Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

• Anxiety Disorders (PDF File)
• Back-to-School Anxiety (PDF File)
• Famous People with Anxiety Disorders
• Feeling Thermometer (PDF File)
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (PDF File)
• Helping Children Cope with Anxiety about War and Terrorism
• How to Talk to Your Kids About Their Feelings
• Links
• Links - School
• Panic Attacks in School:  Symptoms and Suggested Accommodations for Students
• Panic Disorder (PDF File)
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PDF File)
• Reference Shelf
• Separation Anxiety, School Avoidance, and School Refusal: Overview and Tips
• Separation Anxiety Disorder (PDF File)
• Social Phobia  (Social Anxiety Disorder) (PDF File)

Asperger's -- see PDD

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• A Look at ADHD (PDF File)
• Accommodations for Postsecondary Students wtih ADHD (PDF File)
• ADD and ADHD: An Overview for School Counselors (PDF File)
• ADDults: ADHD in Adulthood
• ADHD and Children Who Are Gifted (PDF File)
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - NIMH (PDF File)
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Fowler (PDF File)
• Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning Disability: United States, 1997 - 1998 (PDF File)
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Differential Diagnoses, Comorbidity, and Prognosis
• Classroom Tips for Dealing with ADHD (PDF File)
• Dual Exceptionalities (PDF File)
• Gifted Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (PDF File)
• Identifying and Treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Resource for Home and School (PDF File)
• International Consensus Statement on ADHD
• Links
• Links - School
• Management of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
• Mis-diagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children: Gifted and LD, ADHD, OCD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (PDF File)
• Monroe County ADHD Task Force Best Practice Manual (PDF File)
• Reference Shelf
• Safety and Accident Risks in ADHD
• Screening Tool for ADHD in Adults
• Teaching Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder:  Instructional Strategies and Practices (PDF File)
• Treatment of ADHD 

Autism -- see PDD 

Executive Dysfunction

• Classroom Tips for Dealing with Executive Dysfunction (PDF File)
• Create a User-Friendly Classroom (PDF File)
• Environmental Cues, Supports, & Strategies
• Daily Goal Card
• Five Homework Strategies for Students with Disabilities (PDF File)
• Helping Your Child with Homework (PDF File)
• House Rules for My Teenager
• Identifying Homework Concerns (PDF File)
• Improving the Quality of Student Notes (PDF File)
• Improving Your Test-Taking Skills (PDF File)
• Links
• Links - School
• Making the A: How to Study for Tests (PDF File)
• Overview of EDF
• Quick Assessment on Child Disorganization (for Parents) (PDF File)
• Reference Shelf
• Daily Goal Card
• Self-Evaluation Sheet
• Screen for Homework Problems (PDF File)
• Screen for Organizational Problems (PDF File)
• Teach Your Child How to Make a Transition
• Tips for Managing Time Issues (versión española, PDF)

Mood Disorders

• A Story of Bipolar Disorder: Does This Sound Like You? (PDF File)
• Accommodating Medication Side Effects (PDF File)
• Bipolar Disorder (PDF File)
• Child and Adolescent Bipolar Disorder: An Update (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips for Accommodating Students with Depression or Bipolar Disorder (PDF File)
• Depression (PDF File)
• Depression and Dysthymia
• Famous People with Mood Disorders
• Helping Children with Early-Onset Bipolar to Learn ( .doc File)
• Ideas for Accommodating Employees with Bipolar Disorder (PDF File)
• Let's Talk About Depression (PDF File)
• Links
• Links - School
• Mutant Gene Linked to Treatment-Resistant Depression
• Reference Shelf
• Screen for Homework Problems (PDF File)
• Stories of Depression: Does This Sound Like You? (PDF File)
• Subtypes of Bipolar Disorder: Overview
• What To Do When a Friend is Depressed (PDF File) 

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Awareness Exercise for Parents
• Awareness Exercise for Teachers (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips for Accommodating Students with OCD (PDF File); (versión española, PDF)
• Compulsiones y obsesiones más frecuentes (PDF)
• Famous People with OCD or Tourette's Syndrome
• "I'm Not Crazy"
• Links
• Mis-diagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children: Gifted and LD, ADHD, OCD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (PDF File)
• NIH Researchers Identify OCD Risk Gene
• OCD: A Real Illness (PDF File)
• OCD and Tourette's Syndrome: A note on "lumpers" vs. "splitters"
• Reference Shelf
• Treatment of OCD 

P.A.N.D.A.S.

