B. Other Health Impairments: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

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Important resources will be  CDE's Special Education OHI website with extensive resources and your own district's website.  This is your opportunity to investigate what online information and resources your district has provided to families, educators, and specialists.

Our course's shared folder with more resources.  

Again, we encourage you to check for resources in your district and consider other online resources you might find.

All the videos and websites listed on this page are optional resources for your use.  For any video, once the video begins, you can click on the title for it to open in a different window on YouTube.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)

Child Mind: What’s ADHD (and What’s Not) in the Classroom

Misunderstood Minds - Try as many simulations as you would like, but we recommend that you try the Auditory Activity first.  When they pause the presentation to do the simulation, it should take about 5-7 minutes to finish.  So, how did you do? Think about being in a class of 27 to over 30 students ... Not an easy task

“ADD Traits in Famous and Talented People ... a scrapbook”. (A blog identifying famous people whose strengths were developed because of, or in spite of, ADHD-type behaviors.)

“My ADHD Teaching Strategies That Benefit All Students."

Some ADHD Stats -- Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) https://chadd.org/about-adhd/general-prevalence/

Books to Consider...

Smart but Scattered by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare

Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education by Elena Bodrova and Deborah Long

For students:

Learning Outside the Lines: Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools for Academic Success and Educational Revolution by Jonathan Mooney, David Cole, and Edward M. Hallowell

Other Website Resources

Understood.org

ADDitude

Harvard Center for Child Development

Stacey Turis, author of adhdsuperhero blog

www.everydayhealth.com

Cynthia Z. Hansen

References and Resources (Optional or bookmark for later reference)

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association.

Baum, S., Olenchak, F. R., & Owen, S. Gifted Students with Attention Deficits: Fact and/or Fiction? Or, Can We See the Forest for the Trees? Gifted Child Quarterly 1998. 42(2) 96-104

Cramond, B. (1995).  The Coincidence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Creativity.  (Research monograph RBDM9508). Storrs, CT: The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, University of Connecticut. Retrieved from  http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt/nrconlin.html#9508

Baum, S., Olenchak, F. R., & Owen, S. Gifted Students with Attention Deficits: Fact and/or Fiction? Or, Can We See the Forest for the Trees? Gifted Child Quarterly 1998. 42(2) 96-104

Cramond, B. (1995).  The Coincidence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Creativity.  (Research monograph RBDM9508). Storrs, CT: The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, University of Connecticut. Retrieved from  http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt/nrconlin.html#9508

Neihart. M. (2004). Gifted children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ERIC Digest #E649). http://www.ldonline.org/article/gifted children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Webb, J. T., et  al. (2005) Misdiagnoses and dual diagnoses of gifted children and adults: ADHD, bipolar, Asperger’s, depression, and other disorders.  Scottsdale, AZ: Great Potential Press

YouTube: Neuroscience and ADD in Gifted Children, Dr. Layne Kalbfleish, October 27, 2011

YouTube: ADHD as a Difference in Cognition; Not a Disorder, Stephan Tonti,

Foley-Nicpon, M., Rickels, H., Assouline, S. Richards, A. Self-Esteem and Self-Concept Examination Among Gifted Students with ADHD, Journal for the Education of the Gifted. 2012, 35(3), 220-240

Gladstein, M. (2013).  Executive functioning, self-questioning, and student success.  2e Newsletter, 57, 4-6.

Kaufman, F., Kalbfleish, M.L., & Castellanos, F.X.  (2004), Attention deficit disorders and gifted students: What do we really know? NRC-Gt Newsletter, Fall, 2004.  Retrieved from http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt/newsletter/fall00/fall004/html

Lovecky, D. (2004). Different minds: Gifted children with ADHD, Asperger syndrome, and other learning deficits. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Misunderstood Minds, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/attention.html

Foley-Nicpon, M., Rickels, H., Assouline, S. Richards, A. Self-Esteem and Self-Concept Examination Among Gifted Students with ADHD, Journal for the Education of the Gifted. 2012, 35(3), 220-240

Gladstein, M. (2013).  Executive functioning, self-questioning, and student success.  2e Newsletter, 57, 4-6.

Kaufman, F., Kalbfleish, M.L., & Castellanos, F.X.  (2004),  Attention deficit disorders and gifted students: What do we really know? NRC-Gt Newsletter, Fall, 2004.  Retrieved from http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt/newsletter/fall00/fall004/html

Lovecky, D. (2004). Different minds: Gifted children with ADHD, Asperger syndrome, and other learning deficits. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.