One of the great things about homeschooling is that your child can be a child and not a label. Teaching / Learning is based on their strengths not their weaknesses.
"Nationally, 1.6 to 2 million people have been diagnosed with ADD and ADHD."
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2004/10/20/news/11159.shtml
"ADHD was first described by Dr. Heinrich Hoffman in 1845."
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/adhd/nimhadhdpub.pdf
This truly surprised me, because I had always heard differently:
"The main finding was that the variation in prevalence associated with the samples’ geographic origin did not fit a pattern consistent with the notion that ADHD is a byproduct of American culture. The North American rate (6.2%) only slightly exceeded the European rate (4.6%). The highest rates emerged from Africa (8.5%) and South America (11.8%). Corroboration comes from a dimensional ADHD scale used in 21 countries. Japanese and Finnish children scored lowest, Jamaican and Thai children scored highest, and American children scored about average (7)."
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/164/6/856
“Dyslexia, a reading disorder that persists despite good schooling and normal or even above-average intelligence, (is) a handicap that affects up to 1 in 5 schoolchildren in the U.S.”
“"The majority of students who get identified with learning disorders get identified between the ages of 11 and 17," says Robert Pasternack, Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services at the U.S. Department of Education.”
“Dyslexics are also more likely than nondyslexics to end up in prison. According to Frank Wood, a professor of neurology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, new research shows that children with dyslexia are also more likely to drop out of school, withdraw from friends and family or attempt suicide.”
My Comment: I found this comment interesting, it leads me to question if the causes of dyslexia causes these affects as well OR is it the social – emotional issues that arise because someone exhibits the symptoms of dyslexia. It would be an interesting study to compare the rates of prison and suicide with children that have dyslexia in the school system compared to the same rates of homeschooled children with dyslexia.
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501030908/story.html
"75% - 80% of special education students identified as LD have their basic deficits in language and reading; Source: National Institutes of Health"
"50% of all students in special education in the public schools have learning disabilities -- 2.25 million children; Source: U.S. Dept. of Education 1992"
My Comment: Does this lead anyone else to wonder that maybe this issue is our definition and not our children?
http://ldhope.com/statistics.html
The DSM diagnosis will qualify one for accommodations in school and in standardized testing such as on the GED Tests.
My Comment: And schools get more money for student’s identified as needing additional help – HMMMMMM! They give you a reason to be labeled and they received a financial benefit to have you labeled. Does anyone see a problem here?
http://www.floridatechnet.org/bridges/factsandstats.pdf
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