorder explains unique variance in psychological distress and disability after controlling for comorbid depression, OCD, ADHD, and anxiety - Pearcy BT, McEvoy PM, Roberts LD.
This study extends knowledge about the relationship of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) to other established mental disorders by exploring comorbidities with anxiety, depression, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and obsessive compulsive disor...
Source: SafetyLit - January 21, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news

ADHD Drug Plus Therapy Improves Cognitive Outcomes In TBI Patients
Study reveals combination of methylphenidate with cognitive-behavioral rehabilitation a promising option for people with persistent cognitive problems following traumatic brain injury
Source: Disabled World - November 25, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: Traumatic Brain Injury Source Type: news

Children with Autism Possibly Over-diagnosed with ADHD
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia autism and ADHD experts say current measuring tools for ADHD may not work for children with autism spectrum disorders
Source: Disabled World - October 29, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: ADHD and ADD Source Type: news

Samantha ’s story: Partnering with BACPAC program to end bullying
During the fifth grade when Samantha was 10 years old, she was bullied by a male classmate. She remembers walking through the halls of her elementary school and hearing the bully call out these words: “Why are you on this earth? You don’t deserve to be alive.” The bullying followed her every day. “I didn’t want to go to school because I knew he would be there. I was afraid,” says Samantha, now 12. Weeks into the school year, the harassment and intimidation escalated and turned physical. “It was usually mental [abuse], but at one point in fifth grade the bully came up to me, and he punched me on the back,�...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 6, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Maureen McCarthy Tags: Our Patients’ Stories Teen Health ADHD autism bullying Bullying and Cyberbullying Prevention and Advocacy Collaborative Department of Neurology Learning disabilities Peter Raffalli Source Type: news

Mom Changes Her Anti-Vax Stance After Entire Family Gets Sick
Kristen O’Meara refused to vaccinate her children for more than five years. Then her entire family contracted Rotavirus, a potentially deadly stomach virus that can be prevented with a vaccination. It was a wake-up call she couldn’t ignore. O’Meara decided to forego vaccines when her first daughter, Natasha, was born in 2010. “I entered motherhood with what I thought was a healthy skepticism regarding vaccination,” she wrote in a New York Post article last week. The Chicago-area special needs teacher purposely sought out books and research that confirmed what she already believ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 27, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Injury risks in schoolchildren with attention-deficit/hyperactivity or autism spectrum disorder: results from two school-based health surveys of 6- to 17-year-old children in Sweden - Bonander C, Beckman L, Janson S, Jernbro C.
INTRODUCTION: Injuries are one of the leading causes of death and disability among children in Sweden and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has previously been associated with an increased risk of injury in pediatric populations elsewhere in ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Artists With 'Invisible' Disabilities Use Tattoos To Talk About Health
“I have chosen a surreal art approach to represent my invisible disability, due to the surreal nature of mental illness,” tattoo artist Lindsay Carter expressed in a statement. Carter’s image ― featured on the right, above ― shows a bird whose head is a cage with a giant eyeball protruding from the dreamlike vision. “As long as I’ve been consciously aware, I’ve been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder,” she continued. “Severe episodes can happen for no apparent reason and at that point I cannot help nor snap out of the...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Power Of The Gut
As an integrative medicine physician, I stay current with scientific research relevant to patient health in my clinical practice. Over the past two decades, I began seeing an increasing incidence of hormonal and immune dysregulations in my patients. Also, autoimmune diseases, depression, anxiety, and obesity began showing up in unprecedented numbers. A few years ago, I became aware of the ongoing research on the human gut microbiome. Much of the published researched explained what I was seeing in my clinical practice as linked to a disrupted gut biome. As I began applying the recommended protocols to healing the microbio...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Childhood head injury linked to range of adult health problems
Conclusion This is an important study, but the more alarming headlines over-state the absolute risks of problems in adulthood following on from a childhood head injury. The majority of people who'd had a head injury didn't have any of the problems studied, and the overall risk of death by age 41 – the outcome that got most press attention – was 1.6% – only 0.2 percentage points higher than for the unaffected siblings of children with head injury. The study has a number of strengths: it is very large has a long follow-up period the Swedish database records are thought to be accurate it includes figures about s...
Source: NHS News Feed - August 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology Mental health Pregnancy/child Source Type: news

Anne Ford Learning Disability and/or ADHD Scholarship
$10,000 scholarship for graduating high school senior with learning disability and/or ADHD who will be enrolled in full-time bachelors degree program in the fall
Source: Disabled World - August 22, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: Disability Scholarships Source Type: news

Allegra Ford Thomas Scholarship
$2,500 scholarship for graduating high school senior with learning disability (LD) and/or ADHD
Source: Disabled World - August 22, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: Disability Scholarships Source Type: news

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