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Dominic Fitzpatrick; Richard Parker – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
Background: Children and young people (CYP) with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities are more likely to experience difficulties engaging for long periods. Finding ways to facilitate their engagement is crucial in promoting their social and emotional development and their mental well-being, particularly as they are more vulnerable…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Learning Disabilities, Severe Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities
Durall, John K. – Camping Magazine, 1999
Explains characteristics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): delay in self-regulation; living in the moment; difficulty remaining focused; lag in social development; and the positive characteristics of intuition, spontaneity, energy, creativity, and artistic skills. Sidebars discuss a neurobiological understanding of ADHD and tips…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Disorders, Camping, Child Behavior
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Davison, Judy C. – Journal of Educational Thought/Revue de la Pensee Educative, 2001
Questions the rising incidence of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) diagnosis in the United States. Suggests that AD/HD is a socially constructed phenomenon rather than biologically based. Urges educators, medical personnel, and parents to take a holistic view of each child, with a serious examination of the wide range of causation…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Child Behavior, Children, Clinical Diagnosis