Category: For Teacher & Educators
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Is EPIC suitable for children with DCD/Dyspraxia?
This blog post was written by Sinead Rhodes, Claire Tai, Peter Wu and Penny Shutt We have been busy working on a pilot study to see if EPIC activities would be suitable for children with Dyspraxia/Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD). A pilot study is a small-scale study with a small number of children taking part –…
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Thinking skills and learning maths in children with ADHD
Successful maths learning is linked to a range of skills involving processing of numbers. When a child finds learning maths tricky these number skills are often focused on as the source of the difficulty. Learning maths also relies on having good thinking skills such as efficient memory. Much less focus though has been given to…
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How does stimulant medication actually work on thinking skills?
We have previously posted about ‘myths around ADHD’ covering issues such as the lifespan nature of ADHD symptoms, common beliefs that ADHD is seen typically on its own and that those with ADHD are similar to each other. Another myth is that ADHD mainly affects behaviour. Our research, however, and that of many other groups…
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Update on EPIC activities
We have been a bit quiet on the EPIC blog of late as we have been very busy with a number of activities! We are working hard on developing new booklets! These will be added to the collection of understanding ADHD and DCD and strategy booklets we have already posted on our website. Our new…
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Myths around ADHD
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is often misunderstood. The myths that surround ADHD never seem to go away despite a huge amount of research into the causes, characteristics and treatments for ADHD. Most psychological disorders do have myths around them though – such as the image of all autistic children having amazing memories like the…
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Thinking skills and literacy in children with ADHD
We have recently published systematic reviews about thinking skills and their relationship to difficulties in maths and literacy in children with ADHD. Today we will summarise the findings of the review that focused on literacy. So first of all, what is a ‘systematic review’? A systematic review is a summary of all of the literature…
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Helping children with their thinking skills across settings
We have been blogging about EPIC over the last few weeks introducing the ideas behind our approach. Last time we blogged about two of the central foundations of EPIC –our approach being individualised and taking what is called a ‘transdiagnostic’ apporach. Today we are going to discuss the importance of embedding change across contexts.…
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Taking an individualised approach when helping a child with developmental difficulties
The EPIC intervention and use of associated materials aims to facilitate optimal thinking, learning, and wellbeing in children and young people. Today we are going to cover a further aspect of EPIC: taking what is called an ‘individualised transdiagnostic’ approach. The EPIC approach is individualised. It is important that psychoeducation and strategies are based on…
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Personalisation
We have published free downloadable materials for parents and teachers to help with thinking and learning in children and young people especially for children with developmental difficulties. Yesterday we blogged about a key feature of EPIC – multiple areas of difficulty and we wrote about our play, game and activity based focus. Today we are…
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Multiple areas of difficulty and neurodevelopmental conditions
The EPIC intervention and use of associated materials aims to facilitate optimal learning, behaviour, wellbeing and mental health in children and young people. We recently blogged about strategies paired to areas of difficulty. Today we are going to cover a further key aspect of our approach: targeting multiple areas of difficulty. Children with neurodevelopmental difficulties…
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