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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Wheeler, Linda – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2010
This article seeks to evaluate and take further the discussion put forward by Visser and Jehan ("Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties" 14, no. 2: 127-40). It begins by focusing on the biomedical discourse, its dominance in the academic and professional literature and why the existence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Educational Environment, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Wheeler, Linda; Pumfrey, Peter; Wakefield, Peter – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2009
By focusing on the findings from one case study, this article demonstrates a replicable individualised approach to identifying variability of ADHD symptoms across contexts at given times in a main phase and follow-up phase (situational variability) and across both phases (temporal variability) in a primary school setting. Currently we have found…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Observation, Research Methodology, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Wheeler, Linda; Pumfrey, Peter; Wakefield, Peter; Quill, Wendy – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2008
As part of research undertaken by the first author, a survey of schools was carried out in one local education authority (LEA) in order to gather information about pupils diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). All mainstream and special schools and pupil referral units were approached and a response rate of 94% was…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Student Needs, Incidence, Hyperactivity