Hello Paeds-and-Feed blog followers! It has been a really loooong time between articles hasn’t it? Well I am back, albeit for as many articles as I can write in 2 days, because I have a bit of leave to work on material before it’s back to the grindstone! Let’s talk...
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“Sensory processing disorder” and “central auditory processing disorder”
As always, it’s been a busy last couple of months on the work front for me. Biggest news is that I have submitted what I hope to be my last ever assignments, and my lecturer has just emailed me to let me know that I passed both! WOOT! WOOT! Crack...
Practical ways to help high-functioning young people with ADHD
Time management and abilities in organisation and planning are often skills that are lacking in young people with ADHD… in this blog, Dr Megs talks about practical ways we can help kids with improving these skills in day-to-day life.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Good evening everyone!! It is yet again late Monday night and I have not written a medical blog post for the week (*face palm*). Sorry! In my defence, I’ve had a bit of a rough old week, with many sad anniversaries (5 in total) for me in the last 7-8 days. It was...
Strategies to help attention and concentration in kids (non-drug methods)
Non-medication based strategies to help school kids with attention and concentration As I have probably alluded to in previous blog posts, one of the most common presentations to my general paediatric practice are children who have a “short attention span, poor...
How stimulant medications for ADHD work
Gosh guys, I have to apologise. I have been struggling with my (over) commitments over the last few weeks and after 3 weekends away from home (and my family) for various reasons, I have fallen behind with my blogging! Working on some projects that I really hope will...
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
I see a lot of children through my clinical work who have troubles with attention and concentration, and this may manifest as a variety of different presentations, for example: learning problems behaviour problems: like emotional dysregulation, oppositional or defiant...