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Childcare iPad apps for Sign In/Out, Attendance, Text Alerts and Child Portfolios - 0 views

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shared by David McGavock on 04 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • David McGavock on 04 Jan 13
     
    "We are an exciting startup in the San Francisco Bay area (Santa Clara, CA) providing iPhone apps and web admin tools to Child care centers and preschools. Our apps enable smooth communication between preschools and parents through exchange of photos, email and notifications. Our single touch signin/sigout app allows parents to signin and signout their children from the daycare. We are currently in private beta. Kinderlime improves a preschool operators bottomline by getting the word of mouth through your exisiting families and real time ratio tracking. "
David McGavock

Is working memory training the priority for ADHD patients? | SharpBrains - 0 views

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ADHD working memory training

shared by David McGavock on 28 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Not all chil­dren ben­e­fit from med­ica­tion, some expe­ri­ence intol­er­a­ble side effects, and many con­tinue to strug­gle despite the ben­e­fits pro­vided by medication.
  • Behav­ior ther­apy can be dif­fi­cult for par­ents to con­sis­tently imple­ment, and does not gen­er­ally reduce behav­ior dif­fi­cul­ties to nor­ma­tive levels.
  • researchers have shown grow­ing inter­est in whether cog­ni­tive train­ing — gen­er­ally done via com­puter — can induce more last­ing changes in children’s abil­ity to focus and attend. One approach that has shown promise in help­ing youth with ADHD, and which is now widely avail­able, is Work­ing Mem­ory Training.
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  • In one, chil­dren with ADHD were ran­domly assigned to high inten­sity (HI) or low inten­sity (LI) WM train­ing. The HI treat­ment involved per­form­ing com­put­er­ized WM tasks, e.g., remem­ber­ing the sequence in which lights appeared in dif­fer­ent por­tions of a grid, recall­ing a sequence of num­bers in reverse order, where the dif­fi­culty level was reg­u­larly adjusted to match the child’s per­for­mance by increas­ing or decreas­ing the items to be recalled.
  • Each group trained 30–40 min­utes per day, 5 days per week, for 5 weeks with train­ing super­vised by par­ents
  • A sub­se­quent study also used ran­dom assign­ment to HI vs. LI train­ing, and observed the impact on children’s behav­ior in a con­trolled class­room set­ting.
  • The authors con­clude that their find­ings cast “…doubt on the claims that CWMT is an effec­tive treat­ment in young chil­dren with ADHD.”
  • Results indi­cated sig­nif­i­cant reduc­tions in off-task class­room behav­ior among chil­dren with ADHD who received HI train­ing. This par­tially addresses con­cerns about fail­ure to find teacher reported ben­e­fits in other stud­ies.
  • A sig­nif­i­cant lim­i­ta­tion in the evidence-based for using CWMT to treat youth with ADHD is the absence of teacher reported ben­e­fits.
  • some have sug­gested that CWMT should be regarded as no more than a ‘pos­si­bly effi­ca­cious’ treat­ment for ADHD and not con­sid­ered a ‘first-line’ treat­ment like med­ica­tion and behav­ior therapy.
  • Two recently pub­lished stud­ies
  • par­ent reports indi­cated sig­nif­i­cant reduc­tions in ADHD symp­toms, par­tic­u­larly inat­ten­tive symp­toms; these reduc­tions remained evi­dent at 3 months. How­ever, no ben­e­fits in ADHD symp­toms were evi­dent in reports pro­vided by children’s teach­ers.
  • Results from these 2 randomized-controlled tri­als do not sup­port CWMT as a first-line treat­ment for ADHD.
  • What can we con­clude from this work? Despite promis­ing ini­tial reports sug­gest­ing that CWMT is a poten­tially effec­tive treat­ment for ADHD, these stud­ies sig­nif­i­cantly under­cut this con­clu­sion. This does not mean that there is no util­ity to CWMT, how­ever, par­tic­u­larly for indi­vid­u­als with demon­strated work­ing mem­ory deficits. If one’s treat­ment goal is to enhance work­ing mem­ory, CWMT may have real value. If the goal is to bring ADHD symp­toms under con­trol, how­ever, these find­ings indi­cate that for most chil­dren with ADHD, CWMT would not cur­rently be con­sid­ered a rea­son­able sub­sti­tute for med­ica­tion and/or behav­ior therapy.
  • David McGavock on 28 Mar 14
     
    What can we con­clude from this work? Despite promis­ing ini­tial reports sug­gest­ing that CWMT is a poten­tially effec­tive treat­ment for ADHD, these stud­ies sig­nif­i­cantly under­cut this con­clu­sion. This does not mean that there is no util­ity to CWMT, how­ever, par­tic­u­larly for indi­vid­u­als with demon­strated work­ing mem­ory deficits. If one's treat­ment goal is to enhance work­ing mem­ory, CWMT may have real value. If the goal is to bring ADHD symp­toms under con­trol, how­ever, these find­ings indi­cate that for most chil­dren with ADHD, CWMT would not cur­rently be con­sid­ered a rea­son­able sub­sti­tute for med­ica­tion and/or behav­ior therapy.
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