SAND
Science of ADHD & Neurodevelopment
SAND
Science of ADHD & Neurodevelopment
In this video Dr Abby Russell, one of our three initiative leads and a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter introduces SAND.
We have more videos below and on our YouTube channel.
Development and early testing of a school-based toolkit for children with traits of ADHD.
Studying trends in children and young people’s mental health and population need for services and support.
Studying children and adolescents with ADHD in transition between children’s and adult services.
View video interviews from our collaborators.
Research Advisory Group Lead
Anita Salimi
Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCo)
Ali Hirst
General Practitioner & ICB Member
Dr Irina Brook
Research Advisor
Tash Ruzive
Mapping ADHD services in primary care and co-producing guidance to improve healthcare.
Our co-production work has helped us create a resource out of MAP findings which you may find beneficial if you are trying to access healthcare for ADHD. In the guide below, you will find:
Development and early testing of a school-based toolkit for children with traits of ADHD.
Use the buttons below to watch videos from the Tools for Schools Flex toolkit on a variety of ADHD topics as well as interviews with children with ADHD and their guardians.
Studying children and adolescents with ADHD in transition between children’s and adult services.
On this page there are several videos and some advice on transitioning between ADHD services.
In the videos, Dr Anna Price explains the research and findings from the CATCh-uS study and Mike Price shares his experience living with ADHD.
In this webinar, Professor Tamsin Ford, Dr Astrid Janssens and Dr Tamsin Newlove-Delgado will describe the findings from this NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) funded, interactive mixed method study and place them in the wider context of service organisations for transition and for neurodevelopmental disorders.
The CATCh-uS Pupil Behaviour Questionnaire (PBQ) is a resource for measuring low level disruption in the classroom for primary school pupils.
The CATCh-uS mapping study was a national survey with more than 2,500 responses. Three different groups of people were asked about service provision in their area:
The information gathered from the survey was used to create a map of existing services.
Dr Abby Russell joins the Research Zone Podcast to talk about ADHD in schools and devising a toolkit for teachers.
Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, Adjusting to Change is an ACAMH Podcast focused on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families.
On episode two of the podcast Blandine is joined by Dr Anna Price and Anita Salimi to talk about the CATCh-uS study, difficulties that ADHD presents for young people, and strategies to help manage them.
British Journal of General Practice Interviews is a podcast series with the latest updates in primary care and general practice research.
In this episode, Becky Coniam-Gudka and Dr Anna Price talk about their qualitative study about the experiences of accessing and delivering primary care for young people with ADHD from the perspective of young people, their supporters and healthcare professionals.
The I Have ADHD Podcast is a podcast aimed at adults with ADHD. Host Kristen Carder is a mindset coach for ADHD adults and covers a large range of topics on the podcast.
ADHD and Me is an episode of The Documentary Podcast hosted by Saeedeh Hashemi on BBC Sounds. Saeedeh talks about her own diagnosis of ADHD and the benefits of neurodiversity in the modern working environment, as well as discussing the potential renaming of ADHD.
Josh Cook has supported children with special educational needs and disabilities in both primary and secondary environments. After witnessing first-hand the challenges that many children with ADHD face in education, he felt that we could do more to help.
In this TEDx talk he explores the development of new methods to support students with ADHD as they move through the education system.
At 32, Jessica McCabe’s ADHD brought her to the darkest point of her life thus far. At 34, she was thriving both personally and professionally, producing a successful YouTube channel about living with ADHD.
In this deeply personal talk, Jessica describes how she turned things around through community and education.
In her TEDx talk, Jessica McCabe’s talks about starting her YouTube channel ‘How to ADHD’. She describes her channel as her ADHD toolbox, a place to keep all the strategies she’s learned about from living with ADHD.
Jessica’s channel is an excellent resource if you are looking to understand or manage ADHD better, with videos on a wide range of topics.
Stephen Tonti is a writer, director, and ADHD advocate. In this TEDx talk he speaks about how he believes ADHD is not a disorder. Stephen shares how his ADHD affects him both positively as well as negatively.
The free online book ‘Stories That Never Stand Still’ is a short read, It includes comics and poems written by other people with ADHD!
