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Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are often challenged by poor academic and work performance and troubled relationships with peers and adults. Disruptive behavior disorders, such as oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder, can lead to family conflict, social challenges, and difficulty with authority figures.
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Our therapists provide specific treatment recommendations. Our neuropsychology and learning specialists are available for consultation and testing, and to work with your child’s school. We also help you understand your child’s diagnosis and teach ways you can help your child.
The Child Study Center, part of Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone, provides the following specialized treatment programs.
Educators, clinicians, parents, and clinical researchers have become increasingly concerned with executive functioning in children and adolescents. Many have trouble putting together the actions needed to complete tasks, including those needed to manage school demands comfortably and successfully. Researchers at the Child Study Center have developed a unique organizational skills training program that improves the home and school lives of children with ADHD and related conditions. This program and other empirically supported methods are provided in a specialized organizational skills and executive function treatment service for kids, teens, and young adults. Treatment, emphasizing effective management of school and home demands, results in improved performance, productivity, and reduced stress.
Elementary School Students: Kids spend a big chunk of their weeks in school, getting ready for school, and managing homework. If they struggle with the practical executive functions needed for organization, time management, and planning, they are often tense, distressed and in conflict with their parents and teachers. Studies have found that many students in elementary school have difficulty keeping their school materials organized, managing their time, and handling both daily school assignments and larger projects. We’ve learned that these practical executive functioning problems often lead to poor academic productivity, low grades, child stress, and family conflict. Throughout over 15 years of empirical testing, we’ve developed our Organizational Skills Training program, which has led to significant improvements in children’s executive functioning skills, according to both teachers and parents. This program has also resulted in significant improvements in academic performance and reductions in family conflict, leaving children and families well equipped to handle both in-school demands and the demands of homework time. Recent studies through MRI testing have also shown significant brain activity changes after completing Organizational Skills Training. We currently offer sessions twice weekly through a variety of options:
Services are offered at our three offices, in Manhattan and New Jersey and on Long Island. Services can also be provided virtually in other areas. Please speak with our team to determine if virtual treatment is offered in your state.
Middle School, High School, and College Students: We offer treatment to support development of organizational skills to meet the increased academic demands of advancement through education. Service is offered in the following formats:
We are currently recruiting for our Organizational Skills group program. Group treatment allows individuals to learn and practice organizational strategies and techniques alongside peers who demonstrate similar executive functioning difficulties. Participants in our group will also be able to receive individualized support in practicing skills. If you are interested in our Organizational Skills group treatment, please contact us. Groups are being developed for middle and high school students first.
We are also able to provide professional development trainings or workshops to schools that may benefit from implementation of Organizational Skills Training in their educational settings. Through initial training presentations and ongoing partnerships or consultation with schools, we help schools create and deliver an Organizational Skills program for their student body. These consultations are based on further research studies that show a small-group version of Organizational Skills Training delivered by school personnel is highly effective in putting kids on a path to success.
For more information about Organizational Skills Training and the executive functioning treatment team, please contact us at CSC.OrganizedKids@NYULangone.org or at 646-754-5139.
Parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) improves the parent–child relationship by increasing positive feelings between parents and children, improving child behavior, and coaching parents to use consistent, predictable, and effective parenting strategies. This form of therapy is designed to help change problematic and disruptive behaviors in children ages 2 to 7.
Parents of children with less-pronounced behavioral issues may benefit from briefer, targeted parenting consultations, available individually or in parenting groups. Older children or teens and their parents often benefit from family sessions where rules, responsibilities, privileges, and consequences are established collaboratively.
We work with schools to develop behavioral management programs for student populations to improve teacher–student interactions. We train teachers, aides, and paraprofessionals in effective behavior management tools and techniques.
For individual students, we collaborate with educational teams to obtain appropriate accommodations for the children we service, including Individualized Education Programs and 504 Plans for children with different abilities.
To make an appointment, please schedule an intake screening call.