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Dear [member_name_first],
Warm November greetings! The month of November offers a number of great opportunities for commemoration, celebration, and education. For starters November is American Indian Heritage Month. The Smithsonian Education website offers American Indian Heritage Teaching Resources. For background reference read the presidential proclamation establishing November as National American Indian Heritage Month.
Veterans Day honors those who have served in the Armed Forces. Learn the history of Veterans Day by visiting the Department of Veterans Affairs website. Teachnology.com offers a selection of Veterans Day lessons plans. The U.S. Dept of Education also offers resources for teachers about Military Conflicts in U.S. History.
In the United States, November is of course synonymous with Thanksgiving! The Education World Archives have a variety of Thanksgiving Lesson Ideas. More Thanksgiving Resources for the classroom are also available at A to Z Teacher Stuff. The History of Thanksgiving can be found on the History.com website and features videos, the history of the First Thanksgiving, and Mayflower Myths among a plentitude of additional historical resources.
ADHD/ADD in Girls
by David Rabiner, Ph.D.
 One of the important shortcomings of most of the search-based information on ADHD/ADD is that the vast majority of studies have been conducted solely on boys, or have included very few girls in the sample. As a result, the scientific literature on ADHD/ADD is almost exclusively based on male subjects.
Recently, a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health on a large group of girls both with and without ADHD/ADD was published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Biederman, J. et al., (1999). Clinical correlates of ADHD/ADD in females: Findings from a large group of girls ascertained from pediatric and psychiatric referral sources. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38, 966-975. In this study, the authors examined the clinical correlates of ADHD/ADD in girls so that similarities and differences with what has been found among boys with ADHD/ADD could be ascertained. This study represents the largest and most comprehensive study of girls with ADHD/ADD that has been published to date.
Participants in this study were girls between the ages of 6 and 18. There were 140 girls who had been diagnosed with ADHD/ADD based on structured psychiatric interviews conducted with the child's parent(s). In addition, 122 girls of similar ages and other backgrounds who did not have ADHD/ADD were included as comparison subjects. These two groups of girls were compared on a wide variety of characteristics so that the researchers could learn about the problems associated with ADHD/ADD in females specifically.
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David Rabiner is a Senior Research Scientist at
Duke University.
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