Thought leaders in psychology such as Russell Barkley, Ph.D., and Thomas Brown, Ph.D. have identified ADHD as a disorder of executive functioning. Rather than focusing on the major symptoms of ADHD such as difficulty with sustained attention, not listening, poor organization, forgetfulness in daily activities, restlessness, excessive talking, difficulty awaiting turns, or being fidgety, these experts see executive-functioning deficits as the defining characteristics of ADHD. Interestingly, executive dysfunctions, or difficulty employing executive-functioning skills, are also telltale features of many other psychiatric diagnoses in children. For example, beyond ADHD, children who have learning disabilities display an array of executive dysfunctions that underlie many of their academic struggles. Technically speaking, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-V (DSM-V), which lists all current psychiatric disorders,...
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The literature of neurology is rich and varied, yet it is almost always concerned with understanding. It's concerned with the quest for understanding, hard-earned and often incomplete, and with the value of understanding, and the fundamental differences it can make. This is not surprising. Right near the top of the list of needs, I would argue, a neurology patient needs to be understood - by doctors and nurses, and by the bureaucracy of social care and welfare. Also, a neurology patient often needs to be understood by strangers, the people encountered in shops and when boarding buses. And by family. All patients want to be understood - we all want to be understood in sickness and in health. But neurology...
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I want to cut down on my posts and concentrate on teaching kids remotely. I am currently teaching a 11 year old kid in Kenya, Africa, to read and spell. I have not taught anyone on spelling but I am now reading on that and therefore busy.Katherine Wang who disconnected me on 25.4.2020 has resurfaced and has started harassing me together with her cronies. I don’t want to go down this road but…This is the conversation on messenger between Kathie Wang aka Katherine Billington and me.The comments/explanation in red is now added by me on 15.7.2020.Katherine Wang Children do not Shut down they just get shut out. But this is what happens with kids. If they can't map phonemes to graphemes, they...
