Autism Research by M.J. Connor.
There are 517 documents in the SERSEN site relating to autism research Many of these documents have been written by Michael Connor at user222461@aol.com
Michael Connor is a chartered educational psychologist. Following his teacher-training, and working as a teacher of modern languages at Southend Grammar School for Boys, and head of department at Sevenoaks County Secondary School for Girls, Michael completed (part-time) studies for an honours degree in Psychology (1972) and trained as an educational psychologist, receiving an M.Sc in Educational and Developmental Psychology in 1973. He joined the Surrey Educational Psychology Service in September 1973, and was appointed to the post of area senior in 1976. Michael switched in 1990 to a specialist post combining case work with an information and research role, and maintained this joint responsibility until August 2006. He took partial retirement at that time but has maintained an information and research role, now working as a consultant for the group of LEAs represented at the SE Regional Special Educational Needs’ Forum which sponsors research and shares evidence of good practice in respect of special educational needs, with particular emphasis upon autism.
GUILLAIN – BARRE SYNDROME
A brief report- describing the nature of the syndrome, the symptoms, and its management.
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NIEMANN-PICK DISEASE
This brief description is designed to provide some information about the nature of the condition which has three distinguishable forms. A recent consultation in which reference was made to Niemann-Pic..
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ADHD : ASSOCIATED OR COMORBID CONDITIONS
This review is concerned with the nature of ADHD and the differences in presentation or in likely response to intervention when the ADHD condition is linked to signs and symptoms of other conditions w..
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Autism and the colour yellow
This brief note was written in response to a question whether children and young people with autism have a preference for, or particular interest in, the colour yellow.
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Dyslexia (SpLD) : A Summary and Overview of the Current Situation
These notes highlight the point reached by research evidence and informed observations in respect of the nature and aetiology of dyslexia …. as set out in two recently published and major articles.The..
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The ASD “Ben” Diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, Reflecting at Age 23
ng their interests as a basis for number or creative writing tasks. A typical test of mind blindness.
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The Kearney School Refusal Assessment Scales
These notes, requested by the coordinator of an EWO team, provide a brief description of the scope and nature of this assessment tool. The scales seek to highlight the function of the school refusing..
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TRIBUNAL ISSUES. The case of D – age 12 years. SLD and ASD.
Notes to Assist in Completing the LEA Case Statement for the SEN Tribunal Autumn 2006 These notes, now anonymised, were prepared for a given case and a given set of circumstances,..
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Siblings of Children with Autism and ASD
This paper summarises the kind of needs that might apply to a relatively under-evaluated group of children those with an autistic brother or sister.
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Mainstream Inclusion of Deaf Children and Young People - Principles and Tensions
This paper sets out some recently expressed concerns about what is actually meant by inclusion for students who are deaf, what should be involved in the way of strategies and school organisation,..
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Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder : Genetics, Triggers, and Trajectory
These current summaries concern, respectively, confirmation of the major significance of genetic factors in ADHD ; the significance, too, of environmental factors ( with foetal alcohol syndrome as an..
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Siblings of Children with Autism and ASD
This paper summarises the kind of needs that might apply to a relatively under-evaluated group of children … those with an autistic brother or sister...
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Dyslexia (SpLD): Recent Research 15
the potential benefits of a chiropractic approach to certain learning difficulties; and the positive effect upon literacy from the learning of music.
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Influences and Variables Related to Cognitive Processes
These notes cover a range of issues linked loosely by their learning-related themes ( or simply by the similar publication dates of the articles in question !..
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Residential Provision : School, Fostering, or Care
This paper explores the relative merits of the ways of providing residential facilities for children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties when their needs,..
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Dyslexia (SpLD) : the Reality but Heterogeneity of the Disability
ferences among individuals so-identified in their profiles of strengths and weaknesses. M.J.Connor
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Information and Research Specialism : Papers Completed
Michael Connor
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Autism and ASD : More Evidence about their Nature and Symptomatology
The topics covered here include sleep patterns among children with autism or ASD and among adults with autism and learning difficulties ; sensory integration and perceptual experience ;..
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AUTISM AND AIR POLLUTION
This brief report is concerned with only one set of research results ( plus reference to some existing studies and to reactions ) but it highlights a further aetiological hypothesis …...
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Reading Comprehension : Issues for Assessment and Interpretation of Results
These notes examine the difficulties in gaining a valid measure of the comprehension of what is read.
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Depression in Children and Adolescents : Current Thoughts
The first part of these notes explores whether there has been sharp rise in the prevalence of depression among young people in recent years ; with the conclusion that,..
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( INCREASING ) INTELLIGENCE
A current reference to apparent rises in measured levels of intelligence provided the stimulus for an exploration of the “ Flynn Effect ” …. generational shifts observed in some elements of cognitive..
