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not updated — Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder – National Association of Special Education Teachers (copy 1)
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Not until the middle of the twentieth century was there a recognizable clinical label for the range of developmental differences now grouped under Autism Spectrum...
Autism
Autism Topic Categories ABA and Autism Accommodations/Modifications Adults with Autism Advocacy Information Asperger Syndrome Assessment Assistive Technology Audio/Video Tapes Autism Educator Information Books and Publications...
Early Childhood Intervention Program – National Association of Special Education Teachers
Early Intervention (EI) Topic Categories What is EI EI in Your State Who's Who in EI Pediatrics & Health Care Child Find Matters Assessment/Evaluation Practices...
Comprehensive Overview of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Mental Health Is Important Mental health is how people think, feel, and act as they face life's situations. It affects how people handle stress, relate...
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
"I couldn't do anything without rituals. They invaded every aspect of my life. Counting really bogged me down. I would wash my hair three times...
Panic Disorder
"It started 10 years ago, when I had just graduated from college and started a new job. I was sitting in a business seminar in...
Social Phobia
Introduction Anxiety disorders are serious medical illnesses that affect approximately 19 million American adults.1 These disorders fill people's lives with overwhelming anxiety and fear. Unlike...
Overview of Schizophrenia
WHAT IS IT? Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. Approximately 1 percent of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime—more than 2...
Eating Disorders
Eating is controlled by many factors, including appetite, food availability, family, peer, and cultural practices, and attempts at voluntary control. Dieting to a body weight...
Borderline Personality Disorder
Raising questions, finding answers Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior. This instability...
Depression: A Treatable Illness
Depression is a serious medical condition that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one...
Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia
A child's stage of development must be taken into account when considering a diagnosis of mental illness.1 Behaviors that are normal at one age may...
Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Effective treatments for each of the anxiety disorders have been developed through research.19 In general, two types of treatment are available for an anxiety disorder—medication...
Medications
SPECIAL MESSAGEThis summary is designed to help mental health patients and their families understand how and why medications can be used as part of the...
Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Emotional and Behavioral Disorders - Topic Categories Accommodations Adults with Emotional Disturbance Advocacy Information Anxiety Disorders Assessment Assistive Technology Bipolar Disorder Books and Publications Borderline...
Generalized Anxiety
"I always thought I was just a worrier. I'd feel keyed up and unable to relax. At times it would come and go, and at...
Gifted and Talented child gifted talented teaching – National Association of Special Education Teachers
Accommodations and Modifications Gifted readers and reading instruction: Children who have exceptional ability in reading and working with text information are considered gifted readers (Mason &...
Comprehensive Overview of Hearing Impairments
Definition The Education of the Handicapped Act (P.L. 94-142), includes "hearing impairment" and "deafness" as two of the categories under which children with disabilities may...