Interesting Article

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My daughter thinks my grandson may have a problem, but her doctor gave her some interesting informaion, that bipolar disorder and many other problems for children are ALL lumped into one category - ADHD.
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This is very true...My son was assessed by a child psychologist and was found to be 2E so gifted and LD. His LD is that his working memory is very slow for basic concepts and is extremely complex. His assessment included a "standardized" test which gave him traits of ADD, the biggest one being that he withdraws. Fortunatly, this psychologist carried out lots of other tests over hours and hours, which proved that it was anything but ADD and that it was simply because the regular world was understimulating on a huge scale and also being gifted, it is common place for gifted children to have difficulties managing their emotions so he would appear depressed also. In his final report, she made it very clear that he does not have ADD, and she also backed up what was the real cause of each of the traits so that the school board, family dr AND his paediatrician would not give him a false diagnosis which she said she sees occur on a frighteningly regular basis, mainly due to standardized testing and the fact that even specialists as well as family dr's involved in the diagnosis do not spend enough time with a child to get a true and thorough assessment done. 20-30 minutes in a dr's office and standardized questionaires to be filled out by parent's, teachers and the individual are not effective or accurate enough and do not apply to a persons individuality, but just approach everybody as though they are created equally.

I was fortunate to find a great Child Psychologist and she spent a couple of FULL DAYS with my son for his assessment, something that would not have been available to me had I not paid for it.

I have read many studies, NOT NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, that show that a gluten free diet is more effective at calming an ADHD child down than Ritalin.