LearningRx1 September, 2013 | http://www.learningrx.org - Part 3

Half of kids with ASD have ADHD

Sep 18, 2013 by

Could a child have both autism and ADHD? About two-thirds of kids with ADHD have another condition, with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) being the most common. And likewise, about half of kids with ASD also have ADHD....

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Couple creates game to diagnose and treat ADHD

Sep 17, 2013 by

A couple in Minnesota have created a new game that helps diagnose and help cognitive disorders like ADHD. CogCubed was founded by a husband and wife team, a game developer and child psychiatrist, respectively....

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Attention impairments no key component of autism

Sep 16, 2013 by

New research says that attention impairments are not a key component of autism. And although children with autism often have attention disorders, it’s not the case in all autistic children. Two attention abilities specifically—moving attention fluidly and orienting to...

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Should Asperger’s be separate than autism in the DSM-5?...

Sep 15, 2013 by

Compared to children with autism, children with Asperger’s have different brain patterns (as seen on EEGs), making some wonder if they should be classified separately in the DSM-5, rather than lumped together....

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Dyscalculia may sometimes be due to biology

Sep 14, 2013 by

Research out of Austria suggests that dyscalculia may sometimes be due to biology; in other words, they are born with a deficit that causes them to have an “imprecise internal representation of numbers.”...

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Autistic brains are different, not deficient, when doing math...

Sep 13, 2013 by

Children with autism who display strong math abilities have different – not deficient – brain patterns when doing calculations. The Stanford researchers want people to start thinking about autistic brains in a new light: special, not broken....

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