The rate of children, from the age of four to eleven, has jumped from a rate of only three to five percent to now over 15 percent of children are being diagnosed and taking medication for ADHD. An even more alarming number is that more than 20 percent of high school boys are being informed that they have ADHD (EurekAlert, Frances, Newmark). Diagnosis of ADHD are similar in other countries such as: Taiwan, Canada, and Iceland. The case study using those countries they looked at the children and their age cutoff as the major factor for the ADHD diagnosis. All three of those countries had very similar results. When comparing the oldest child to the youngest child in the classroom, the youngest one was 53-61 percent more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. Out of that percentage, 71-73 percent of those children were prescribed stimulants for their ADHD tendencies (Chen,
The rate of children, from the age of four to eleven, has jumped from a rate of only three to five percent to now over 15 percent of children are being diagnosed and taking medication for ADHD. An even more alarming number is that more than 20 percent of high school boys are being informed that they have ADHD (EurekAlert, Frances, Newmark). Diagnosis of ADHD are similar in other countries such as: Taiwan, Canada, and Iceland. The case study using those countries they looked at the children and their age cutoff as the major factor for the ADHD diagnosis. All three of those countries had very similar results. When comparing the oldest child to the youngest child in the classroom, the youngest one was 53-61 percent more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. Out of that percentage, 71-73 percent of those children were prescribed stimulants for their ADHD tendencies (Chen,