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Aspen Ranch
Aspen Ranch offers programs for troubled teens that are based on teaching four core values: Respect, Responsibility, Relationships, and Integrity. The Ranch provides adolescents with a supportive structure and therapeutic activities, which are goal-oriented and address specific developmental skill and knowledge deficits as well as emotional and behavioral problems.
Living in a therapeutic environment, attending an individually paced school designed for success, participating in individual and group therapy, and involvement in a life-changing Equine Program, allows Aspen Ranch students to experience success, and rediscover a sense of self worth.
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Lone Star Expeditions
Lone Star is a licensed therapeutic intervention that combines traditional therapy with a wilderness setting to engage students in exploring their character in a safe, but challenging environment. Located about one hour outside Houston, Lone Star helps teens struggling with behavioral and emotional problems and also has specialization in addiction treatment and school phobia, and issues such as ADHD, high-functioning autism, and attachment disorders related to adoption.
This summer, your child can take part in a therapeutic wilderness program AND earn accredited academics. Lone Star also offers a wide range of educational and psychological testing.
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TV and Video Games Could Cause Attention and Learning Disorders
Too much time spent watching television and playing video games puts children at risk for attention and learning problems as well as academic failure, according to researchers at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Other research has indicated that watching television may cause lower grades because it takes too much time away from homework and reading. However, this new study, published in the May 2007 issue of Pediatrics, concludes that excessive television watching and video game playing may be a contributing factor in whether a child develops learning and attention disorders.
“Whether teens had existing attention or learning problems or whether they don’t have them, they were at greater risk for later attention and learning problems (if they watched too much television),” according to Dr. Jeffrey G. Johnson.
Dr. Johnson and his team interviewed 678 families three times – when their children were ages 14, 16, and 22 years old. Those fourteen-year-olds who watched three or more hours of television daily were more likely to have attention disorders, be bored at school, have bad grades and drop out of high school.
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