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AUTISM : CURRENT ISSUES 46
This set of summaries begins with a reference to the possible confounding of autism or ASD with reactive attachment disorder, along with differentiating features.
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ASD : Further Thoughts on Inclusion (Junior or Secondary School, and University)
These summaries return to the theme of assisting children and young people to achieve meaningful academic and social inclusion at school and in higher education.
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Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome
These descriptive notes were stimulated by a mention to the present writer of the possibility of a diagnosis of Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome in a child, with associated questions concerning what this syn..
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Deafness : Family Factors, Assessment, and Planning Provisions
language.M.J.Connor
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Dyspraxia : Incidence and Other Features
These brief thoughts were requested by a member of the local multi-professional teams to assist in preparing a presentation about dyspraxia … especially in respect of the question of incidence ( incl..
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Attention Deficit Disorder : Research Update 50
” of medication for ADHD, both stimulant and non-stimulant.
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Parental Involvement in their Children’s Education
a secondary school case study ) can apply across the scholastic age and ability spectra. M.J.Connor
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Parenting Styles and Parent-Child Attachment Vulnerability in Children to Social, Emotional and Behavioural Problems
s of early intervention and support. M.J.Connor May 2007
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Behavioural Interventions and Young Children with Autism
iversity, which demonstrated effectiveness in enhancing certain areas of functioning but with variations in outcomes according to child characteristics and with no changes brought about in the core di..
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Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome
Brief introductory presentation to initiate group discussion concerning the interpretation of, or reactions to, the application of an Asperger label to a child or young person presenting behavioural o..
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Neuroscience and Educational Practices
mary form, the main points of the review/commentary produced by Howard-Jones et al (2007).
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PROTOCOLS FOR TEACHERS OF THE DEAF WITHIN THE TRIBUNALS PROCESS
As a result of professional concerns expressed by members around appropriate conduct at SENDIST hearings, BATOD approached a number of Teachers of the Deaf who are Tribunal members,..
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Dyslexia (SpLD) : Recent Research 56
pil-partnering to enhance reading performance among children who lack fluency.M.J.Connor June 2007
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Behavioural Difficulties and Interventions – Miscellany 13
rom primary school. There is a discussion of preventing or responding to antisocial and aggressive behaviours in alternative education settings. The final section concerns the definition and use of “t..
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Interventions in Autism : Social, Communication, and Behaviour
here intervention appears most effective when a (functional) assessment is followed by a combination of strategies. M.J.Connor
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Bullying : Further Thoughts
The two articles concern, respectively, bullying and young (pre-school) children, with the implication that this age group should be considered within anti-bullying policies ;..
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Autism : Clarifying Core Characteristics and Aiding Diagnosis
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Asperger Syndrome : More on its Nature and its Differentiability from Autism
These notes return to the theme of specific and diagnostic characteristics of Asperger Syndrome citing recent evidence that there are distinctions between Asperger
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Further Thoughts on Autism Disorder Subtypes
Notes for the Policy and Performance Department, Surrey LEA
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Autism : Outcomes of Alternative Forms of (Early) Intervention
These summaries begin with a description of the judgment in the Dublin High Court Case in which a family had pressed for funding for intensive applied behavioural analysis ( Lovaas) for their child wh..
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AUTISM AND THE EFFECT UPON PARENTS AND SIBLINGS
h various disabilities who had recourse to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal. M.J.Connor
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Eating Disorders Aetiology, Nature, and Intervention
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The Language, Presentation, and Understanding of Mathematics
These summaries concern the relative complexity of the language in which mathematics’ concepts are presented and explained, with the implication that competence in,..
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Early Predictors of Depressive Disorders
These short notes describe the findings of two studies which have explored the aetiology of depression.
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AUTISM : CURRENT ISSUES 49
rmance in typically developing children, and in children with ASD but without hyperlexia.
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Dyslexia (SpLD) : Recent Research 59
These notes begin with the findings of a study to assess the attributes of effective early intervention in the case of reading difficulties, with an outcome concerning the desirability of specific ins..
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SELECTIVE MUTISM : PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES
These summary notes provide a complement to previously reported information in quoting the direct opinions and experiences of individuals who demonstrate,..
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Complex or Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties Principles and Realities in Educational Placement
nderlying policies and issues, based upon a survey of a large number of headteachers representing such schools. M.J.Connor
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Peer Pressures, Self Processes, Intellectual Status, and Behaviour
These summaries concern, firstly, the interac tion of group status and peer group influences upon behaviour.Secondly, there is reference to the relationship between observable,..
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Providing for Children with Autism : Sibling, Parent, and Peer Issues
This review concerns, firstly, the development of siblings of children with autism, with the results of a study suggesting that psychosocial and emotional skills are typically enhanced,..
