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Children With ADHD More Likely to Be Moderately Disabled After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

July 9, 2013

12 July 2013, ADHD, Newsletter, TBI

[Source: Science Daily] Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Chicago have found that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more likely to demonstrate a moderate disability after sustaining a mild traumatic brain…...

July 9, 2013

12 July 2013, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Sensory processing disorders (SPD) are more prevalent in children than autism and as common as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, yet it receives far less attention partly because it’s never been recognized as a distinct disease. In a groundbreaking new…...

July 9, 2013

12 July 2013, ADHD, Newsletter, OT, PT

Thanks to Loren Shlaes, OTR/L for forwarding this excellent article. Loren has written for PediaStaff several times on this subject both on our blog and on our behalf for Minds in Bloom. Thanks, Loren for thinking of us again! [Source: The Atlantic]…...

July 8, 2013

12 July 2013, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: Thank you to our friends at Reading Rockets for recommending this resource [Source: Reading Rockets] TED playlists were a new concept to me. As the name suggests, talks on similar topics are gathered together to form a playlist. One…...

July 8, 2013

12 July 2013, ADHD, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily.com] Sleep consolidates emotional memories in healthy children but not in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to research published May 29 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Alexander Prehn-Kristensen and colleagues from University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein. The…...

July 8, 2013

[Source: The New Yorker] Few things are harder to study than human language. The brains of living humans can only be studied indirectly, and language, unlike vision, has no analogue in the animal world. Vision scientists can study sight in monkeys using…...

July 8, 2013

[Source: Medical News Today] Neuralstem, Inc. announced that a paper published today in the journal, STEM CELL RESEARCH AND THERAPY, showed that rats transplanted with its spinal cord-derived human neural stem cells, NSI-566, three days after a spinal cord injury at L3…...

July 4, 2013

5 July 2013, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: We just got the sweetest photo that we had to share with everyone! Patrick Moon is a compassionate and energetic Physical Therapist who has been working for PediaStaff at one of our school district in New Mexico for the past…...

July 3, 2013

News, Newsletter, OT, Physical Education, PT

[Source: Science Daily] Levels of physical inactivity and obesity are very high in children, with fewer than 50% of primary school-aged boys and fewer than 28% of girls meeting the minimum levels of physical activity required to maintain health. Exergaming, using active…...

July 3, 2013

5 July 2013, News, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Medical News Today] Nearly 20% of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder, and the number has been increasing for over a decade, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).…...