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Giving ADHD Drugs to Kids Has a Long-Term Side Effect That Might Change Their Minds About Taking It

Futurism

Beginning in 1994, researchers across the country began tracking outcomes of children who were seven to ten years old at the start of the study. After 36 months, the researchers realized something odd: that the children whohad been given the popular stimulant seemed to be growing more slowly than their non-medicated counterparts.

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COVID Cut Giving By Women More Than By Men

The NonProfit Times

Those data points are from a new study of 20 years of gender and giving trends in a new report “Women Giving 2024” from the Womens Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Ackerman is the studys primary author.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In particular, electronic books (or e-books) offer the possibility of dramatically improving access for students with disabilities – and for disadvantaged children everywhere. With this universal design approach , e-books that meet the needs of students with disabilities simply work better for everyone.

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Apple will reportedly scan photos stored on iPhones and iCloud for child abuse imagery

The Verge

neuralMatch, which was trained using 200,000 images from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, will roll out first in the US. Once a certain number of photos are marked as suspect, Apple will enable all the suspect photos to be decrypted and, if apparently illegal, passed on to the relevant authorities.”.

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The Mother-Led Movement to Save Our Kids’ Climate

Saleforce Nonprofit

I believe that our children’s generation is key to creating lasting change in equality, justice, climate change, and human rights. It’s the gift of having my children teach me that everyday actions can make a world of difference. Children are teaching their parents that everyday actions can make a world of difference.

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Disney sues to keep its Avengers copyrights assembled

The Verge

They ask courts to declare that Disney has sole ownership of comics like The Avengers, Iron Man , Amazing Spider-Man , Strange Tales , and Tales of Suspense — including the characters and story elements that have formed the basis for Disney’s lucrative Marvel Cinematic Universe. The efforts have had limited success.

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Debunking 3 Myths About Digital Transformation

Saleforce Nonprofit

Technology is a key enabler for RMU, helping the university understand and serve the needs of its community. As RMU President Dr. Chris Howard puts it, technology is one of the key enablers that pushes the university toward its goals: “[We want to be] the most agile, professionally career-focused university in the country.

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