ADHD Weekly -- Early ADHD Treatment Prevents Serious Complications

[KarenADHDWeekly]

When to start treatment for ADHD is a questions parents need to consider when their child is first diagnosed. Research is showing that the earlier treatment begins, the better a child does and the less likely he is to experience a co-occurring condition.

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What has been your families experience with medication management for ADHD?

[baba8]

So our 10 year old just started with Adderral as his fourth grade teachers thought he lacked focus. He has been on focalin for the last two years. I must say it has helped him a lot with impulse control. The focalin dosage was reduced toward the end of last year as he was loosing so much weight. We are back to the starting point but I think schools don’t have a transitional process where one teacher hands over a student’s file to another. I hope to bring that up in our next meeting

[RichSeitzOceanNJ]

Please research and include information on the Pax Good Behavior Game for early intervention and reducing ADHD problems. An ongoing clinical study started by Johns Hopkins in 1985-86 using GBG in first grade in Baltimore schools showed amazing reductions in negative behaviors across the board, including ADHD and other classifications, not just in elementary school but in lifetimes. Results were published in 1999 after Columbine showing drastic reductions in negative behaviors at age 19 and corresponding increases in positive outcomes such as grades, graduation rates, attendance, and even college admits. Since then GBG has been refined and tested in numerous studies. The PAX Good Behavior Game is based on multiple “gold standard” studies of classrooms and teachers in the US, Canada, and Europe. PAX GBG may be the most effective strategy a teacher can currently use in his or her classroom to protect children from lifetime mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders while also increasing lifetime academic success.

Everything in PAX was invented by teachers at one time or another, and then tested by fire by some of the world’s best prevention or behavioral scientists. You will find references for replicated scientific studies—most of which can be found at pubmed.gov (the National Library of Medicine). Only one of the hundreds of studies related to the tools in PAX GBG is by the developers of PAX GBG. The science is truly worldwide, spanning the United States, Canada, several European Countries, Africa, and findings from First Nations or Tribes. There are more scientific studies about the components of PAX GBG than virtually any other universal prevention strategy for classrooms.

And states can access Federal drg preventon grants too.