[Source:  Philly.com]

Although learning to drive may be a rite of passage for most teens, teens with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may need extra help in navigating the road to licensure. The symptoms of ADHD - difficulty with attention, challenges with emotion regulation, disorganization and impulsivity - heighten a teen's risk for unsafe driving behaviors and crashes. The presence of ADHD increased a teen's crash risk by two to four times, placing 

by Jenna Rayburn of The Speech Room News

Part of my role at our district early childhood center is to complete incoming evaluations for children entering the program. We have about half of our students come from the state birth to three program (Help Me Grow) and half community referrals.

I get to work with new families each week and sometimes I'm the very first speech-language pathologist they have worked with or met. Other times, they're experienced with 

Teresa Roberts, MS, CCC-SLP

Your career is a marathon - not a sprint. Perhaps you are still operating at the breakneck pace of graduate school, completing one activity as fast as you can before moving on to the next task. Months and months of assignment after assignment, followed by test after test, can affect your behavioral patterns once you begin your first job. Graduate school has a defined end point. You are only in grad school for a couple of years. The funny thing about working in a career is that the end point is usually 30 years from when you begin. Thirty years is a long time to work absolutely as fast as you can.

by Loren Shlaes, OTR/L

As pediatric therapists, we've all had more than our share of anxious, high arousal children on our caseloads.    As one mother commented to me recently, "He's always seemed as if he's miswired."

These are the children who need constant reassurance, who can't be flexible, who need to know what is coming next and can't cope with changes in their routine.  Their mothers will tell you that it's a constant balancing act to gauge how much information with which to supply the child about future plans at any given time. If he knows too much about what is going to happen, he tends to become obsessed, asking endless questions, and if he knows too little,