• Childhood-Onset Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Tic Disorders: Case Report and Literature Review (PDF File)
• Links
• Overview of "PANDAS" 

Pervasive Developmental Disorders

• Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDF File)
• Autism Spectrum Disorders (Pervasive Developmental Disorders) (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips for Accommodating Students with Asperger's Disorder (PDF File)
• Educational Aspects of Autism Spectrum Disorder (PDF File)
• Links
• Links- School- Aut/Asp
• Links- School- NVLD
• Nonverbal Learning Disability: How to Recognize it and Minimize its Effects 
• Overview of Asperger's Disorder
• Overview of Autism
• Overview of NVLD
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDF File)
• Reference Shelf
• Strategies to Help Youth with NVLD
• Teaching Students with Autism 

Rage Attacks

• Descriptions of Rage Attacks
• Links
• Links - School
• Overview of "Rage Attacks"
• "Rage Attacks" and Personal Responsibility
• Treatment of "Rage Attacks"
• Triggers and Warning Signs
• Reference Shelf 

Sensory Issues

• Links
• Links - School
• Overview of Sensory Integration
• Understanding Sensory Integration (PDF File)
• Reference Shelf 

Sleep Disorders

• Accommodation Ideas for Employees with Sleep Disorders (PDF File)
• Awake at the Wheel (PDF File)
• Awake at the Wheel (Teacher's Guide) (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips:   Accommodating Sleep Disorders (PDF File)
• Establishing Good Sleep Habits for Your Child (PDF File)
• Fact Sheet About Insomnia (PDF File)
• Fact Sheet About Problem Sleepiness (PDF File)
• Overview of Sleep Disorders
• Screen for Sleep Problems (PDF File)
• Test Your Sleep I.Q. (PDF File)
• zzzzzz.... How Much Sleep is Enough? (PDF File)
• Awake at the Wheel (PDF File) 

Tics and Tourette's

• "The Animals Inside Me" (PDF File)
• Awareness Exercise for Parents
• Awareness Exercise for Teachers (PDF File)
• Chart of Common Tics (PDF File); (versión española, PDF)
• Classroom Tips for Accommodating Students with Tics or Tourette's Syndrome (PDF File); (versión española, PDF)
• Conducting a Peer Education Program on Tourette's (PDF File); (versión española, PDF)
• Educating Children with Tourette Syndrome (PDF File)
• Famous People with Tourette's Syndrome
• Increasing the Effectiveness of Education for Students with Tourette Syndrome (PDF File)
• Letter to Parents (PDF File)
• Links
• Links-School
• OCD and Tourette's Syndrome: A note on "lumpers" vs. "splitters"
• Overview of Tics and Tourette's
• Reference Shelf
• Reflections (PDF File)
• Research Studies Seeking Participants
• School-Based Occupational Therapy Services for Children With Tourette Syndrome  (PDF File)
• Tic Disorders and Tourette Syndrome School Care Plan (PDF File)
• Treatment of Tourette's

Behavior

• "The "Acid Test" (PDF File)
• Applying Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques to Social Skills Instruction (PDF File)
• Bullying in Adolescence: The Role of the Peer Group (PDF File)
• Deliberate Self-Harm in Young People (PDF File)
• Functional Behavior Assessment: Overview for Parents
• Hone Your Skills (or PDF File)
• Interventions for Chronic Behavior Problems (PDF File)
• Is Behavior Modification Appropriate?
• Links
• Pitfalls in Behavior Modification (PDF File)
• Preventing Bullying (PDF File)
• Reflections of a Former Rat Runner (PDF File)
• Self-Mutilation (PDF File)
• Self-Regulation through Goal Setting (or PDF File)
• Seven Successful Strategies for Preventing Challenging Behaviors in Young Children (PDF File)
• Suspending Disbelief (PDF File)
• Taking Stock of Risk Factors for Child/Youth Externalizing Behavior Problems (PDF File)
• Teaching Decision Making to Students With Learning Disabilities by Promoting Self-Determination (or PDF File)
• What Do You Mean by "Behavior?"