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DYSLEXIA (SpLD) : RECENT RESEARCH 60
This review concerns, firstly, a piece of research into forms of developmental dyslexia which supported the concept of distinct subtypes and offered reinforcement for the
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Developing Provision Management for Children and Young People with Sensory Impairment
Final consulation document 2007. - Developing Provision Management for Children and Young People with Sensory Impairment
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Developing Provision Management for Children and Young People with Sensory Impairment - Final consultation document QUESTIONAIRE
Final Consultation Document QUESTIONNAIRE
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Early Behavioural Intervention in Autism. Further Thoughts on Effects and Effectiveness
The first part of these summaries concerns the question whether behavioural approaches bring about true play in children, or simply evoke responses which have been attached to specific stimuli.The nex..
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ADHD : More on its Nature and Elements
This set of summaries concerns, firstly, an exploration of the observed link between ADHD and limited achievement at school. A reference is made to the incidence of ADHD and the apparently rising rate..
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Measured Intelligence (IQ) More on Putative Factors
This review of recently published research evidence and observations begins with a follow-up to the discussion over the “Flynn Effect”
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Further Thoughts on Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Adolescence
This short review begins with a reminder that the presentation of ASD or Asperger Syndrome changes over time, and negative features such as stress may be more significant with the increase in complexi..
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AUTISM – CURRENT ISSUES 50
This set of summaries begins with references to the possibility of identifying autism in very young children ( at or before 2 years of age ), and to a recommendation for autism screening of all infant..
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Behavioural Difficulties and Interventions : Miscellany 15
Behavioural Difficulties and Interventions : Miscellany 15
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ADHD : Functional Impacts ( Academic, Motor, Familial, and Emotional )
These summaries begin with a reference to the (differentiable) effects upon academic progress of both delay aversion and executive function deficits.
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DYSLEXIA (SpLD) : RECENT RESEARCH 61
This set of notes begins with an exploration of the frequency of particular types of learning disability, questioning the assertion that reading disability is the most prevalent.
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Autism and ASD : Interventions for Reducing Maladaptive Behaviours
This review concerns, firstly, assessment and intervention in respect of stereotyped verbal responding. The following section returns to the theme of video models for fostering appropriate behaviours..
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Bullying : A Review of Some Recent Research Findings
These notes begin with a study of the factors influencing teachers’ decisions about the seriousness of bullying and whether to intervene. The next section discusses the distinction between bullying on..
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Non-Attendance at School ( School Refusal, Truancy, or Condoned Absence )
This brief review begins with a differentiation of the various circumstances which may be linked to the observable behaviour of short or long term failure to attend school...
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPRECIATIVE INTELLIGENCE
These brief review notes return to the theme of Emotional Intelligence and its basic characteristics, and refer also to a variant of the concept of EI described as the 4-Branch Model.
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ASPERGER SYNDROME AND CRIME
These review notes explore the question whether individuals diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome have a greater probability than typically-developing peers of becoming involved in delinquent or criminal..
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Reading and Associated Difficulties Challenges to Hypotheses Linked to Brain Patterning ( or Phonological Deficits )
These notes return, principally, to the theme of selected physical exercises as a means of compensating for learning disabilities. A critique of “ Brain Gym ” is summarised,..
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Memory Recent Findings Concerning Storage, Neural Processes, and Enhancement
These brief notes describe new data about the way memory is stored, including the similarity of processing of conscious and unconscious material, differences between creating and retrieving a memory,..
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AUTISM (ASD) AND ADHD : OVERLAP AND COMORBIDITY
A description is provided of the way in which Autistic Spectum Disorder and Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder may share certain symptoms, or co-exist,..
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The (Educational) Needs of Children with Comorbid Autism and Deafness
A description is offered in these notes of the frequency of the association of autism and deafness. Reference is made to the complexity of evaluating hearing deficits among children who are autistic,..
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Dyslexia (SpLD) : Recent Research 62
This sample of current research data concerns, firstly, a hypothesised pathway linking the effects of specified genes, developmental brain anomalies, and observable perceptual and cognitive deficits a..
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Continuing Evidence for the Reality of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
The summaries in this review refer to the significance and impact of the behavioural, social, and cognitive symptoms of ADHD, and, accordingly, to the need for true multi-agency intervention and liais..
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MANAGED MOVES
Managed Moves are a means of averting the threat of exclusion from school in the case of pupils whose presenting behavioural problems have continued in the face of routinely available pastoral or di..
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Peer, Sibling, and Self Perspectives on Disability or Difference ( Including ASD )
This review includes a summary of findings concerned with children’s understanding of psychological problems among pre-school or school-age peers the development of interaction between children diagn..
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Behavioural Difficulties and Interventions – Miscellany 16
This assortment of pieces of information, linked only by their being gleaned at much the same time, concern the differentiation of behavioural disorder from normal misbehaviour among pre-school childr..
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Parental Stress and Resilience in Caring for Children with Learning Disability
This review returns to the theme of the strains and coping strategies relevant to the parental role in caring for children with significant learning disabilities.
