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Patti's Comments:
Below are three important resources that will help ensure
the school professionals understand bipolar disorder, its
impact on the educational process and the important role an
administrator plays.
1) Bipolar
Disorder: Educational Implications for Secondary Students
(Student Services)
This is important because most administrators have never received
any training on the subject and it explains the important
role an administrators.
2) Bipolar
Spectrum Disorders: Early Onset (National Assn. of School
Psychologists)
A shorter version of an excellent article published in a book
by NASP.
3) New
Treatment Guidelines for Children with Bipolar Disorder
(NeuroPsychiatry Reviews)
This article is important because it lists the goals of treatment.
According to Kowatch, "Children with bipolar disorder
often demonstrate executive dysfunction, decreased impulse
control, organizational difficulties, decreased and fluctuating
cognitive ability, and decreased functional ability - all
of which serve to decrease his availability to the educational
process."
Early
Adolescence and the Middle School Years (excerpt from
Understanding the Mind of Your Bipolar Child)
Increasing adademic demands, cognitive problems, and hormonal
changes.
Why
Johnny and Jenny Can't Write: Disorders of Written Expression
and Children with Bipolar Disorder (The Bipolar Child)
In addition to a motor and sequencing difficulty, a child
with bipolar disorder may also have difficulties with the
mechanics of writing (periods, commas, and capitals may be
very late to arrive in any written product), working memory,
intention (let’s get it done), and sustained attention.
In a hypomanic state, the thoughts may race and ideas pour
out faster than the motor or organizational controls; conversely,
in a depressed phase, there may be a slow-down of thought
and a paucity of ideas.
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