Here is information on a great Conference next summer in beautiful British Columbia.

The 2nd Biennial Conference on Brain Development & Learning: Making Sense of the Science Conference in Vancouver, July 12-15, 2008.

This conference is intended as a service to the community (British Columbia and worldwide), to help parents, doctors, educators, and others who work with young children on a daily basis learn about some of the most exciting cutting-edge research findings on the brain and child development-from the very people who have made those discoveries!

A number of the speakers are world famous for their research on the Pre-Frontal Cortex and ADHD, or research on stress and depression. The conference is sponsored by BC Children's Hospital, the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), the Brain Research Centre, BC Mental Health & Addiction Services of PHSA, and UBC.

For more information, visit the Conference web site: htt p://www.interprofessional.ubc.ca/bdl.html

Parents: Your Child and School

It is the time of year when ADHD kids start to "hit the wall" at school. Are you seeing this in your home?

Imagine the most difficult environment for a child who has difficulty sitting still, difficulty paying attention, and loves to talk to other children?

Imagine that this child has to go into this environment every day, and is expected to perform successfully.

This describes your child's classroom setting. There are a lot of distractions, yet they are told to sit still, don't move, don't talk. They must pay attention to boring worksheets, and keep on task until the work is finished. None of these things come easily to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder kids. But day by day, off to school they go.

Many ADHD kids "hit a wall" in school as the school year progresses. Every week they just get a little farther and farther behind, until they're so far behind that it's impossible to catch up. They lose their homework assignments, even after they have spent hours working on them. And they study hard for tests only to perform poorly the next day. They just slip farther and farther behind with each passing week.

ADHD is most often recognized and referred for treatment in third grade.This is when kids usually hit the "academic wall" for the first time, and the parents search for some help. We also see many referrals when the child leaves Elementary School for Junior High School, with several classes and several teachers. Many ADHD kids who found ways to compensate in Elementary School are totally lost in Junior High School.

How can we help these children to be more successful in school?

Begin by learning more about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder from the ADHD Information's family of web sites.

ADDinSchool.com is one of our ADHD web sites. It has over 500 Classroom Interventions to help your ADHD Student succeed. It is time to check it out!

Anti-social behaviors are common with ADHD individuals. About 60% of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder kids are also oppositional or defiant. Some are even getting in trouble with the law.

Impulsive-Hyperactive ADHD kids are the most likely to get into trouble than are the Inattentive ADHD kids, as they tend to crave the stimulation of anti-social behaviors, and impulsively "act-out". Because they are impulsive, they don't plan their crimes well, and are usually easily caught.

Teens untreated for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - ADD ADHD - average two arrests by the age of 18. About 20% of teens untreated for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - ADD ADHD - will be arrested for a felony, versus only about 3% of teens without ADHD.

As many as 50% of all men in prisons have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and were untreated as children or teens for ADHD.

As many as 50% of all teenagers in juvenile facilities have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder but were untreated for ADHD.