An Iowa Teacher Who Couldn't Afford Weighted Blankets for Her Students with Special Needs is Making Them InsteadEveryone loves a good blanket. You're swaddled in one as a baby. You curl up in your favorite one on the sofa as an adult. You likely die under one, maybe that your grandmother made for you decades ago. Too bad we can't have a favorite heavy blanket at work or school. That's what Cedar Falls special needs teacher Christiana Junge wondered. It might just help fidgety students in her class to focus. So she did what teachers do. She researched the idea. She looked at what blankets would cost, realized there was no budget and made them herself. "You want to do everything you can to help every single student," said the Southdale Elementary teacher. Read More |
In Canada, Many Youth with ADHD Given Antipsychotic Drugs: StudyOne in 20 Ontario children and youth have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and many are prescribed antipsychotic drugs, despite having no other mental health diagnoses, researchers have found. A study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences found almost 12 per cent of kids and youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, were prescribed antipsychotics like Risperdal, Zyprexa and Seroquel. "When we looked at the information on the children and youth with ADHD who were prescribed antipsychotics, a very, very small number of them had a condition where you would expect the use of an antipsychotic - conditions such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia," said senior author Dr. Paul Kurdyak, head of the mental health and addictions program at ICES. Read More |
Expert: Wandering an All-too-Common Problem for Children with AutismWandering by children with autism is common, dangerous, and at times, deadly. On Monday at about 9 p.m., 7-year-old Tanner Vick died when he wandered out of his Franklin County home and was hit by a car on Darius Pearce Road. Vick had autism and played baseball for the Miracle League of Franklin County. According to a neighbor, Vicks' mother went to the bathroom and when she returned to the room, he was gone. David Laxton, with the Autism Society of North Carolina, described the circumstances as tragic. "Some children with autism, and some adults with autism, are just drawn to things that are dangerous," he said. "They just don't understand the danger." Laxton said wandering is an all-too-common problem. Read More |
The Truth About Autism and SleepI am tired. Tired in a way that is different than any tired I have known before. A deep tired. A tired that feels defeating sometimes. A tired that is beginning to feel permanent. Six months ago, my 4-year-old son slept through the night. And then one night he just stopped. He stopped sleeping because of his Autism Spectrum Disorder. A symptom that I did not even know was a symptom of autism until it happened to us. One of the many things along this journey that I did not see coming. But, that is what this journey along the spectrum is all about. Time and time again, we are caught off guard. Left with no other choice than to fight through the obstacles. Read More |
Maybe Teaching Special Ed Doesn't Have To Be So HardThis time last year, Stephanie Johnson was miserable. She was in her third year teaching special education at a junior high school in Lindon, Utah, about 40 minutes south of Salt Lake City. On the outside it looked like she was doing great. Her classes ran smoothly, students loved her, parents loved her, but like many special education teachers, inside she felt as though she was drowning. She said she thought about leaving all the time: "I don't know how to describe it, it's just so much work. I just feel like I cannot do it." Read More |
Teenagers Who Access Mental Health Services See Significant Improvements, Study ShowsYoung people with mental health problems who have contact with mental health services are significantly less likely to suffer from clinical depression later in their adolescence than those with equivalent difficulties who do not receive treatment, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. This comes as Prime Minister Theresa May announced measures to improve mental health support at every stage of a person's life, with an emphasis on early intervention for children and young people. The study, published in Lancet Psychiatry, found that 14-year-old adolescents who had contact with mental health services had a greater decrease in depressive symptoms than those with similar difficulties but without contact. By the age of 17, the odds of reporting clinical depression were more than seven times higher in individuals without contact than in service users who had been similarly depressed at baseline. Read More |
Precision Medicine Advances Pediatric Brain Tumor Diagnosis and TreatmentPrecision medicine -- in which diagnosis and treatments are keyed to the genetic susceptibilities of individual cancers -- has advanced to the point where it can now impact the care of a majority of children with brain tumors, a new study by investigators at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center suggests. In the largest clinical study to date of genetic abnormalities in pediatric brain tumors, researchers performed clinical testing on more than 200 tumor samples and found that a majority had genetic irregularities that could influence how the disease was diagnosed and/or treated with approved drugs or agents being evaluated in clinical trials. The findings, reported online by the journal Neuro-Oncology, demonstrate that testing pediatric brain tumor tissue for genetic abnormalities is clinically feasible and that in many cases the results can guide patients' treatment. Read More |
Expecting Spike in Texas Special Education Students, Advocates Push For Better ServicesWith increased federal attention on the low percentage of Texas students receiving special education services, the state is poised to ensure the number of students receiving such services will increase over the next year. And disability rights advocates are hoping to go even further, aiming to improve the overall quality of those services. Those advocates want school officials to reduce the rates at which black students are labeled as learning disabled - experts say that student group has been overrepresented for decades in special ed. They also want to increase the rate of English-language learners, whom educators can often mistake for having language challenges rather than disabilities. Read More |
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