In Reversal, Student Is Given Extra Exam Time to Pump Breast Milk – New York Times
In Reversal, Student Is Given Extra Exam Time to Pump Breast Milk
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By ELIZABETH OLSON
Published: September 27, 2007
A Harvard student must be given extra break time during a medical licensing exam to pump breast milk, a Massachusetts appeals court judge ruled yesterday.
Shelby County Reporter – News > Mother’s struggle inspires group
Mother’s struggle inspires group
By KATHLEEN JOHNSTON / Staff Writer / Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 3:28 PM CDT
When her 3-year-old misspoke words, pronouncing tote instead of coke, Krista Guy of Chelsea thought it was cute. When the problem persisted past toddler years, she realized something might be wrong.
After heavy research and expensive tests, Guy learned her soon-to-be third-grader, Logan, was dyslexic.
“I was scared to death,” she said.
But when answers and help didn’t come easily, her fear quickly turned to frustration.
“Everywhere I called, basically they would say, ‘Oh, if you lived in Texas, or if you lived in Washington,” Guy said.
ATL schools ordered to pay thousands for private tuition | ajc.com
Atlanta schools told to pay up to $136,600 for private tuition
Student’s dyslexia was misdiagnosed
By KRISTINA TORRES
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/23/07
A federal judge has ordered Atlanta Public Schools to pay for a former student misdiagnosed as mentally disabled to go to private school to get his high school diploma.
The student, Jarron Draper, now 20, has been out of school since June, stocking shelves at Target and working full time as a security guard while he and his family fought for an education that he hopes will get him into college.
School psychologists evaluated Draper as “mildly intellectually disabled” in 1998, when he was a fourth-grader. Five years later, he was still reading at about a third- or fourth-grade level when he was found instead to have a learning disability: dyslexia.
From Rock Star To Pre-Med – CBS News
From Rock Star To Pre-Med
BBC NEWS | Health | Hyperactivity cure hopes raised
Hyperactivity cure hopes raised
United Press International – Consumer Health – The Age of Autism: Nuts
The Age of Autism: Nuts
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Drastic reactions to nuts, (multiple) allergies, and autism..related?
One theory says that immunization shots could be the common factor that links them…
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Old20Algonquin20Books20-20John20Dunning20Bio20Page
John20Dunnings20Biography
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This gives an interesting ‘peek’ into one author’s background.
Yes, has does have more than two books to his credit…if you can find a copy, BUY IT!
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Scientists Tie Two Additional Genes to Dyslexia – New York Times
Scientists Tie Two Additional Genes to Dyslexia
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Dyslexia caused by faulty genes?
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ADD / ADHD – attention deficit disorder
“… thought to have been – or are currently – ADD and/or ADHD…
The following is a list of just a few of these very famous people who used
their high energy and creativity to become successful adults. What would
our world be like if they had been labeled, ridiculed, and discounted as
troublemakers or hyperactive misfits?
Einstein
Leonardo DaVinci
Socrates
Mozart
Beethoven
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Steven Spielberg
Henry David Thoreau
Woodrow Wilson
Bill Cosby
Edgar Allen Poe
Nolan Ryan
John F. Kennedy
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whoopi Goldberg
Ernest Hemingway
Dustin Hoffman
Abraham Lincoln
Galileo
William Randolph Hearst
George Bernard Shaw
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat
Ann Bancroft
Magic Johnson
John Lennon
Nostradamus
John D. Rockefeller
Michael Jordan
Pete Rose
Bruce Jenner
Napoleon
General George Patton
Pablo Picasso
Babe Ruth
Harry Belafonte
George Burns
Andrew Carnegie
Salvador Dali
Dwight D. Eisenhower
William Butler Yeats
Prince Charles
Louis Carroll
Eleanor Roosevelt
Louis Pasteur
from article: 26 Positive Things about ADD and 46 Famous People With ADD – by Katherine West
ADD / ADHD – attention deficit disorder
from article ADD Grows Up
[CBS News]
“A lot of adults have this condition. And most of them don’t know they have it,” says author and psychiatrist Dr. Edward Hallowell, who says that millions of Americans, including himself, actually have a medical condition.
“Most people haven’t known about it, but it’s been around for as long as there have been people,” says Hallowell. “If you look at the core symptoms of ADD — distractibility, impulsivity, restlessness — goes back for thousands of years.”
Until recently, these symptoms were considered to be annoying personality quirks, like chronic lateness. But now, the condition has a name – Adult ADD – and a pill to treat it.
“It can be as effective as eyeglasses. It can really improve mental focus,” says Hallowell. “Someone goes from tremendous underachievement to reclaiming their life. Not only professionally, but personally.
“Marriages are saved. Families are saved. Careers are saved…. [But] the difficult differential diagnosis is how do you tell a case of ADD from a severe case of modern life.” ///
But some ADD sufferers say medication isn’t always the answer. David Neeleman says he always knew his brain worked a little differently from the rest.
“I scored so low on the English portion of the ACT test that my counselor hauled me in and said, ‘David, had you just answered ‘C’ on every question, you would’ve done better. You would’ve done 30 percent better than what you did,’†says Neeleman.
He spent years in various jobs, in a sort of limbo, before he realized he had a clear-cut case of ADD. Even so, he’s a huge success. He’s CEO of Jet Blue, the low-cost, no-frills carrier that has shaken up the airline industry.
Neeleman says many of his out-of-the-box ideas are thanks to his ADD. “In the midst of all the chaos in your mind, and all of the disorganization, and all the trouble getting started, and procrastination, your brain just thinks a little bit differently,” he says. “And you can come up with things.”
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Worth a read…
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O-Mega-zen-3, vegan DHA, vegetarian DHA — Detox Your World O-Mega-Zen-3 vegan DHA
The Need for DHA Supplementation
Low levels of DHA have been found in persons with:
* Heart Disease
* High Blood Pressure
* Cancer
* Alzheimer’s Disease
* Attention Deficit Disorder
* Depression
* Insomnia
* Stress
* Hyperactivity
* Dyslexia
On the other hand, DHA supplementation has been shown to improve all of the conditions listed above, and more.
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This is getting involved.. .will have to do some more reading on this.
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BBC – Science & Nature – Human Body and Mind – The Omega Wave
The Omega wave
Fish oils are supposed to boost our brainpower. But do the facts really stack up? We went in search of the evidence.
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Interesting…food for thought (no pun intended).
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Ocala.com | Star-Banner | Ocala, Fla.
Lifting the stigma
National ADHD Awareness Day helps bring attention to common psychological disorder
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Do you know someone this description fits?
I think I know several…
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“Not to know what happened
before you were born is to be forever a child.”
– CICERO
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Good quote!
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