Trying to discipline your child can be a difficult and ever changing world of frustration for all involved. When your child has been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome it can be as difficult to create rules and boundaries as it is to determine effective consequences. Often, a child with Asperger’s sees the world in a different way than his ...
You may have been approached by your child’s teacher or you may have noticed yourself that your child is not well-matched to his educational curriculum. He may be having difficulties in one or more subject areas or he may be performing well above his peers. Sometimes, problems may be noticed as early as junior or senior kindergarten. A psycho-educational ...
I love my family. My husband and I have been married for 23 years. We have six amazing children. I may be biased but I find them unique, creative, smart, energetic, and goodhearted. Of the six, five and my husband have severe combined type Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We enjoy being together though there are times when we're all over ...
When considering medication for ADHD, child benefits must be carefully weighed by parents. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood, estimated to affect around 9.4% of children in the US. With rising rates of diagnosis, more parents are faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to put their child on medication ...
Every child differs in his/her developmental capacity and pace. Some children learn to speak earlier than others. Some learn ...
Not every relationship works out. This is true whether the relationship in question is a friendship, romantic relationship, or the ...
Autism has been in the spotlight for many years. In movies, television, and novels, autistic characters are portrayed to have ...
ADHD misdiagnosis as a bipolar disorder often occurs due to similarity of symptoms, making an accurate diagnosis challenging. If you follow news, you must know about the explosion in the number of children and teenagers being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Many parents also aware of very serious mental health condition called Bipolar Disorder. These two conditions often ...
The human brain processes all sensory information whether or not you are fully aware of it. Most children are able to find a way to ignore extraneous information that is in their environment and focus on the information related to the activity or object of their immediate interest. Children who are hypersensitive take in all stimuli at once and at ...
Do you remember sitting through 3-hour long lecture classes in college and thinking about everything other than whatever topic the professor was covering? Can you think of a time that you had an hour-long conversation with your best friend, where she carried on and on about something that you can’t remember because you weren’t really paying attention to ...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent mental health problems affecting children in the United States. It is widely discussed in popular mental health articles, and it seems that parents all think they know how to tell if their child is showing the telltale signs of ADHD: trouble focusing, low grades, disciplinary problems at school, and ...
