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Larry B. Silver, MD, serves as LDDI's medical advisor on our Practice Prevention columns. Dr. Silver, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, is in private practice in the Washington, DC, area. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center. Prior to his current activities, he was acting director and deputy director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) of the National Institutes of Health. Prior to his positions at the NIMH he was professor of psychiatry, professor of pediatrics, and chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine.
For more than forty years his primary areas of research, clinical and teaching interest have focused on the psychological, social, and family impact of a group of related, neurologically-based disorders -- learning disabilities, language disabilities, sensory processing disorder, and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Dr. Silver has more than 150 publications, including the popular book, The Misunderstood Child: A Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities, now in its fourth edition. His other books include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Clinical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment for Health and Mental Health Professionals, in its third edition; and Dr. Larry Silver’s Advice to Parents on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, in its second edition.
His most recent books include two co-edited by Dr. Frank Kline and are intended for general education teachers: The Educator’s Guide to Medical Issues in the Classroom (2001) and The Educator’s Guide to Mental Health Issues in the Classroom (2004). In October 2010
the American Academy of Pediatrics published Guide to Learning Disabilities for Primary Care Physicians.
He is active with the Learning Disabilities Association of America and is a past president of this organization. In 1992 he received this Association’s highest award, The Learning Disabilities Association Award, for outstanding leadership in the field of Learning Disabilities. In 1996 he received the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Berman Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the study and treatment of Learning Disabilities.
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