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| Yes | 84% | 963 votes | Total: 1140 votes | |
| No | 16% | 177 votes |
Yes
Created on: February 22, 2008 Last Updated: October 16, 2011
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a mental health issue that continues to draw significant
Created on: October 19, 2009
Over diagnosis and misdiagnosis of ADHD is a shameful, horrific, and massive mistake that has gone on
Created on: May 29, 2009
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a very real disorder that when treated with a
Created on: December 03, 2008
Nodding off at his desk as I am teaching a lesson on Measures of Central Tendency, my most "active"
by Bettina Sipe
Created on: February 18, 2009
Whether it's deemed a cop-out or a catch-all, one thing is for certain: ADHD is overdiagnosed in children.
It
Created on: April 05, 2009
If you ask me if I think ADHD is overdiagnosed, I would have to say, "Yes, indeed it is."
When little
Created on: January 11, 2008
We are so quick to pump medications into people for every ailment we can imagine. ADHD is no exception
Created on: June 19, 2008
Based not only on what we've all heard about medications for ADHD, but also on several children I have
Created on: January 27, 2011
Rampant distraction, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity curtail childhood performance in the classroom,
Created on: January 23, 2008
"He isn't hyperactive, he just has ADHD!"
"Don't blame my daughter for acting up in school. She just
Created on: March 06, 2008 Last Updated: March 08, 2008
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 1.6 million elementary school
Created on: December 02, 2008
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ADHD is well and truly over diagnosed in children. I speak from personal experience when I say
Created on: April 07, 2009
Yes it is most definitely over diagnosed, and more to the point is it an escape for negligent parenting
by Julie Spaur
Created on: April 05, 2009
I completely think that the experts and general population are WAY too quick to diagnose a child as
by Melba Dagan
Created on: November 10, 2008
One cannot pick up a paper or magazine without finding at least one article about ADHD. And every article
by Jane Hendry
Created on: April 01, 2008 Last Updated: July 28, 2009
ADHD or educational deficit?
ADHD is a globally recognised diagnosis and there is evidence to support
Created on: June 30, 2008 Last Updated: December 24, 2008
Five year old boys can be a bit rowdy or this is what I believed was the norm for my son. It was not
by Jenny Turpin
Created on: December 02, 2008
Restless children in school can be a hand full for a teacher trying to fit in a required curriculum,
by Joe Biden
Created on: August 26, 2008
Like many kids I got falsely diagnosed with a medical condition because my behavior was a little quirky.
Created on: August 26, 2008 Last Updated: September 11, 2008
I definitely agree that ADHD is over-diagnosed in children. I live in a relatively wealthy mid sized
No
Created on: October 28, 2009 Last Updated: November 03, 2009
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, three to five percent of all children suffer
Created on: June 10, 2009 Last Updated: June 11, 2009
I am a full time student with ADHD, and have felt the affects of not being diagnosed until I was 17.
by Ronni Dee
Created on: December 17, 2008
While many parents are getting annoyed at seeing all the literature in magazines, and all the advertisements
Created on: October 28, 2009
Is ADHD over diagnosed in children?
Having read a great deal about ADHD, lived with it in myself, my
by Ann Moody
Created on: January 30, 2008
As a girl growing up in the 1970s, a time when ADHD was NOT the diagnosis du Jour, children who had
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