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Minority children less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD

Minority children are far less likely than their white counterparts to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a new study in this week journal Pediatrics.

More than 5 million children in the United States have been diagnosed with ADHD, according to theCenters for Disease Control. children. A diagnosis can help kids get birkin by hermes replica the proper treatment and medication they need, and early intervention can be key in helping a hermes birkin 30 replica child learn.

strength is in the number. It a solid study . and reflects the whole country. said Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a pediatric neurologist at Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital in Cleveland who was not involved in the study.

Disproportionate populations are an issue in special education, said Morgan, an education professor at Penn State.

what been reported is over representation, he said. tendency is that more minorities are overplaced in special education. But when you control for a lot of background characteristics, so that the only thing that you measure, the few studies that do that for special education, (have) found that minorities are less likely to get services. when Morgan and his colleagues accounted for factors such as socioeconomics, low birth weight, and mother age, the disparity in ADHD diagnosis between minority and white children persisted.

think we can say the disparities occur, he said. But researchers don know why warrants other investigation. Read some books on ADD, get educated and stop jumping to conclusions.

I don disagree that many people are misdiagnosed or that some parents think their kids have ADD because they aren sitting their acting perfectly.

However, your generalization is quite wrong and not based on fact. ADD is very real obsticale for those who have it. It can be managed though and isn something used as an excuse.

June 26, 2013 at 12:06

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Well I had it all my life. And I didn get any diagnosis in grade or grammar or even highschool. got the test on my own in college. remembering when the school counselor told my mother that I was not material makes a lot of sense to me at least now reading this article. We (blacks) have encountered so many wolfs that decide for whatever reason to hold back or prevent little black kids from achieving. I am living proof of it. So all the comments from weaver combined lets me know that indifference is still alive. Folks like that can even say that blacks are what they described. So easy to call you folks that think like that all the same. I recognize that not all whites and non whites think short sited like these examples. It is what it is though.

June 26, 2013 at 16:48

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Val you make a good point. I also had ADD/ADHD all my life, but being a white female it was probably easier to recognize as a rather than me just being a birkin bags prices cheap screw up.

If a white kid is acting up in class, unable to focus and has trouble controlling their impulses and actions, then the first reason most people think of is that they have ADHD. But if a black kid does the same thing, it seems like most people are quick to assume that they are just another trouble maker. The white kid parents get no blame, while the black kid parents get accused of not raising him properly.

That probably a big reason why more white kids are diagnosed with the disease than others.

I don think most people assume these things on purpose, but I think it happens a lot, unfortunately

July 10, 2013 at 22:37

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Honestly, I believe that a lot of kids are misdiagnosed with ADHD and do have poor parents. And yes, it was their choice, but a lot of these people were a lot worse off in their original countries also. to not have a health care system like Canada gold hermes birkin cheap or England or France or many other countries. denial on your claim. I would gladly pay higher taxes for a health care system like that. And anyone who cares about other peoples well being would too. The problem is the republicans spew all this crap about how socialized medicine is bad and how our system is somehow great, even though we are ranked 37th in the world when it comes to health care. Pathetic.

June 26, 2013 at 05:43

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Saying that white parents are worse than blacks and hispanics purely because more white kids are diagnosed with ADHD is a baseless and simple minded blanket statement. It would be equally valid/invalid to say that blacks and hispanics are worse parents due to the fact that their kids have worse grades on average.

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