The vast majority of kids on Ritalin have reading problems. Why is that?
I had a choice to make when my son was diagnosed with ADHD. He had a huge reading problem. I was told that Ritalin would help him to concentrate better. However, the thought of drugging my son was abhorent to me. I took the harder route. I investigated what actually was his problem and found three separate therapies for him. But his problem was found to be due to the fact that in the first two years of his schooling he was taught using a totally inadequate reading program that in itself created his severe reading difficulty. He's now 16 and is doing well academically. I am homeschooling him.
Kindergarten, first and second grade set the stage for learning in the following years. And most schools are not doing the best job of teaching children to read. So we end up with an intellectual cripple whose only recourse is to take a drug which cannot cure them.