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Thousands of Young New York Children With Disabilities Not Receiving Early Intervention Services

February 28, 2023 Therapeutic and support services available through New York’s Early Intervention (EI) Program are vital for infants and toddlers with disabilities, but an audit released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found many young children did not receive services or faced delays in care. The audit recommended the New York State...

ADHD: Medication alone doesn’t improve classroom learning for children – new research

ADHD: Medication alone doesn’t improve classroom learning for children – new research William E. Pelham, Jr., Florida International University For decades, many physicians, parents and teachers have believed that stimulant medications help children with ADHD learn because they are able to focus and behave better when medicated. After all, an estimated 6.1 million children in...

Tourette Syndrome, 2nd Edition Now Available

After a lengthy delay due to the pandemic, we are pleased to announce that the second edition of Martino and Leckman’s Tourette Syndrome is now available for pre-order. We were honored to contribute a chapter for educators. You can find the table of contents and other information on the book on Oxford University Press’s...

Long-term Outcomes for Youth with ADHD

If you are thinking that ADHD does not need treatment  — or that “boys will be boys” — or that your child will just grow up and out of ADHD, you may want to find out more about a long-term study by Di Lorenzo, Balducci, Pippi, and their colleagues. The investigators reviewed studies that...