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over identification of children with attention deficit disorder
Category: Reference, Education and News > Education Asked by: chuck22-ga List Price: $25.00 |
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29 Jun 2006 09:31 PDT
Expires: 29 Jul 2006 09:31 PDT Question ID: 742047 |
Is the over identification of children with attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD) directly related to teachers and school administrators who ignore other possible methods of intervention! |
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Re: over identification of children with attention deficit disorder
From: aussietpp-ga on 29 Jun 2006 11:20 PDT |
Teachers thinks the child is ADD/ADHD turns out the child is dyslexic, not ADD/ADHD. Happened to a friend of mine. |
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Re: over identification of children with attention deficit disorder
From: pinkfreud-ga on 29 Jun 2006 12:09 PDT |
The surest way for a community to suddenly acquire a large number of students with a certain sort of disability is for additional funds or other incentives to be made available for special programs that help such students. Magically, if extra money or equipment or other goodies are offered to school districts which have X number of students with a diagnosis of "crumbled widgie syndrome," overnight there will be at least X number (and usually more) of students who are said to be suffering from the malady in question. There will be crumbled widgie specialists coming out of the woodwork, and parents will be dismayed to learn that their childrens' widgies aren't quite what they oughta be (but can be improved with hefty infusions of taxpayer dollars). I don't mean to imply that ADD and ADHD are not real; I'm quite certain that they are. But I also think that the majority of the kids who are said to have these conditions are, in fact, normal kids. |
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Re: over identification of children with attention deficit disorder
From: myoarin-ga on 30 Jun 2006 04:02 PDT |
I agree with Chuck and Pink. Even without the funding, just the "official" recognition of ADD allows teachers to tack the name to behavior that seems symptomatic, thereby absolving themselves and those kids (and parents) of responsibility. I wonder how many such "in-school ADD" children can sit glued to their computers with no signs of attention deficiency? |
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Re: over identification of children with attention deficit disorder
From: thursdaylast23-ga on 30 Jun 2006 06:07 PDT |
While you don't mention drugs explicitly, I'd say the medication factor plays a key role in the dynamic of the problem. From talking to personal friends (both parents and teachers) and reading occasional articles on the ADD/ADHD issue, I think that, along with funding "incentives" as a potential factor, there are parents who press to have their children diagnosed so they can be put on medication; there are teachers who press for the same thing (as happened to a friend, who preferred other interventions for her child than a simple "drug solution"); and there are probably medical practitioners who may choose the diagnosis/prescription route as a way to satisfy and/or reassure parents. And then there is an educational system that emphasizes success on standardized tests as a primary avenue to educational progress (additional pressure on parents, students, and teachers to do whatever necessary to ensure that, etc.). It seems to me like it's a complex, troubling issue that involves a number of factors/dynamics. |
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