Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Learning Disability specialist and Educational Consultant Sanford Shapiro’s radio interview on connections between learning disabilities and emotional/ behavioral health. Shapiro and host Dore Frances discuss the need for greater awareness about how learning styles potentially impact personal growth, both positively and negatively. www.latalkradio.com/images/Dore-061509.mp3
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
ADHD Drugs: Sudden Death Risk Higher? Study Suggests Link Between Some ADHD Drugs and Sudden Cardiac Death in Children
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jun 15th, 2009 1 Comment »
Kids with ADHD need to fidget, study says Duh.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on May 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Eczema’s link to asthma uncovered This may be meaningful to many people in the LD world who have allergies and other autoimmune problems.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on May 9th, 2009 6 Comments »
Brain Gain Margaret Talbot at The New Yorker has an incredible piece on the use of drugs like Adderall and Ritalin to give “regular” non-ADHD students a competitive edge by allowing them to concentrate. New psychiatric drugs have a way of creating markets for themselves. Disorders often become widely diagnosed after drugs come along that [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on May 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
Stop worrying about your children! Kids today are just as safe as they were in the ’70s, says “Free-Range Kids” author Lenore Skenazy, and what’s really distressing is an alarmist culture that refuses to let them grow up. Tell that to “helicopter parents.”
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Apr 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Elizabeth Svoboda at Salon has an interesting piece up today: “I am not a puzzle, I am a person”. People with autism don’t need to be “cured,” argues the burgeoning “autism culture” movement. Not all parents or medical experts agree.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Feb 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Editorial: Vaccines Exonerated on Autism A special federal vaccine court issued three devastating verdicts on Thursday that should help demolish lingering fears that childhood vaccines can and have caused autism. The verdicts won’t satisfied die-hard adherents of the theory that the medical establishment is recklessly harming their children. But the vast majority of parents ought [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Nov 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Joan Acocella at The New Yorker has a review of a book on overparenting: “A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting.” Her article is: The Child Trap. Marano thinks that the infant-stimulation craze was a scandal. She accepts the idea of brain plasticity, but she believes that the sculpting goes on for [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jul 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
My friend Harvey Hubbel is working on a movie: Dislecksia: The Movie. Oh boy, here we go.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
WIRED magazine has a fascinating article: The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know which features Amanda Baggs who is in the video below. Note: Watch the entire video, Amanda explains in “our” language how she perceives the world. This is fascinating stuff.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Feb 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
A Child’s View of Attention Deficit While the report gives insights into the sadness and frustration felt by kids with attention deficits, Dr. Bartlett said she chose the students because they had “achieved some measure of success by virtue of now being college students.’’ She said she hopes the research can be used to help [...]