“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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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...

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...

The teacher’s voice broke as she relayed the events of the day that culminated in her having to evacuate the class away from my son. In addition to yelling at people, he had also been throwing chairs. “It breaks my heart because this behavior...

A systematic review published in the Journal of Attention Disorders found that facial emotion recognition (FER) among individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) improves with age. However, little consensus about trends in...

The phrase “autism treatment” can cause quite a controversy in the autism community. At one time, autism was viewed as something “wrong” with a person that needed to be cured. As more research has been done, we’ve learned much more about autism...

Results of an study by researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center suggest that dairy-free diets and unconventional food preferences could put boys with autism and autism spectrum...

Children with autism have no unique pattern of abnormal results on endoscopy or other tests for gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, compared to non-autistic children with GI symptoms, reports a study in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology...

Children exposed to low levels of mercury in the womb because their mothers ate large amounts of fish during pregnancy don't appear to be at increased risk for autism, a new study suggests. Worry that low levels of mercury might affect a...