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Baxter turns down his buzz : a story for little kids about ADHD
\"A high-energy rabbit that must learn to control his activity level and impulsiveness. Baxter's uncle Barnaby guides Baxter through the steps necessary to 'turn down his buzz.' Techniques such as mindfulness, progressive relaxation, and visualization are employed\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A daily diary study on maladaptive daydreaming, mind wandering, and sleep disturbances: Examining within-person and between-persons relations
Cross-sectional and experimental research have shown that task-unrelated thoughts (i.e., mind wandering) relate to sleep disturbances, but there is little research on whether this association generalizes to the day-level and other kinds of task-unrelated mentation. We employed a longitudinal daily diary design to examine the within-person and between-person associations between three self-report instruments measuring mind wandering, maladaptive daydreaming (a condition characterized by having elaborate fantasy daydreams so insistent that they interfere with daily functioning) and sleep disturbances. A final sample of 126 participants self-identified as experiencing maladaptive daydreaming completed up to 8 consecutive daily reports (in total 869 daily observations). The scales showed acceptable-to-excellent within-person reliability (i.e., systematic day-to-day change) and excellent between-person reliability. The proportion of between-person variance was 36% for sleep disturbances, 57% for mind wandering, and 75% for maladaptive daydreaming, respectively (the remaining being stochastic and systematic within-person variance). Contrary to our pre-registered hypothesis, maladaptive daydreaming did not significantly predict sleep disturbances the following night, B = -0.00 (SE = 0.04), p = .956. Exploratory analyses indicated that while nightly sleep disturbances predicted mind wandering the following day, B = 0.20 (SE = 0.04), p < .001, it did not significantly predict maladaptive daydreaming the following day, B = -0.04 (SE = 0.05), p = .452. Moreover, daily mind wandering did not significantly predict sleep disturbances the following night, B = 0.02 (SE = 0.05), p = .731. All variables correlated at the between-person level. We discuss the implications concerning the differences between maladaptive daydreaming and mind wandering and the possibility of targeting sleep for mind wandering interventions.
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I am not Joey Pigza
Irrepressible Joey must draw upon all of his emotional reserves to face his latest challenge. His good-for-nothing dad shows up, having won the lottery and acquired a new identity. Carter Pigza is now Charles Heinz; he's won back Joey's mother, Fran (renamed Maria); and Joey is expected to forgive him his past sins and reinvent himself as Freddy Heinz. Dad has big plans for the family. He's bought a run-down diner and will use his son to drum up business by standing by the roadside in a bee costume. Mom is on a spending spree and pressures Joey to forgive his father and do as he says. But Joey senses how wrong this is, and his struggle is palpable. By the time he concedes, his father has given up on the diner idea and has spent all of his money on losing lottery tickets. As usual, when the chips are down, Carter takes off, just as Fran is about to have a baby. Gantos tells the tale with unfailing humor, delicious wordplay, and many hilarious scenes, but this is the darkest Joey book to date. Carter's unreliability is a given, but Fran Pigza's willingness to buy into the surreal scene is unsettling and underscores the fact that Joey is really on his own. Nevertheless, readers will cheer as his indomitable spirit prevails; he neither rescinds nor regrets his forgiveness, and he is thrilled to have a baby brother. The appearance of Junior Pigza promises a new purpose in Joey's life, the possibility of a future ally in his crazy world, and, perhaps, adventures to come.
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Experiences of a Dyslexic Librarian
Locke reflects on his personal and professional journey as a dyslexic librarian and how it shapes his inclusive practice. He describes struggling to read as a child, facing stigma and low expectations despite strong ability, and later receiving a diagnosis of dyslexia and ADHD. These experiences inform his belief that students should never be told they can't read certain books and that motivation and interests matter as much as reading levels. As a school library manager, he has redesigned the library's physical and digital spaces to improve access for diverse learning styles through clear layout, signage, cataloguing and inclusive collections. He promotes tools like audiobooks, eBooks, colored overlays and non-judgmental support. By expanding non-fiction, Manga, and role-playing game clubs, he has boosted engagement, confidence and borrowing. He argues that empathetic, flexible library practice helps neurodivergent students thrive as readers and learners.
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The middle of somewhere
Twelve-year-old Ronnie loves organization, especially because her brother has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, but traveling with their grandfather who is investigating wind power in Kansas brings some pleasant, if chaotic, surprises.