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Further Thoughts on Eating Disorders
The notes in this short review concern, firstly, evidence for a link between forms of eating disorder and personality subtypes among adolescents.
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SCRIP & SERSEN GUIDANCE ON ANNUAL REVIEWS IN INDEPENDENT AND NON-MAINTAINED SPECIAL SCHOOLS
The following Local Authorities and Independent and Non-Maintained Special Schools have signed up to SCRIP & SERSEN’s Guidance on Annual Reviews in Independent and Non-Maintained Special Schools
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Specific Language Impairment, Behaviour, and Development
This review describes a study of the nature and stability of the relationship between speech/language difficulties and behavioural/emotional/social disorders...
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Developing the role of special schools in Hampshire
This publication addresses outreach from special schools in the context of the Change for Children: Every Child Matters agenda. It offers a way to develop strategy and provides a practical operational..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER – RESEARCH UPDATE 38
This set of notes begins with a discussion of the precise nature of the neurological deficit underlying ADHD symptoms and the suggestion is made that the significant areas of processing are those conn..
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ADHD : RESEARCH UPDATE 40
This set of notes begins with quoted reassurance about the apparent lack of risk of medication, but does highlight concerns over the possible misuse of medication...
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER : RESEARCH UPDATE 41
This set of summaries concerns, firstly, the issue of identification and the need for multi-observations and ratings of behaviour, and for care in identifying the precise pattern of needs when comorbi..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER : RESEARCH UPDATE 42
This set of notes begins with an exploration of some reasons why AD(H)D may be under-identified ( notably parental reluctance to approach primary care teams ),..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER : RESEARCH UPDATE 44
This short set of summaries concerns, firstly, the overlap between ADHD and bipolar disorder, and possible means of differentiation. A reference is then made to a study indicating the greater recourse..
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Attention Deficit Disorder : Research Update 45
These notes begin with a reference to body size and weight at birth and the association with behavioural symptoms of ADHD in early childhood with implications for small body size as a marker of risk f..
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Attention Deficit Disorder : Research Update 46
These notes refer, firstly, to the evidence for a connection between ADHD and depression, in terms not only in terms of some overlapping symptoms, but also of a common trend whereby the experience of..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER : RESEARCH UPDATE 47
This set of reported findings begins with a reference to the association between premature birth or low birth weight and enhanced risk for ADHD.
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER : RESEARCH UPDATE 43
This current set of summaries begins with a reference to the course of ADHD and to the factors associated with more severe and persistent symptoms.
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Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder : Genetics, Triggers, and Trajectory
These current summaries concern, respectively, confirmation of the major significance of genetic factors in ADHD ; the significance, too, of environmental factors with foetal alcohol syndrome as an il..
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ADHD : ASSOCIATED OR COMORBID CONDITIONS
This review is concerned with the nature of ADHD and the differences in presentation or in likely response to intervention when the ADHD condition is linked to signs and symptoms of other conditions w..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
This set of summaries begins with a questioning of the genetic, brain-condition based, view of ADHD and a focus, instead, upon nurture and environmental issues...
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AD(H)D : A CURRENT AND BRIEF SUMMATIVE REVIEW
These notes are intended to set out a “ state of play ” situation with regard to AD(H)D, in terms of the aetiology, associated problems, and means of intervention.
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AUTISM : CURRENT ISSUES 45
These summaries begin with further evidence about brain structure anomalies among young children diagnosed with autism. Reference is then made to the apparent significance of paternal age as a factor..
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Autism : Further Evidence for a Range of Aetiologies
les virus.
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AUTISM AND AIR POLLUTION
This brief report is concerned with only one set of research results ( plus reference to some existing studies and to reactions ) but it highlights a further aetiological hypothesis …...
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Visual Processing ( and Social Processing ) in Autism and ASD
Visual Processing ( and Social Processing ) in Autism and ASD
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AUTISM AND ASD INTERVENTIONS AND THEIR EVALUATION
This set of notes begins with a reference to a recent epidemiological study the SonRise approach, social stories.
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Autism and ASD : More Evidence about their Nature and Symptomatology
The topics covered here include sleep patterns among children with autism or ASD and among adults with autism and learning difficulties ; sensory integration and perceptual experience ;..
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This set of notes Autism and ASD : Reducing and Managing (Behavioural) Symptoms
This set of thoughts, summarised from recently published papers, begins with a description of a purpose-built centre for children with ASD and learning difficulties,..
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AUTISM AND APPLIED BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS (LOVAAS) AN UPDATE
n will make rapid and positive progress and those whose progress will be limited.
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Autism and ASD Factors Determining Selective Attention, and Processing
These notes provide some further analysis of the processes involved when stimuli are selected for attention by individuals with ASD, with support for the view that anomalies are largely concerned with..
