“I’m not Prepared”: Experiences of Professionals Working with Students with Disabilities and Co-occurring Mental Health Disorders Megan Fujita, Ph.D., MSW Grace L. Francis, Ph.D. Jodi Duke, Ed.D. George Mason University Abstract It is...

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“From Chaos to Community”: Inclusive Community Building in Middle Schools Kenneth Lloyd Reimer, Ph.D. University of Winnipeg (Canada) Abstract This paper highlights a study (2022) conducted in a Canadian school division which explored the...

Elizabeth G. S. Munsell, MS, OTR/L Ariel E. Schwartz, PhD, OTR/L Elizabeth K. Schmidt, PhD, OTR/L Jennifer Chen, PhD, OTR/L Boston University Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak caused abrupt disruptions to many domains of everyday life, including...

“Would you rather swim in Jell-O or chocolate sauce?” “If you could have superpowers, what would they be?” “What do you think will be most challenging thing about life after high school?” These questions inspire laughter and sometimes even deep...

“Why is it that people with ADHD can do some specific things that they happen to be really interested in, or where they feel like, if they don’t take care of this right here, right now , something they do not want to see happen is going to...

If ADHD is all about attention, why do children have so much difficulty with reading, writing, and math? The simple answer to this question is that ADHD is about much more than attention and focus, and it rarely travels alone. In fact, more...

Growing up, I had always wondered if I had received the correct autism diagnosis. I was diagnosed with autism and ADHD at age 3, and for the amount of “evidence-based therapy for autism” that has consumed my entire childhood, I should have been...

It’s so easy to have opinions about children, teens, and young adults with ADHD. What we often label as laziness, poor motivation , intentional, and not being able to “just do it” is not those things at all. In fact, our kids with ADHD have...