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Treatment is not only about school reports. Lower rates of accidental injury and of other serious harms are reasons in their own right, even for a child whose marks are perfectly fine.
This is the answer to the question about the bright child who is coping academically and whose impulsivity worries you in traffic, on a bike, or…
Untreated ADHD is not free. It turns up in appointments, in repeat trips to A and E, in school reports and in lost work, and the bill lands on the family either way.
So when the cost of treatment is the reason for waiting, it is worth adding up what is already going out, in money and in hours and in the things…
Gathering disruptive children into one room to learn social skills leaves about a quarter of them worse than before. They pick things up from each other far faster than from the adult at the front.
This is not a reason to give up on helping a child socially. It is a reason to look hard at who else is in the group before you accept a place in it.…
The warning about group social skills work is about loud, disruptive children. A quiet, anxious child who simply has not had much practice with other children is a different case, and a gentle group may be exactly right.
So the question is not whether groups work, but which child is sitting in front of you. If the difficulty really is inexperience, a group offers…
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