Posts Tagged ‘self-esteem’
ADHD & the brain: Does ADHD treatment improve long-term academic, social and behavioral outcomes?
. The ADHD challenge The core symptoms of ADHD frequently cause significant impairment in academic, social and behavioral functioning that adversely impact individuals’ quality of life. These symptoms often persist into adulthood, potentially compromising an individual’s functioning over many years. Understanding how ADHD impacts long-term functioning, and whether adverse long-term affects are diminished with treatment, is
Read MoreStudy: Families’ Perspectives on ADHD and its Treatment
In 2005 the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) began an initiative to promote an approach to care among its members in which “…the pediatric team works in partnership with a child and a child’s family to assure that all of the medical and non-medical needs of the patient are met.” A critically important focus of…
Read MoreBrain Fitness Newsletter: Brain Awareness Week is March 10–16th
Here you are have the bi-monthly Digest of our 10 most Popular blog posts. (Also, remember that you can subscribe to receive our blog RSS feed, or to our newsletter at the top of this page if you want to receive this digest by email). First, an announcement: March 10–16th is Brain Awareness Week, an international…
Read MoreThe First Step Is Failure
Joanne Jacobs, educator, blogger and author of Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea and the Charter School That Beat the Odds, participates today in our Author Speaks Series with an excellent article on how “Schools won’t improve until administrators and teachers can admit the problems, analyze what’s going wrong and…
Read MoreBrain Fitness Training for Trainers
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI) at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley, and SharpBrains offer this three-day workshop for educators and brain fitness practitioners seeking instructional certification in the SharpBrains course, Exercising Our Brains. SharpBrains (www.sharpbrains.com) has introduced the first science-based brain fitness center with information and programs to help people of all ages exercise their brains. They have offered the popular Exercising Our Brains course at SF State’s OLLI since October 2005.
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