February 28, 2023 Therapeutic and support services available through New York’s Early Intervention (EI) Program are vital for infants and toddlers with disabilities, but an audit released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found many young children did not receive services or faced delays in care. The audit recommended the New York State...
ADHD: Medication alone doesn’t improve classroom learning for children – new research William E. Pelham, Jr., Florida International University For decades, many physicians, parents and teachers have believed that stimulant medications help children with ADHD learn because they are able to focus and behave better when medicated. After all, an estimated 6.1 million children in...
After a lengthy delay due to the pandemic, we are pleased to announce that the second edition of Martino and Leckman’s Tourette Syndrome is now available for pre-order. We were honored to contribute a chapter for educators. You can find the table of contents and other information on the book on Oxford University Press’s...
Anxiety orders are one of the most — if not the most — prevalent mental disorders in children and adolescents. For years, we have known that various forms of exposure therapy such as exposure-response prevention or the Worry Hill program can help youth learn to manage and reduce anxiety symptoms. But would virtual reality...
If you are thinking that ADHD does not need treatment — or that “boys will be boys” — or that your child will just grow up and out of ADHD, you may want to find out more about a long-term study by Di Lorenzo, Balducci, Pippi, and their colleagues. The investigators reviewed studies that...