• Question: is diagnosing someone with ADHD is hard?

    Asked by mrtree13 to Simon on 21 Jun 2011.
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      Simon Trent answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Diagnosing ADHD requires a professional, such as the local doctor, the parents of the kids themselves and probably a teacher as well, because to have ADHD you need to be showing symptoms in more than one environment (such as home and school). There is a checklist-type way of diagnosing ADHD and someone would need a certain amount of ‘ticks’ before they could be diagnosed with it.

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