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AUTISM AND ASD : INTERVENTIONS ( AND THEIR EVALUATION
This set of notes begins with a reference to a recent epidemiological study which holds that the prevalence of autism and ASD is greater that previous estimates have suggested … with implications for..
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Autism and ASD : More Evidence about their Nature and Symptomatology
The topics covered here include sleep patterns among children with autism or ASD and among adults with autism and learning difficulties sensory integration and perceptual experience motor symptoms as..
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RAIN, TELEVISION VIEWING, AND AUTISM
This set of notes describes the thinking behind a recent paper which held that greater exposure to television in infancy could be an environmental trigger for the development of autism and ASD
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Autism and ASD : Reducing and Managing (Behavioural) Symptoms
This set of thoughts, summarised from recently published papers, begins with a description of a purpose-built centre for children with ASD and learning difficulties,..
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Siblings of Children with Autism and ASD
This paper summarises the kind of needs that might apply to a relatively under-evaluated group of children … those with an autistic brother or sister.
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AUTISM : CURRENT ISSUES 44
This summary covers a recent review of evidence concerning the issue of gastro-intestinal factors and perceived links with autism the relationship between language and executive functions the patter..
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AUTISM : CURRENT ISSUES 45
These summaries begin with further evidence about brain structure anomalies among young children diagnosed with autism.Reference is then made to the apparent significance of paternal age as a factor i..
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Autism (ASD) : Ongoing Observations on Aetiology and Characteristics
This review begins with a return to the theory of mirror neuron dysfunction as significant for the source of autistic signs and symptoms and is followed by further references to the significance of th..
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AUTISM AND APPLIED BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS (LOVAAS) : AN UPDATE
These notes represent a summary of two further sources of information and observation. Firstly, conference presentations at ABA Ireland and, secondly,..
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ABA/LOVAAS INTERVENTION REVISITED
This paper returns to the theme of early intervention among young children with autism, and refers, firstly, to a comparison between the effects of a home based ABA programme and those of an LEA progr..
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Autism and ASD : Individuality and Interventions
The focus in these notes is on the idiosyncracies of the learning and social needs among children with autism and the corresponding need for interventions to be based not only upon a general awareness..
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Autism and Gender
These notes return to the theme of the gender imbalance in the numbers of children and young people diagnosed with autism and ASD, with the implied questions whether boys are actually at a greater ris..
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BEHAVIOURAL DIFFICULTIES AND INTERVENTIONS – MISCELLANY 8
This set of summaries begins with references to early signs predictive of later behavioural problems, and to risk factors associated with the individual child and family and environment ( including ne..
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Behavioural Difficulties and Interventions - Miscellany 9
This set of notes covers a number of issues.Firstly, there is support for the hypothesis that personality disorders have their developmental or triggering sources in childhood,..
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BULLYING : DEFINITION(S) AND INTERVENTIONS
The following notes summarise recent debates about the nature of bullying with implications for difficulty in producing an all-encompassing and valid definition.
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Mainstream Inclusion of Deaf Children and Young People
This paper sets out some recently expressed concerns about what is actually meant by inclusion for students who are deaf, what should be involved in the way of strategies and school organisation,..
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DELAYED OR REPEATED INITIAL YEAR OF SCHOOLING
gements, and typically show levels in literacy and numeracy behind those of their age-normal classmates
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Depression in Children and Adolescents : Current Thoughts
The first part of these notes explores whether there has been sharp rise in the prevalence of depression among young people in recent years with the conclusion that,..
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Influences on Developmental Outcomes ( Cognitive and Behavioural )
These summaries refer, firstly, to the ongoing question why season of birth appears to be linked to childhood intelligence or school achievement ( with the suggestion that any link may be largely a ma..
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SCIENTOLOGY, NEW ERA DIANETICS, AND EDUCATION
This set of notes follows up a recent article in the educational press which described the use of Dianetics in a (private) school where most of the teachers and pupils come from a Scientology backgrou..
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ADDENDA TO EXISING NOTES ON …
This set of thoughts was stimulated by a request for further background material to inform casework involving a Year 3 pupil, in a mainstream school, with Down Syndrome whose limited language developm..
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DYSLEXIA (SpLD) : RECENT RESEARCH 51
These notes begin with further evidence for the non-unitary nature of dyslexia and provide illustrations of the range of needs that may be subsumed – visual,..
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DYSLEXIA : RECENT RESEARCH 52
These summaries concern, firstly, some current thoughts on genetic influences upon reading performance.Subsequently, there is reference to the role of deficits in working memory,..
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Dyslexia (SpLD) : RECENT RESEARCH 51
This brief paper summarises the work of one researcher who, contrary to the general trend in opinion, sees value in the use of an IQ-Achievement discrepancy in identifying specific learning difficulty..