Education

• Accommodations for Postsecondary Students wtih ADHD (PDF File)
• Accommodations Most Often Allowed in State Policies
• Acronyms and Glossary for Special Education (PDF File)
• ADD and ADHD: An Overview for School Counselors (PDF File)
• ADHD and Children Who Are Gifted (or PDF File)
• Advocacy Tutorial for Parents (PDF File or zipped PDF File)
• Assistive Technology for Students with Mild Disabilities: Update 2002 (or PDF File)
• Auditory Processing Disorders: An Overview (or PDF File)
• Awake at the Wheel (PDF File)
• Awake at the Wheel (Teacher's Guide) (PDF File)
• Awareness Exercise for Teachers - OCD (PDF File)
• Awareness Exercise for Teachers - Tics (PDF File)
• Back-to-School Anxiety (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips: Tips: Accommodating Medication Side Effects (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips:  Accommodating Students with ADHD (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips: Accommodating Students with Asperger's Disorder (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips: Accommodating Students with Executive Dysfunction (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips for Accommodating Students with Mood Disorders (Depression and Bipolar Disorder) (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips: Accommodating Students with OCD (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips:   Accommodating Students with Sleep Disorders (PDF File)
• Classroom Tips: Accommodating Students with Tics or Tourette's Syndrome (PDF File)
• The College Search (PDF File)
• Conducting a Peer Education Program on Tourette's (PDF File)
• Create a User-Friendly Classroom (PDF File)
• Developing Social Competence for All Students (or PDF File)
• Dual Exceptionalities (or PDF File)
• Educating Children with Tourette Syndrome (PDF File)
• Educational Aspects of Autism Spectrum Disorder (PDF File)
• Feeling Thermometer (PDF File)
• Five Homework Strategies for Students with Disabilities (or PDF File)
• Getting Ready to Go Back to School -- in June?? (PDF File)
• Gifted Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (or PDF File)
• Helping Children with Early-Onset Bipolar to Learn ( .doc File)
• Helping Students with Disabilities Succeed in State and District Writing Assessments (or PDF File)
• Helping Your Child with Homework (PDF File)
• Identifying and Treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Resource for Home and School (PDF File)
• Improving the Quality of Student Notes (PDF File)
• Improving Your Test-Taking Skills (PDF File)
• Increasing the Effectiveness of Education for Students with Tourette Syndrome (PDF File)
• Links
• Making the A: How to Study for Tests (PDF File)
• Monroe County ADHD Task Force Best Practice Manual (PDF File)
• Nonverbal Learning Disability: How to Recognize It and Minimize Its Effects
• Occupational Therapy in Educational Settings Under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (PDF File)
• Panic Attacks in School:  Symptoms and Suggested Accommodations for Students
• Parents: Note Your Homework Concerns (PDF File)
• Parents: Organizing Your Concerns (PDF File)
• Parents: Preparing for a Meeting with Your Child's Committee on Special Education (PDF File)
• Parent Tools: Requesting School Accommodations for Your Child (PDF File)
• Requesting School Accommodations for Your Child (PDF File)
• School Library
• School-Based Occupational Therapy Services for Children With Tourette Syndrome  (PDF File)
• Screen for Homework Problems (PDF File)
• Screen for Organizational Problems (PDF File)
• Screen for Sleep Problems (PDF File)
• Separation Anxiety, School Avoidance, and School Refusal: Overview and Tips
• Separation Anxiety Disorder (PDF File)
• Teaching Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder:  Instructional Strategies and Practices (PDF File)
• Teaching Students with Autism
• Tic Disorders and Tourette Syndrome School Care Plan (PDF File)
• Tips for Students (PDF File)
• Warning Signs of Learning Disabilities (or PDF File)

Home Page and Miscellaneous Files:

• About the Site Author and Site
• Advocacy Tutorial for Parents (PDF File or zipped PDF File)
• Alternative Treatments or Complementary Medicine
• Awards This Site Has Won
• Brain Facts: A Primer on the Brain and Nervous System (PDF File, large)
• Cautionary Notes on Heat-Related Illness
• Contact Form
• Glossary of Clinical Terms (PDF File or zipped