What really got me upset is that the woman has to do the study by herself.
Why don't Bernard Lord announce that the drugging and the killing of our children will come to a stop in this Province and do a study.
Bernard Richard told the Premier that 48,000 kids are force on these drugs every day.
I hear it on the street every day! We need a Premier who cares about family Values! Here's the story!!!!
Daily Gleaner | Provincial News
As published on page A4 on November 23, 2005
UNB PhD student to put ADHD theory to the test
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Cheryl Techentin poses with two of her children, Tynan, 11, and Kylie, 14. Techentin will be doing research into attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder next year.
By JOEL O'KANE
jokane@dailygleaner.com
Cheryl Techentin has two children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) but didn't know she had it as well until five years ago.
She'd always suspected it but never confirmed her suspicions until 2000, the same year she started her undergraduate studies at the University of New Brunswick.
"When I was a child, all my report cards said I was a daydreamer," she said. "You didn't have a diagnosis then."
The same thing still happens to two of her three kids with ADHD but the UNB PhD candidate in experimental psychology hopes her research could help find new ways to teach these children and help them adapt to the disorder.
Children with ADHD tend to be intelligent and creative but unable to focus on simple tasks or grasp the nuances of social interaction, she said.
"They seldom walk from point A to point B in school when they walk down the classroom aisle," Techentin said. "They might hit someone on the head or pick up someone else's pencil. If we're walking down the aisle, we might think it's a really cool pencil but not give in to that impulse."
In the classroom, they have trouble following instructions, leading to the daydreaming or underachiever labels, she said.
The reason, Techentin hopes to show in her research, is because the right hemisphere of the brain is dominant in children with ADHD. That's the side responsible for emotional and abstract thought. Reading words and following instructions comes from the left side of the brain.
Ever received an e-mail where you're asked to say what colour a word is, such as 'red', but it's printed in green letters? That's called a Stroop Test, and Techentin said most people will answer red because the left side of the brain wants to read the word before the right side can say the colour.
But when she starts her experiment early next year, she's expecting to find the opposite result in children with ADHD.
In her test, Techentin will say a word like mad in a happy tone and see how the children interpret it. If they say happy, she said, that means their using the right hemisphere of the brain more, which processes emotion.
She'll also take a group to Halifax's IWK Hospital to have them conduct the test while a functional magnetic resonance imaging system monitors which side of their brains are more active.
If she finds children with ADHD use the right side of the brain more, Techentin said, the knowledge could enhance teaching strategies.
"Now that we know this, what can we do to teach this child to read?" she said. "If the left hemisphere is processing language, maybe we need to give them headphones that only play in the left ear ... The more we know, the more we can work toward helping children develop strategies to overcome it."
She's conducting the research with UNB psychology professor Daniel Voyer and Dalhousie University psychology professor Ray Klein. She's also received a $5,000 post-graduate scholarship supplement from the Canadian Language and Literacy Network.
Universite de Moncton psychology professor Pierre Cormier, chair of the scholarship selection committee, said Techentin received the money because she displayed inter-disciplinary research interests with the use of the imaging machine.
"These are important skills for the future and we like to encourage that with these scholarships," he said.
10 comments:
She should be given far more than $5000, in research terms that's nothing, it would barely cover the trip to Halifax.
Teachers are incapable of understanding this stuff, they were trained under 'old school' ways and there is barely enough money to even keep schools open.
Parents should home school if the opportunity presents itself.
Imagine!
A scrimpy $5000.00 for a study as complicated as this!
Charles is this the opprotunity you have been dreaming of?
Join forces with this dedicated lady, help her raise the funds to make this a viable study. Five grand will just not cut the cake for such complex research.
She will need a lot of support.
Here on your Blog, it may be the time to prove your intellectual worth instead of being considered just another political irritation.
You have an excellant article from the Gleaner to start with, now get out there and make the issue stand out.
Team up and prove the government wrong on this issue...be nice and keep smiling along the way.
This is a university research study, which means that funding HAS to come from accredited sources. She can't just go collecting money from anybody otherwise it is unlikely she will get published or taken seriously. It's unfair and stupid, but that's the way research works. We could find out if the people who funded her take donations, and could ask if donations could be used to pay for the trip to Halifax. Unfortunately, as here study would clearly indicate drugs are typically not necessary, it will be hard for her to get funding.
I do agree to get in touch with her and follow the issue. This COULD be HUGE for ADD children-and adults. Might I add that it simply comes down to common sense in many cases. I was told I was a 'dreamer' and 'under achiever' all through public school and could never handle repetitive tasks-just too short an attention span. Ironically, while I was failing 'bookkeeping' (first year accounting) at university because of those horrid credit/debit transactions (which they no longer teach at university), I was tutoring people in third year accounting because it actually was INTERESTING.
The bottom line is this!!!! It didn't take long for Bernard Lord to do a study on pittbull! One child got killed in Saint John so he had to act. The issue of drugging our children is the same thing. These kids are forced on drugs and leter on in life they commit suicide or become the social outcast. A study would bring these issues on the table and this would be a huge step forward. After all? close to 48,000 kids on Ritalin in this Province and I might add that I believe this issue played a roll in the bi-election in Saint John Harbour because these poor families cannot afford the $1,400 it cost for a proper diagnosis of a child.
Charles you are a extremeist you hate the premier and that is final you will hate everybody unless they do what you want
Excellent Suggestion Anonymous : 5:48 AM
Charlie won't team up with this Lady, he's just rather as Anonymous States 11:52 AM
" Charles you are a extremeist you hate the premier and that is final you will hate everybody unless they do what you want "
Besides if Charles isn't the Star Player he can't handle it. I wish he'd move back down to Saint John and Leave Fredsville "
What is this anyway? Going against Charles day??? Now? Lets get one thing straight right now!!! I never wrote that I hated the Premier or even the Irvings! If you can locate this in any of the hundreds of blogs in here? I'll shut down this blog!!!! Maybe I wrote that I can't stand J.D. Irving but I never use the word -Hate!!!
I located the woman number in the phonebokk and left her a message. Lets see what she has to say about kids taking drugs?
Sure You did ??
yep...let a message but didn't receive an email yet....
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