Assessing ADHD

Paper Summary:

This paper describes an assessment for ADHD that can be used by school nurses at all grade school levels. The paper claims that the assessment will be useful in the decision to approach parents to allow an ADHD diagnostic battery in a suspected child. The paper also shows how the test will be useful to assess the level of success that any one child's treatment is currently providing. This can lead to earlier, needed treatment adjustments and stop the cycle of problems that are often seen with ADHD that is uncontrolled.

Introduction
Statement of Problem
Literature Review
Methodology Discussion
Assessment Tool
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"This statistic further complicates the ability for early assessment of an ADHD student as the ADHD parent may fail to recognize important signals of the disorder. In addition it can be difficult to determine whether the parent's ADHD impacted parenting style is at the root of the student's difficulty or if the student has the actual disorder.
In one study more than 80 children from preschool were evaluated for effectiveness of parental ability to recognize the symptoms in their own child."

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