About a year ago, my 7-year-old daughter was diagnosed with ADHD. It was a relief to know that all of the random, erratic behavior that we were seeing daily was justified. More importantly, it put a n ...

This month’s executive function skill of focus is working memory. As a reminder, executive function (EF) skills are brain-based skills that help us get things done. For those of us with ADHD, we often ...

Have you been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)? Do you have a child or loved one with ADHD? I’m sure that I would have been diagnosed with ADHD as a child, if I hadn’t ...

The literature review was performed across three databases: PubMed, EBSCO, and Web of Science. The search was restricted to English-language articles published from January 2000 to January 2024. To ...

Working memory IEP goals aren’t about “memory drills.” They’re about how a student holds information long enough to use it.

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...