by Jim Gillen | May 20, 2016 | ADHD, Attention / Focus
Just because school is ending for the year doesn’t mean that learning stops. Silent Ball, included in our Online Certification Bundle, is a fun game kids can play outdoors (or in) to develop executive function skills that are critical for learning and self-control....
by Lynea Gillen | Feb 28, 2016 | ADHD, Behavior
When I first began working as a school counselor, I sometimes got frustrated with children who didn’t seem to apply the social/emotional lessons I taught them. “Why don’t they get it?” I asked my colleague Anne Bagwell, a counselor and an amazing mentor. “I explain...
by Jim Gillen | Mar 19, 2014 | ADHD, Attention / Focus, Tips
Judge by rising rates of ADHD diagnoses and medication prescriptions (quintupling over the past 12 years), it would seem that we’ve really got a national epidemic at hand. Or do we? A recent New York Times article reveals some disturbing news: The rise of A.D.H.D....
by Jim Gillen | Feb 8, 2012 | ADHD
Joseph, a five year old boy diagnosed with ADHD, was making good progress in yoga class at school. He was coming to friendship group once a week, and his mom and dad were working with me [Lynea] on parenting skills. For Joseph, change came slowly but consistently. He...
by Jim Gillen | Oct 12, 2011 | ADHD, Tips, Workshops
As we mentioned last time, the line between “normal” and behavior that signals ADHD can seem fuzzy at times. ADHD is marked by a weakness in the ability to sustain, shift or divide attention, coupled with a biologically-based weakness in the ability to control...
by Jim Gillen | Oct 6, 2011 | ADHD
We all know that ADHD is rampant – but just how much is “rampant,” exactly? As they say on Marketplace, “Let’s do the numbers.” As of 2007, almost 10% of children between the ages of 4 and 17 had been diagnosed with ADHD at some point in their young lives. Most of...
