An Australian psychologist named Luise Kazda has studied this very question. In a 2021 review paper, she and her colleagues found 14 studies in which receiving an A.D.H.D. diagnosis created a sense of “empowerment” by “supporting a sense of legitimacy accompanied by understanding and sympathy as well as decreased guilt, blame and anger.” But in … Read more
The learning process and developmental years have been adversely affected for countless children, as homes cannot provide a similarly stimulating learning environment and focus. By Rajeev Bhatt, With the pandemic lasting about two years and everyone adjusting to the “new normal”, many institutions experienced severe barriers and have been unable to provide the same quality … Read more
Duane Gordon was a project manager at a firm in Montreal when his boss asked him to run the Monday morning meeting. “I was excited because this was obviously a test of [whether] I could eventually be groomed for taking over the department,” he recalls. That discussion took place on Friday afternoon. On Monday, … Read more
Kids who are younger than most of the students in their grade may have a harder time paying attention, sitting still, or controlling their behavior. Those things happen to be symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), too. ADHD is one of the most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorders in children in the U.S. But some … Read more