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...worker or parent, there may be a new term to describe what ails you: Attention Deficit Trait (ADT). That?s Dr. Edward Hallowell?s term for the ailment brought about by excessive multitasking?and it?s a close cousin of Attention Deficit Disorder. Hallowell is a noted child and adult psychiatrist who has written about and studied ADD for more than a decade. In his upcoming book, Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About To Snap-Strategies For Coping In A World Gone ADD,? Hallowell describes ADT and what causes it. TIME?s Senior Correspondent Sonja Steptoe spoke with...
...life took a pious turn when he was 12 and saw Fiddler on the Roof. He began to study Judaism, taught himself Hebrew and walked to temple on Saturday. It was something his parents never fully understood; while they have stayed close and visited him often as an adult, a former associate of Abramoff's tells TIME, they have always stayed at a hotel during visits, rather than following the strictures of the Orthodox household that Abramoff, his wife Pam and their five children keep in Silver Spring...
...emotional connections with parents and caregivers by looking into their eyes. But there's a big cognitive leap between looking at someone's eyes and following that person's gaze to see what he or she is looking at. By tracking at what age babies learn to follow an adult's gaze, Meltzoff and Brooks have been able to establish an early indicator of language ability. It turns out that the earlier a baby follows the gaze of an adult (generally between 9 months and 11 months), the more advanced his or her language skills...
...learn sign language to be active participants in their babies' development. For the past 20 years, New York University developmental psychologist Catherine Tamis-LeMonda has been observing babies as they interact with parents in "naturalistic" environments?at home, running errands, going about their everyday lives?to see how adult involvement affects language acquisition. Through longitudinal studies, she's documented that the more parents respond to babies' cries, expressions and articulations, the earlier the children will talk and the more advanced their language skills will be at age 5. Parents who respond to babies' cues?reacting to grimaces and giggles, mimicking...
...French actor Gérard Depardieu says Mozart helped to cure his childhood stutter. Eliad, the painter, received her treatment at an institute founded by a Paris physician named Alfred Tomatis, who pioneered the use of Mozart's music to treat all sorts of childhood disorders as well as adult ailments including depression. Few national authorities officially recognize the treatment, and traditional music therapists are deeply skeptical. Still, Poland is currently introducing Tomatis' methods nationwide in centers that help children with learning difficulties. And in the London suburb of Richmond, Jackie Hindley credits it with helping her 6-year...