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The National Center for Education Statistics says that 13.8 percent of students learning English in the United States have a disability. The statistics include both physical and learning disabilities. Sara Kangas is an assistant professor at Lehigh University. She has researched English language... Read more »
With motivation a key component of academic success, a Mountaintop team has been building an app to measure the link between students’ motivation and their emotional reactions to being presented with school work, particularly math.
The app will be the first to give middle and high school students the ability to report on their own... Read more »
CHADD is pleased to present Matthew J. Gormley, PhD, and Jaclyn Kamradt, MA, as winners of the 2017 Young Scientist Research Awards competition. Dr. Gormley and Ms. Kamradt will each receive $1,000 along with recognition in November during the 2017 Annual International Conference on ADHD in Atlanta, Georgia. They will also receive a... Read more »
By the time healthy, typically developing children reach age 3, they will have developed the essential cognitive, language and social-emotional competencies that lay the foundation for future success. If children experience delays during this critical period, early intervention can help maintain an appropriate developmental trajectory.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends behavior therapy support as a first line of treatment for preschool-age children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But limited availability of clinicians, cost, transportation and child-care challenges—and reliance on... Read more »