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Gathering disruptive children into one room to learn social skills leaves about a quarter of them worse than before. They pick things up from each other far faster than from the adult at the front.
This is not a reason to give up on helping a child socially. It is a reason to look hard at who else is in the group before you accept a place in it.…
The warning about group social skills work is about loud, disruptive children. A quiet, anxious child who simply has not had much practice with other children is a different case, and a gentle group may be exactly right.
So the question is not whether groups work, but which child is sitting in front of you. If the difficulty really is inexperience, a group offers…
If therapy for ADHD did little for your thirteen year old, that is not a sign they were not trying. The self monitoring it leans on is still being built at that age, and it builds later in ADHD than in most.
The practical reading is about timing rather than willingness. Younger teenagers usually do better when the adults around them change the setup at…
Play based programmes that build executive skills in young children have done reasonably well with children at risk of struggling at school. None has yet been tested in children actually diagnosed with ADHD, and that is a real difference rather than a technicality.
Results found in a broad at risk group tend to shrink, sometimes to nothing, when the same thing is tried with clinically diagnosed children, where…
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