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Dyslexia (SpLD) : the Reality but Heterogeneity of the Disability
The theme of this set of thoughts concerns the validity of the difficulties which may fall within the general categories of dyslexia or specific learning difficulty.
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Literacy Difficulties (Dyslexia) at Key Stages 1 and 2
These notes requested as a basis for a short presentation at a working party concerned with strategies to improve reading and spelling ( plus allied skills ) among primary school pupils,..
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Dyslexia : Phonology Weaknesses and Other Learning and Emotional Needs
The issues covered in this review of recent findings include an exploration of the nature of weaknesses, over and above what may be considered core phonological problems,..
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Assessment and Intervention in Dyslexia in Higher or Continuing Education
This paper sets out the context of assessments of suspected dyslexia, then describes the purpose and contents of the Study Scan screening programmes ( a quick screen and a fuller diagnostic assessment..
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DYSLEXIA (SpLD) : A CURRENT AND SUMMATIVE VIEW
This paper summarises some existing review articles in order to set out a
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Dyslexia (SpLD) : A Summary and Overview of the Current Situation
These notes highlight the point reached by research evidence and informed observations in respect of the nature and aetiology of dyslexia …. as set out in two recently published and major articles.The..
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Dyslexia (SpLD) : Recent Research 53
These notes cover two themes.Firstly, a review of the effectiveness of spelling programmes, and an indication of those elements which are most commonly associated with positive progress.Secondly,..
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Young Children, Cross Dressing, and Gender Identity
This set of thoughts was stimulated by a question from an educational psychologist working with parents of a 4-year old boy who expressed concern about his apparently marked identification with being..
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EARLY IDENTIFICATION/PREDICTION OF SPECIAL NEEDS
These summaries begin with a reference to an early years project describing the patterns of risk at the time of school entry and the benefits to be gained via quality pre-school provision.A follow up..
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GUILLAIN – BARRE SYNDROME
A brief report- describing the nature of the syndrome, the symptoms, and its management.
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(Severe) Hearing Impairment
onal provision.
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The Impact of Setting or Mixed-Ability Teaching
This summary of relevant research data was stimulated by a request from the Policy and Development Team for Children of Surrey County Council (Children’s Services).
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INCLUSION : ONGOING THOUGHT AND ISSUES
This set of notes begins with the results of a study which indicates that the inclusion of children with significant SENs does not appear to limit the successful outcomes of schooling for their peers,..
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INTELLIGENCE AND TESTING : RE-VISITING RELEVANT ISSUES
This paper contains a summary of an argument that the particular style and nature of early views of intelligence and the means of assessment were influenced by the prevailing religious doctrines of th..
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( INCREASING ) INTELLIGENCE
A current reference to apparent rises in measured levels of intelligence provided the stimulus for an exploration of the Flynn Effect …. generational shifts observed in some elements of cognitive perf..
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LABELS : SOME QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS
This set of thoughts reflects a personal expression of the perceived usefulness of labels in certain situations or contexts, but also of the perceived dangers,..
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MEMORY : ELEMENTS, PROBLEMS, AND ENHANCEMENT
This paper summarises general information on the nature of memory processes, notably working memory and memory storage, and describes common problems alongside strategies fore averting problems and bu..
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MMR, MEASLES VIRUS, AND AUTISM : A BRIEF UPDATE
aterial in any of the cases
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ONLY CHILDREN : GAINS AND LOSSES
This set of thoughts explores the particular circumstances of the only child with a view to highlighting how experiences and circumstances may be differentiated from what is typical for children who h..
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PARENTS’ ATTRIBUTIONS : LEARNING & BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS
This set of notes explores the way in which parents make causal attributions for any observed weaknesses in achievement or for behavioural difficulties.
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PRECISION TEACHING : PRACTICE AND OUTCOMES
These notes provide a reminder of the nature of Precision Teaching and the way it is implemented. benefits are noted, and reference is made to studies which have demonstrated the effectiveness of this..
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Reading Comprehension : Issues for Assessment and Interpretation of Results
These notes examine the difficulties in gaining a valid measure of the comprehension of what is read.Reference is made to the differences between tests in respect of precisely what is being measured,..
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Engaging the “Resistant” ( Hard-to-Reach ) Parents
These notes discuss the importance of parent-professional partnerships, and the means of averting or dealing with resistance on the part of parents or carers to involvement with teachers and other pro..
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Preparing Children for School Admission : Information for Parents
These notes were prepared to provide some basic data for an LEA working party which will be looking at further ways to ensure that children can gain all they can from their primary schooling.One issue..
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SELECTIVE MUTISM : A REVIEW OF INTERVENTIONS
This summary relates to only one recently published paper ( Cohan S., Chavira D., and Stein M. 2006 Practitioner review psychosocial interventions for children with selective mutism a critical ev..
