Attention Deficit Disorder: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing...Again.

Abstract

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is currently enjoying a resurgence in popularity as an efficient means to classify children as learning disabled (LD) and hence entitled to special education serv ices. As an etiological medical term, which can only be diagnosed by a properly licensed professional, it carries a certain veracity for nonmedical professionals even in the absence of firm clinical and research support bases. In contrast to reading education, special education has a tradition of seeking the etiol ogy of a learning problem as a fundamental part of planning an instructional program (Sawyer and Wilson, 1979). The ever increas ing use of ADD as a justification for applying an LD label and placing children with reading problems in special education programs has ominous implications for both reading educa tors and children with reading difficulties.

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