Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) among children and youth aged 1 to 17 years, is about 2% (1 in 50) and is equivalent to about 150,000 cases in Canada in 2025 [1, 2]. Smith-Magenis ...

Research on neuroinflammatory processes has revolutionized our understanding of the pathophysiology underlying a range of neuropsychiatric and neurological ...

Unfortunately for many adults, when we hear people talking about ADHD, we think of a little kid at school who can’t sit still and is bouncing around in his seat. But, that’s not really what ADHD is ...

Patients with Bipolar Disorder (BD) usually display cognitive deficits with aging. However, the correlation between BD and dementia syndromes is inconclusive, despite the similarity with behavioral ...

Emily Kapaun has joined Onword Therapy as a licensed speech-language pathologist. Emily specializes in the assessment and treatment of speech, language, cognition, and executive functioning disorders, ...

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive function abilities, challenging the accuracy ...

Abigail College has joined Onword Therapy as a licensed speech-language pathologist. Abby specializes in the assessment and treatment of speech, language, cognition, and executive functioning ...

When it comes to understanding the learning and behavior needs of autistic students, executive function (EF) skills are often overlooked but they can significantly impact a child’s success at school ...

Executive functions develop throughout childhood and adolescence and are crucial to the success of elite athletes. While open-skill sports are thought to foster superior executive functioning due to ...

Executive dysfunction can occur with ADHD. Some ways you can manage it include keeping tasks visible, breaking up tasks, and setting alarms for time-based events. Executive dysfunction is a group of ...