Forty years ago, my father participated on the Commission on Emotional and Learning Disorders in Children that issued a report called «One Million Children» providing a blueprint for meeting the needs of one million Canadian children with
primary learning disorders.
Not exact matches
One thing that I have
learned is that, although there may be a
primary disorder, there is usually a spectrum of
disorders in clinical mental illness.
The Livity School is a
primary school for children with complex needs, including global
learning delay, cerebral palsy, Autism Spectrum
Disorder, epilepsy and other medical conditions.
Ultimately, I
learned that the
primary issue behind my mood
disorder was the standard American diet that I had eaten my entire life.
These disabilities can be accompanied by emotional, social, and behavioral
disorders, including attention deficits, but they can not, in the federal definition, be the
primary cause of the
learning disabilities.
In the evaluation of a child for ADHD, the
primary care clinician should include assessment for other conditions that might coexist with ADHD, including emotional or behavioral (eg, anxiety, depressive, oppositional defiant, and conduct
disorders), developmental (eg,
learning and language
disorders or other neurodevelopmental
disorders), and physical (eg, tics, sleep apnea) conditions (quality of evidence B / strong recommendation).
Action statement 3: In the evaluation of a child for ADHD, the
primary care clinician should include assessment for other conditions that might coexist with ADHD, including emotional or behavioral (eg, anxiety, depressive, oppositional defiant, and conduct
disorders), developmental (eg,
learning and language
disorders or other neurodevelopmental
disorders), and physical (eg, tics, sleep apnea) conditions (quality of evidence B / strong recommendation).
He has worked with severe
primary psychiatric
disorders, developmental / cognitive
disorders, severe
learning disorders, substance abuse, suicide prevention and grief counseling.
ADHD frequently co-occurs with additional emotional, behavioral, and
learning problems in community and
primary care settings, with disruptive behavior
disorders being most common, followed by internalizing and
learning problems.
«In the evaluation of a child for ADHD, the
primary care clinician should include assessment for other conditions that might coexist with ADHD, including emotional or behavioral (e.g., anxiety, depressive, oppositional defiant, and conduct
disorders), developmental (e.g.,
learning and language
disorders or other neurodevelopmental
disorders), and physical (e.g., tics, sleep apnea) conditions.»