Quote:
Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I didn't read you that way; my objections were mostly to Atticus' approach, which I read as overdiscounting the potential for drugs to do good, but I also read you as putting too much weight in the studies and the last fifty years of experience. My experience has led me to believe that the first forty of those fifty years were terribly unproductive!
|
I don't discount the ability of drugs to do wonders for kids with severe diagnoses. Last I heard, neither ADD nor ADHD were simply a yes/no proposition. I would hope the degree would play a role in the medication process, too. I used the term "unmanageable" for a reason.
I think I shared on the other board my sister's experience with a parent who pulled her son off Ritalin for the achievement portion of an achievement/aptitude disparity test, and put him back on for the aptitude portion. She chemically created a 20 percentile disparity, making her son eligible for additional district funding. That story left a bad taste in my mouth that has affected my views on the role of medication.