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SELECTIVE MUTISM : FURTHER THOUGHTS
This set of notes provides a reminder of the nature of selective mutism, aetiology, and interventions, and is a complement to the earlier notes in this series Selective Mutism(July 2000),..
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Specific Language Impairment : Nature, Types, and Outcomes
Reference is made in these notes to the definition and characteristics of specific language impairment and how it can be contrasted with other disorders.
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Stress in Children and Young People
This paper returns to the theme of stress, with particular regard to the sources of stress identified within school circumstances and educational demands.The timing of these thoughts reflects the curr..
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TRIBUNAL ISSUES
These notes, now anonymised, were prepared for a given case and a given set of circumstances, but it is hoped that they may have some wider application or interest given the likelihood that similar is..
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Specific Language Disorder and Pre-School Provision
Specific difficulties or delays in the development of language skills have been subject to increasing attention in recent years, and educational provisions designed for children with language disorder..
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AUTISM AND APPLIED BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS (LOVAAS) AN UPDATE
These notes represent a summary of two further sources of information and observation. Firstly, conference presentations at ABA Ireland and, secondly,..
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EARLY BEHAVIOURAL INTERVENTION VARIABLES AND OUTCOMES
Much of the controversy that has surrounded the whole issue of early and intensive behavioural approaches such as that advocated by Lovaas and his colleagues,
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THE MORE ABLE CHILD - IDENTIFICATION
Summary of methods used for assessing ability
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ABILITY AND ACHIEVEMENT VARIABLES ( and ASSESSMENT )
The following notes provide a miscellaneous set of findings, emerging from recent research, which demonstrate some of the many variables, relating both to individuals and to context or circumstances,..
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Action Research Suggested Framework for Inset
The following notes were prepared in response to a request for ideas for the content of an in-service presentation on the subject of Action Research for an audience likely to comprise,..
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Attention Deficit Disorder Research Update 22
A recent summary of the state of play in ADHD points out the steady rise in the number of children diagnosed with this condition during the last 10 years or so...
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ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
This set of summaries begins with a questioning of the genetic, brain-condition based, view of ADHD and a focus, instead, upon nurture and environmental issues...
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ATTENTION DEFICIT (HYPERACTIVITY) DISORDER
sources.
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ADHD ASSOCIATED OR COMORBID CONDITIONS
This review is concerned with the nature of ADHD and the differences in presentation or in likely response to intervention when the ADHD condition is linked to signs and symptoms of other conditions w..
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AD(H)D A CURRENT AND BRIEF SUMMATIVE REVIEW
These notes are intended to set out a state of play situation with regard to AD(H)D, in terms of the aetiology, associated problems, and means of intervention.
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ATTENTION DEFICIT (HYPERACTIVITY) DISORDER CONSULTATION WITH SCHOOLS
During the Autumn term of 1996, a survey was organised by the Surrey Educational Psychology Service in order to sample the experiences and opinions of school staffs about AD(H)D...
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 10
The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently published a set of guidelines for clinicians to assist in the diagnosis of ADHD which has been estimated to affect between 4 percent and 12 percent of c..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 11
The recent paper by Shapiro (2001) provides a summary of much current thinking, and, even if there is little new in this paper, it might be helpful to refer to this work and to provide a general highl..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 12
A recent review by Wolraich (2000) confirms that ADHD is both the most studied and the most controversial of childhood disorders. For example, reference is made to concerns over the extent to which st..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 13
The work of Korn(2001) may not cover any radically different aspect of ADHD, but it is very valuable to have a further highlighting of significant and ongoing issues within this field...
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 14
They cite the vast number of children referred to clinical services, noting that some studies have indicated a referral rate of 6 percent of school-age boys and 1.5 percent of girls...
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 15
These notes focus upon the way in which ADHD is commonly co-morbid with other conditions, and reference is made particularly to the possible confounding of ADHD and Tourette Syndrome.
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 16
Their paper about possible motivational variation according to the precise nature of the ADHD typology is introduced by Carlson et al (2002) with a reminder that the division of symptoms into two basi..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 17
The recent research paper by Hoza et al (2002), dealing with the self concepts of boys diagnosed with ADHD, starts with a reference to the common assumption that ADHD is associated with lowered self c..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 18
These notes begin with a brief summary of a survey of attitudes among parents, teachers and young people themselves towards the nature and causes of ADHD with some inconsistencies highlighted and a pl..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 19
The authors ( Pary et al 2002 ) begin by highlighting how this condition, involving a permutation of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity, was originally thought to apply only to children but i..
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Attention Deficit Disorder Research Update 2
As set out in previous papers in this series ( and in the County Guidelines ), the use of psychostimulants is a significant part of the treatment of AD(H)D,..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 20
A national study has been completed and reported by Norwich et al (2002 ) who set out to explore the patterns of incidence, as reported by teachers and parents,..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 21
A presentation by Talcott (2003) began with a reference to the commonly observed positive relationship between performance in psychophysical tasks of visual and auditory processing and group or indivi..
