https://fidgettofocus.com/blog Outwit Your Boredom: Sensory Strategies for Living with ADD Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:24:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Registration is now open for the 2010 Virtual ADHD Conference: http://bit.ly/9a1BE3. Conferences have always been a lot of fun for me and Dr. Rtoz, but not everyone can travel across the country to attend a physical conference. Travel and lodging can prove to be very expensive, as can the time away ... https://fidgettofocus.com/blog/2010/2010-virtual-adhd-conference/ This was a talk I recently gave at the California Association of Marriage, Family Therapists in Santa Barbara.  Check out the powerpoint link at the end of the description. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults is often a hidden and overlooked disorder even among the most skilled clinicians. While professionals ... https://fidgettofocus.com/blog/2010/adhd-in-adults-the-hidden-disorder/ Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults is often a hidden and overlooked disorder even among the most skilled clinicians. While professionals believed that children and adolescents would outgrow their symptoms of ADHD by puberty, recent research has shown that as many as 67% of children with ADHD continue to ... https://fidgettofocus.com/blog/2010/adhd-in-adults-the-hidden-disorder-dr-roland-rotz-to-speak-at-santa-barbara-chapter-of-camft/ The powerpoint presentation Dr. Rotz used at the Education Minnesota Teachers Conference, explaining how activity in our sensory system impacts ADHD and executive functions, is available in the previous post.  The presentation blended with the unveiling of the AlphaBetter Desk or "stand up desk" with the swinging footrest.  The desk, which ... https://fidgettofocus.com/blog/2009/impact-of-movement-on-learning-featuring-the-stand-up-desk/ One thing Dr. Rotz and I dream of is that Fidget to Focus one day will be required reading for every elementary and high school teacher. Imagine how the school experience would change for all children if teachers understood the neuro-biological reason for fidgeting and and used fidgeting to enhance ... https://fidgettofocus.com/blog/2009/fidget-to-focus-in-the-classroom/ I used to love getting catalogs from  The J. Peterman Company. They sold these funky clothes and accessories invoking adventure, mystery, and "long ago" and "far away". The products were shown as sketches. The descriptions were artfully created first-person "accounts" of who had been seen wearing this garment, how wonderful ... https://fidgettofocus.com/blog/2009/remember-the-j-peterman-catalog/ We were pleased to find out about this article by Linda Shrieves, staff writer for the Orlando Sentinel. She is also reporting on the new research out of the University of Central Florida that documents what so many of us have known for so long: fidgeting helps you stay focused ... https://fidgettofocus.com/blog/2009/well-stop-it/ I finally gave into social pressure and have started hanging out in twitterland (you can follow me at twitter.com/SarahDWright). After feeling overwhelmed for a while, I am beginning to like it--partly because it's a treasure hunt and I'm finding some great stuff. Like this online virtual "cone of silence" or, ... https://fidgettofocus.com/blog/2009/white-noise-for-focus-and-serenity/ A new article in this week's Time Magazine should have cited Fidget to Focus, but didn't. Check out the new research on the effectiveness of Fidget to Focus! http://tinyurl.com/d5b8e3 https://fidgettofocus.com/blog/2009/fidget-to-focus-in-time-magazine/ Check out this video from ABC news about how schools from 18 states are beginning to use stand up desks. While they comment on the benefit to children in general for managing weight they also notice how it also helps restless children. Most important is to see how ... https://fidgettofocus.com/blog/2009/stand-up-desks-have-come-to-the-classroom/