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...person who works on a diagnostic team studying children with various issues, I was surprised by your lumping ADHD into a severe-mental-illness category. First, ADHD, most often considered a disorder, can be apparent as early as 4 or 5, as soon as a child is required to sit still in a formal setting. It can last into old age. The prevention you cite is simplistic at best: you don't prevent ADHD; you manage it. Carol Freedman, MATAWAN...
...appropriate public education for a disabled child, but most also say that public funds should not be used to pay for residential schools like Mount Bachelor. Such programs, they say, are overly restrictive and unproven, and virtually all their students - who typically have depression, substance use, behavioral problems or ADHD - can be safely treated within the community...
...that typically qualifies a student for special education. Notes taken by the school district in a January 2001 meeting about TA include a comment that says "maybe ADD [attention-deficit disorder]/ADHD [attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder]?," but TA's parents say they were not informed that a diagnosis of ADHD could have qualified him for special education if the condition affected his academic performance. The school did not further evaluate him for attention disorders. (See pictures of teenagers in America...
...spotting it better in kids who do. That makes it look like the condition is on the rise when it's not. All you have to do is find a schoolteacher or principal and ask them that question. They would say they've never seen so much ADHD, autism, OCD as in the past. I think we're overdiagnosing it by maybe 1%. Now you look around and there are five shadows - kids with disabilities - in every class...
Such research is in its infancy, though, and if you have a child with ADHD, it's important to understand that he processes the world in a different way. He might be (literally) running circles around you, but that may be his way of paying attention...