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Attention Deficit Disorder Research Update 23
A summary of current information published in the Medscape Specialties' Series (www. medscape.com/viewarticle/452982_2 (May 2003) begins with a reference to diagnostic classification and to the freque..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 24
To pursue a theme begun in this series of papers some while ago, one notes the current summative work of Giedd (2003) in following up three basic questions.
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 25
The paper by Cutting et al (2003) stresses from the outset the critical nature for a child’s success at school of the ability to learn, retain, and recall information especially verbal information...
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 26
Willoughby (2003) begins his paper by a reference to the high incidence of ADHD, and to a number of epidemiological studies which suggest that between 5 and 10 percent of all school-aged children and..
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ADHD RESEARCH UPDATE 27
The paper by Turecki (2003) provides a timely reminder of the complications which stand in the way of a diagnosis of ADHD, and of the need to examine the extent of the difficulties reported as well as..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 28
The work of Sax and Kautz (2003) was instigated to investigate who most commonly, among doctors, teachers, parents, or others, is the first to suggest the possibility of a diagnosis of ADHD in a given..
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Attention Deficit Disorder Research Update 29
In their introduction to research on selective attention, Shalev and Tsal (2003) describe how attention has consistently been perceived as central in information-processing,..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 3
AThere has been the growing implication that language learning disabilities (LLD) are related to attention deficit disorders (ADHD).It is further argued that these two types of disability are among t..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 30
The paper by Durston et al (2004) begins by describing ADHD as a heritable disorder with onset in childhood, where twin and adoption studies have indicated that additive genetic factors can explain up..
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Attention Deficit Disorder Research Update 31
The most recent advice on this topic ( Barclay 2004) restates the link between symptoms of ADHD and certain food additives, with the implication that a simple and initial intervention would usefully i..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 32
The influence of pre-natal factors operating upon the child in terms of enhanced susceptibility to a range of disorders, notably ADHD, is discussed by Van den Bergh and Marcoen (2004)...
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ADHD RESEARCH UPDATE 33
A current research project ( Vermiglio et al 2004) has identified what appears to be a link between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in a child and a moderate iodine deficiency in the mother...
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ATTENTION DEFICT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 34
A current summary from the American Institute of Mental Health offers a reminder that this condition can be identified early in childhood through the observed permutation of observed symptoms of inatt..
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Attention Deficit Disorder Research Update 35
In previous papers in this series (including Research Updates 23, 28, and 32 ), there has been reference to the possible confounding of ADHD with the effects of interrupted sleep associated either wit..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 38
This set of notes begins with a discussion of the precise nature of the neurological deficit underlying ADHD symptoms and the suggestion is made that the significant areas of processing are those conn..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 39
These summaries start with a reference to the management of very young children and the likely concerns over medication.There follows a mention of the possible confounding of sleep problems linked to..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 41
A recent annual summary of research evidence, completed by Tannock (1998), provides much information about attention deficit, as well as a critical review of the findings.This work begins with a resta..
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ADHD RESEARCH UPDATE 40
This set of notes begins with quoted reassurance about the apparent lack of risk of medication, but does highlight concerns over the possible misuse of medication.
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 41
This set of summaries concerns, firstly, the issue of identification and the need for multi-observations and ratings of behaviour, and for care in identifying the precise pattern of needs when comorbi..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 42
ildhood into adulthood plus associated shifts in intervention style.
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Attention Deficit Disorder Research Update 5
nostic manual to the next.
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 6
Sandson et al (2000) introduce their paper concerned with the relationship between ADHD and some deficiency in right hemisphere working by noting that the neurobiological basis for ADHD has not been f..
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 7
review of studies demonstrates how the syndrome may be associated with a wide range of other symptoms and many individuals, for example, also meet the diagnostic criteria for attention deficit disorde..
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Attention Deficit Disorder Research Update 8
The work of Sava (2000) reviews the field of ADHD and points up a number of inconsistencies in the ways in which this construct has been perceived and defined.
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER RESEARCH UPDATE 9
Among ADHD samples, the estimates of the prevalence of learning problems have ranged from 15 percent to 50 percent in respect of reading, 24 percent to 60 percent in respect of maths,..
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ADHD EDUCATIONAL ISSUES ( Text for Conference Presentation )
One principal and ongoing task on the part of the educational psychologist is to ensure that ADHD is seen as a real condition. Perhaps it may sometimes be used as a means of excusing simply non-compli..
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Attention Deficit Disorder and the Use of Stimulants
of specificity of outcome measures.
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ANAPHYLAXIS, ANAPHYLATIC SHOCK AND PREVENTATIVE MEASURES
Over the recent past, there appears to have been (to the present writer at least) an increase in the number of children described to be at risk from anaphylaxis.These short notes,..
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