The Role Of ADHD In Children

It seems as if every young child, or teenager is being diagnosed with ADHD. Since there is no DNA, blood, or solid evidence to prove if someone has this disorder how does society know that they have ADHD or are just a little immature. Studies from the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, 6.4 million children in the U.S. have an ADHD diagnosis from a doctor or healthcare provider which is a 42 percent increase from 2003 through 2004 to 2011 through 2012. So that means that either people have been going hundreds of years not diagnosed with this disorder and people are being diagnosed as a simple solution. Dr. Mu-Hong Chen and other colleagues studied the ages of children and their who were diagnosed with ADHD. These studies proved that children in the same grade born in September were less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than those born in September.

But does this mean that doctors are diagnosing patients with ADHD just because they are less mature than some of their peers instead of having a definite behavioral hyperactivity? Clearly the diagnoses of ADHD is up for question. New research has proven that the maturity level of the child does play a role in the child 's performance at school. But that doesn 't mean that the child automatically has ADHD because he or she can 't pay attention as well as someone a year older. Therefore why is there such a raise in