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Teens with ADHD: More ZZZ’s, more A’s? For teens with ADHD quality sleep may be tougher to come by, research says Published:  Tags:  CINCINNATI, OHIO (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- Parents of teens know first-hand they don’t always have the best sleep habits, making some mornings a nightmare. Sleep deprivation may also have an additional impact on kids with ADHD. Teens have notoriously erratic sleep behaviors. They’re awake late at night and then it’s tough to rouse them when the alarm goes off the next morning. And for teens with ADHD, research suggests quality sleep may also be tougher...

Janice Chang for STAT For Abby Williard, school always felt like a slog. Growing up in a small town in central Pennsylvania, Williard couldn’t seem to complete her schoolwork or stop daydreaming in class. Although she has anxiety and depression, she felt like something else was at play. “I would cry in class because I just couldn’t handle it, I couldn’t take it,” she said.  At points, Williard gave up on trying to succeed in school: She nearly failed several classes and was so quiet that teachers would sometimes mark her absent. But one day when she was 16, years of confusion gave ...

Reply Jan. 24, 2021 The Harc family mourns the passing on January 14 of Margaret Tedone, our beloved founder and leader. In 1951, Tedone and a group of friends founded The Hartford Association for Retarded Children, later renamed Harc, Inc. It was a time when children with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) were routinely 'put away' and warehoused in large state institutions. Bearing a child with an intellectual disability was often fraught with shame. Countless people were unaware of siblings living at Mansfield or Southbury State Training Schools. Tedone and her fellow parents...