Tag: ADD
Vicarious adventures with food
Use the five senses and help children develop a better relationship with food, says Lucy Cooke
Childhood eating and feeding difficulties are common, particularly in...
Supporting ADHD at school
How ADHD impacts on a pupil’s daily functioning and what teachers can do to help.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that...
Kicking off
SEN Magazine’s Peter Sutcliffe talks to Jo Redman about living with ADHD and Asperger’s and how sport helped to turn her life around
NHS needs rethink on ADHD
NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups are being urged to review their spending on child and adolescent mental health in order to improve the...
What do teachers need to know about ADHD?
Often controversial, it divides opinion like few conditions can. Geoff Kewley and Neil Rutterford examine the facts, the fiction and the way forward for ADHD management in school
Major study of autism and ADHD risk in siblings
Researchers at Birkbeck, University of London’s “Babylab” are launching a new £2.5 million project called Studying Autism and ADHD Risk in Siblings (STAARS) which...
ADHD linked to economic status
Scientists have found evidence of a link between social and economic status and childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the UK.
A team led...
Ambidextrous children linked to ADHD
Children who are ambidextrous are at a greater risk of having mental health problems and experience greater difficulties with language and general schooling than...
Book Reviews
Neurodiversity and Education
The authors of this publication combine extensive experience in the fields of education, neurodiversity, teacher training, tutoring and consultancy. Paul Ellis broadcasts regularly on...
