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Stephen Hinshaw, “Understanding ADHD” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Neuroscience

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Why Is It Important to Diagnose a Child With a DHD?

Authors: If you get a kid diagnosed and treated, maybe that'll boost their achievement. They say there may be incentive for the district to say, oh my god, we got to get our testcors up. In some districts, in some states, if you diagnose a child with a d h d back then and the or a eatatation, all of a sudden they get the asterisk, and their scores are pulled out of the district score. So some districts were gaiming the system. Some people would say, so what? More kids get diagnosed. Medicated helps everybody. We're not doing very well, achievement wise in our society.

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