SPM and SPM-2 Quick Tips Case Study: What’s Behind Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom?

Understanding how executive dysfunction affects students with dyslexia can help you target instruction and interventions that will prove the most effective.  

For the first time, recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show autism in girls at a prevalence rate higher than 1%. While the CDC says autism is around 4 times as common in boys as in girls, many researchers think the diagnostic gap between the sexes is wider than it should be. The gap suggests that many girls and women don’t get the support they need to navigate the world. 

For the first time, recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show autism in girls at a prevalence rate higher than 1%. While the CDC says autism is around 4 times as common in boys as in girls, many researchers think the diagnostic gap between the sexes is wider than it should be. The gap suggests that many girls and women don’t get the support they need to navigate the world. 

Despite the clarity of diagnostic criteria, identifying depression in teens isn’t always straightforward. At every age, depression can look different from person to person, with some people experiencing emotional symptoms and others having more physical ones.  

An experienced LCSW shares some common—and some surprising—signs of depression in young people.

Autism characteristics and behaviors can change as people mature. While some or all core features of autism may remain present from early childhood onward, the degree of impairment or the outward appearance of some traits and behaviors may change. Understanding how and when these changes may occur can be helpful to those who support autistic individuals.

Board-certified child psychiatrist Loucresie Rupert, MD, offers practical advice for recognizing ADHD symptoms in girls and women.

Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). Risky sexual behavior, substance use, and bullying decrease, but more students experience mental health problems, violence, and suicidal thoughts, according to CDC's Data Summary & Trends Report for its 2011–2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

To diagnose developmental language disorder accurately in girls, researchers say clinicians should work across disciplines to erase gendered language stereotypes. 

Let’s cut to the chase: Executive dysfunction looks a lot like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Distractibility. Organizational challenges. Trouble managing big emotions. And academic ups and downs. Assessing executive function can give you a window into how a child functions every day and which skills to prioritize in an intervention plan.

Across the country, thousands of students are carrying something heavier than the books in their backpacks. Study after study has confirmed what school psychologists, teachers, and caregivers see firsthand: A growing number of young people have depression that began or worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As we enter another winter with health experts predicting a “triple-demic” of flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), researchers are learning more about how the pandemic has affected students around the world. Here’s an overview of the changes many students are experiencing post-pandemic, and how they could still be affecting assessments and evaluations. 

As we enter another winter with health experts predicting a “triple-demic” of flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), researchers are learning more about how the pandemic has affected students around the world. Here’s an overview of the changes many students are experiencing post-pandemic, and how they could still be affecting assessments and evaluations.