Special Needs Blog Week in Review – March 4 – 11, 2012

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Jen Thorpe

What did you miss this week? The Special Needs Blog Week in Review is a quick and easy way to catch up on everything that hit the blog in a given week. If you are short on time, you can skim through the titles, and pick out the ones that interest you the most. There are links that will take you directly to the full articles. The Special Needs Podcast Roundup went up on March 5, 2012. This week, I’d like to point out an episode of Raising Arizona Kids Magazine called “A conversation with Kaitlin MacKay”. She received a … Continue reading →

Study Says ADHD Over-Diagnosed in Youngest Classmates

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Jen Thorpe

A study finds that the youngest kids in the class are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than are their older peers. Researchers say that the younger children are less mature than peers, and this is being misdiagnosed as ADHD. A study done by researchers in British Columbia was recently published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The researchers focused on 1 million children from British Columbia. In the United States, the cut off date for entering school might be late August, or early September. In British Columbia, the cut off date for any given school year is December … Continue reading →