By Dr Patricia Porter
Many children get labeled as having learning issues when there is absolutely no reason for it. Recent research pointed out that as many as one in five children get misdiagnosed as having ADHD. The reason? They are younger than the other children in class and they have not had chance to learn how to pay attention!
Just being misdiagnosed is bad enough, but when a diagnosis comes with medication or special placement, or exclusion form some activities, it damages a child’s education for life. It is easy to make a misdiagnose a child if the person doing it does not take account of the variety of factors that influence learning.
I remember being told of a doctor who was in the process of telling a new mother that her baby had Down’s Syndrome. The new baby had facial features that are associated with this condition.
Fortunately, just as he was about to give the mother this devastating news the baby’s father came to visit. The father had deep set eyes and small ears. The baby looked just like him!
If the doctor had taken the time to meet the father he might not have decided that the baby had Downs syndrome.
This story illustrates the problems of diagnosis without taking all the circumstances into account. Many children are misdiagnosed because teachers and others do not have all the information they need. It is important to understand a child’s physical and emotional skills as well as their cognitive skills before a diagnosis is made.
If teachers had taken the time to look at the ages of the children they assumed had ADHD their diagnosis might have been very different.
A child who is too young for his class may be misdiagnosed with ADHDIf you are concerned that your child is being misdiagnosed by the school you need to find someone who can help you get the information you need to understand your child’s learning issues. You can take this information to your child’s school and insist that they have another look at your child’s learning and educational needs.
Don’t let your child be misdiagnosed, it could mean that your child is put on medication he or she does not need. It could also mean that the expectations teachers have of how well your child learns are lowered and that your child does not get the education he needs or deserves.
The Leading to Learning Diagnostic Learning Assessment – part of the 5 Step Student Success System- is based on a child’s physical, emotional and cognitive skills. There is no chance that a child could be misdiagnosed.
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