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There are children who display behaviors, which are consistent with some of the diagnostic criteria for ADHD. This presents a genuine management issue for the child, their parents and often the school as well. There has been a significant increase in the number of children (and more recently adults) who are being diagnosed with ADHD or similar over the last 20 years. So what has led to this increase in diagnosis and, what can be done to manage the problem? The diagnosis of ADHD is based on fulfilling certain criteria and is completely subjective.
There is no scan or blood test to detect the condition. Certain behaviors may be acceptable in certain circumstances but not others. For example, grabbing a person and throwing them to the ground is acceptable on some sports fields but not in the street. The behavior is the same but the context is different. Answering questions early is rewarded on TV quiz shows with buzzers but are one of the diagnostic criteria for ADHD in a classroom setting.
The issue then is how we look at behaviors may have changed more over the last 20 years than the behaviors themselves. Furthermore, children are not actually designed to sit still for long periods of time. Boys, in particular, need to be running around to use up pent-up energy. The number of avenues for them to do this has decreased. Fewer children walk or ride to school and they are less likely to run around in a park after school.
They still have the same amount of energy to burn up as their predecessors. Bottle up this energy and it may well come out where you do not want it. Another significant change has been the teaching methods for literacy. The whole of language approach, which has become almost a religion in certain education circles, does not serve the interest of all children and particularly not a large number of boys who will learn literacy in a phonetic manner.
There is no scan or blood test to detect the condition. Certain behaviors may be acceptable in certain circumstances but not others. For example, grabbing a person and throwing them to the ground is acceptable on some sports fields but not in the street. The behavior is the same but the context is different. Answering questions early is rewarded on TV quiz shows with buzzers but are one of the diagnostic criteria for ADHD in a classroom setting.
The issue then is how we look at behaviors may have changed more over the last 20 years than the behaviors themselves. Furthermore, children are not actually designed to sit still for long periods of time. Boys, in particular, need to be running around to use up pent-up energy. The number of avenues for them to do this has decreased. Fewer children walk or ride to school and they are less likely to run around in a park after school.
They still have the same amount of energy to burn up as their predecessors. Bottle up this energy and it may well come out where you do not want it. Another significant change has been the teaching methods for literacy. The whole of language approach, which has become almost a religion in certain education circles, does not serve the interest of all children and particularly not a large number of boys who will learn literacy in a phonetic manner.
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