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Shaming, blaming, and reframing disability: depictions of Tourette syndrome and family dynamics within youth literature
Purpose This study aims to present a complex analysis of the ways family dynamics are represented in six books for youth that depict characters with Tourette Syndrome (TS). In particular, this study highlights how characters with TS navigate layers of shame for being misunderstood in school and society, and how family dynamics either reinforce or support characters from internalizing ableism and the attendant pain and shame associated with being perceived as “abnormal.” Design/methodology/approach The process for selecting YA books began with a wide search of recommended book lists available online and curated by the disability community, such as disabilityinkidlit.org and the Tourette Association of America. The authors sought books with at least one main or secondary character with TS. Using questions informed by critical content analysis (Short, 2016), the authors reads each book and generated notes and data charts on themes and patterns, which included how interactions between characters with TS and their parents and siblings were depicted. After the authors read each book, they met for 90 min to discuss their notes, expanded their data charts and generated themes to address their research question: How do characters with TS navigate pain within family dynamics? Findings Findings support that all six books reveal progressive and problematic portrayals and messages about disability and human differences. Characters with TS in the books the authors studied experience family dynamics that are fraught with pain. Findings also demonstrate that characters with TS act with agency and resilience to resist shame within family dynamics, educating their parents and/or siblings in ways that are healing and restorative within the family dynamic. Originality/value The analysis of the six books provides support for educators to build knowledge about how disability is constructed within children’s and youth literature to pose critical questions about problematic portrayals and to build a future for families that is inclusive of disability and values progressive notions about human differences.
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Stuck in the middle (of middle school) : a novel in doodles
Moving to another school, Doreen hopes she can do better despite dealing with her ADHD, her younger sister's popularity, and mounting stress at home, and turns to her doodle journal to cope.
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Applying a Critical Disability Studies Lens to Young Adult Literature: Disrupting Ableism in Depictions of Tourette Syndrome
This project is an interdisciplinary endeavor to connect research in the teaching of English with Critical Disability Studies, an intersection that is crucial to disrupting ableism and creating more liberatory schooling and societal contexts that embrace broader notions of human differences. Invoking critical content analysis of five young adult novels that depict characters with Tourette syndrome (TS), we asked, how are various models for understanding “disability” invoked in YA fiction that depicts Tourette syndrome? How do these various models function to reinforce, complicate, or reconstruct in a more progressive way notions about human difference in YA fiction that depicts Tourette syndrome? We focused on one of the many pervasive tropes found within all five novels using the psychodynamic construct of splitting. In particular, we call attention to depictions of TS as embodying an animal—most often a dog—that splits off into the bad/dangerous side, usually subsumed within a character’s “normal self.” This trope can be seen as part of broader, historical discourses that have dehumanized disabled people, constructing them as “other” and subsequently rationalizing exclusionary practices. We advocate for and discuss ways for scholars and educators to continue integrating disability from the margins to the center in literacy research.
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Sidetracked
\"Seventh-grader Joseph Friedman is friendless and puny, with ADD to boot. He spends most of his time avoiding the class bully and hiding out in the Resource Room. But the Resource Room teacher encourages (i.e., practically forces) him to join the school cross country team, and he meets Heather, a new student who's tough and athletic and refuses to be pushed around by anybody\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Flash
Minis, which I define here as single-page stories no matter their word count, make it even simpler still, requiring no disturbance to a reader's visual field at all, only an instant impression of a self-contained tale—a story in a box.1 There are perhaps better ways than word counts or page restrictions to distinguish flash from its elfin offspring, the mini. In the final three seconds, he saw himself blue, then pink at his mommy's breast; crawling in diapers, hugging his sister, playing, laughing, throwing a tantrum, going to school, fighting, swearing at mother, crying at father's funeral, graduating, working, marrying, stealing, being fired, divorced, drinking too much, driving too fast, slamming into the oncoming truck.10 Doug Long's \"Fast Forward\" takes a cliché, the belief that at the moment of death our life flashes before our eyes, and literalizes it. Much can be said, no doubt, for reading very short stories as a symptom of our culture's attention deficit disorder. Both authors assume the guise of a recipe to describe their writing process, at once satirizing the formulaic nature of minis while simultaneously offering useful tips on how to write them. 5.
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