Posted on 03/19/2016 9:07:41 AM PDT by PROCON
One in seven American children aged 2 to 8 suffers from a mental, behavioral or developmental problem, federal health officials report.
Researchers analyzed data supplied by parents in the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health, looking for reported speech and language problems, learning disabilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, anxiety and more.
"Based on the number of kids affected, this is something we need to pay attention to," said lead researcher Jennifer Kaminski, team leader for child development studies at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The researchers found that young children with mental, behavioral or developmental disorders were less likely than others to have access to medical care that was family-centered, continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, compassionate and culturally effective.
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No, they are not. The incidence of reported cases is up. There is a difference.
In 2009, in an article on people in Appalachia pulling kids out of literacy classes to make certain they kept SSDI payments for “disabled” kids, it reported that about 8% of kids in the lower class had some sort of learning disability / diagnosis.
I’m certain that rate is even higher, because of the money and benefits associated with it.
It’s certainly over-diagnosed in boys, who are simply being boys. The true cases are rare but of a different order of magnitude when you see them.
My school teacher niece had a boy in her elementary grade class who was more than just disruptive, he would attack the other kids in the class. He would act up when he got frustrated with his inability to concentrate. He may have dyslexia as well.
My niece recommended testing so that the kid could get some extra help that the school district offers. The parents wouldn’t go for it so he remained in the class and continued to get angry and frustrated. It finally came to a head when he physically attacked another teacher and the parents were forced to acknowledge that the kid needs special help. This is a young kid, second or third grade. He’s not just a normal boy with too much energy. He is intelligent but has some kind of learning disability that provokes his behavior.
Its not all REAL
The parents get an excuse for not parenting.
“Out of control and no discipline? Why, no! My crumb cruncher has ...”
“Its not all REAL”
If you read my posts I said that it is over-diagnosed and somewhat rare. The real ADD cases jump out at you.
Me too, but the old "Dad's belt" trick kept me in line and I'm no worse off for it.
Subsidize something, get more of it. Penalize it, get less. That’s the case in part here, but there really is something wrong with any number of kids, too, and I don’t really know what the source might be. Lax parenting, too much electronic media, weird effects of food additives, plastics, don’t know but it’s not all faking it for a government check.
“One “advantage” of ADD/ADHD is that there is no objective diagnostic. No blood test, EEG, etc. “
This is also true of both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. The diagnosis is somewhat subjective but no one would argue that they don’t exist. In their early stages or milder forms the impairment isn’t easily spotted by most people.
Long gone are the days when parents would say "go outside and play".
When I grew up, every summer day my buddies and I would be at the local playground playing baseball. Now a days you see absolutely no kids playing ball on the playground by themselves, those that play are on little league and travel teams.........
Well, what do they expect when the society feeds heavy doses opf sugar and video mania to the boys in their early years?
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Got to find some jobs for all the burger flipping psychology majors who wasted their parents’ money padding tenured faculty retirement funds.
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Got to create new imaginary mental conditions to hype demand for drug companies to sell stuff to perfectly fine, but undisciplined and improperly raised children.
Asia began a program of using Western vaccines in their countries but the skyrocketing rates of autism to match America has made the practice controversial for some reason.
Don't the parents know that autistics make docile factory workers that are willing to work for low wages? Don't they care about the bottom line?
Stick kids in classrooms listening to “feminist” harpies
all day, jammed together in large groups & after a few
years of this, bodies finally rebel. Not normal; got to
be a better way.
Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diagnoses are much more definite than ADD/ADHD/whatever the designation du jour is.
Especially Parkinson’s, with uncontrollable tremors.
The childhood affliction that is diagnosed in young boys is usually an excuse that parents use to wave away charges of permissiveness.
I have one son who was diagnosed with Aspergers, and two cousins older than him who were diagnosed with ADD/ADHD.
My son was not given psychotropic drugs. He became a well paid mechanical engineer.
He had mental problems I attribute to my poor parenting at the time. I was drinking heavily and left him in his room to play a lot of video games (and still does to some extent). His social skills suffered considerably because of this, in my opinion, hence the diagnosis.
I am not sure about drugs given to the cousins, but the youngest one turned out to be a well spoken, well adjusted young man. The oldest cousin came out as gay and flaunted it to the extended family along with some family secrets to stir up as much drama as possible.
The biggest difference between the two sets of children were father figures. The cousins’ father and mother divorced when the youngest was just a baby, but the oldest (the gay one) was old enough to remember the fights between his parents and his father’s departure.
So because of my direct observations of my children and their peers, I wouldn’t attribute hardly any of the mental illness we see today among them to anything biological, except mind-altering drugs.
There is no disease, disorder, or vaccination causing teenagers to think they are werewolves, or cats, or dragons, but all of a sudden we have thousands of them.
We had thousands of them back when I was growing up too. They were “cured” after they reached 4 or 5 years old, though.
I don’t know who’s right or who’s wrong, but a recent FR thread questioned if kids were being diagnosed with ADHD, for example, for convenience of the teachers who are probably tired of “babysitting” these kids (my wording).
ADHD is vastly overdiagnosed and many children are just immature, say scientists
“Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diagnoses are much more definite than ADD/ADHD/whatever the designation du jour is.
“Especially Parkinson’s, with uncontrollable tremors.”
Parkinson’s doesn’t always present the tremors that people think defines it. There’s a list of symptoms that are associated with a Parkinson’s diagnosis, and when you present enough of them you have it. I have a close relative who has Parkinson’s without the tremors. At this point we don’t treat it with medication but we do keep an eye for any progression.
Likewise there is no test for Alzheimer’s other than a post mortem examination of brain tissue. The diagnosis is made from a list of symptoms, some of which are difficult to separate from other forms of mental deterioration. When you have elderly relatives as I do you learn far more about these diseases than you ever wish to.
Parkinson’s doesn’t always present the tremors that people think defines it. There’s a list of symptoms that are associated with a Parkinson’s diagnosis, and when you present enough of them you have it. I have a close relative who has Parkinson’s without the tremors. At this point we don’t treat it with medication but we do keep an eye for any progression.
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Yes, there is a progression and there are stages. As I said, they are much more definite.
Also, as you said, Alzheimer’s can only be 100% verified via autopsy.
Given that, equivocating ADD/ADHD and these two definite diseases is not proper, in my opinion. I’ve seen ADD/ADHD “reversed”, whereas neither disease you’ve used as equivalent examples of disorders have ever regressed.
You say you have a lot of experience with elderly relatives. Have you raised any children diagnosed with ADD/ADHD/Asperger’s Syndrome/autism spectrum (that is, “high-functioning” autistic)?
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