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ADHD and Children Who Are Gifted: Just how difficult is it to diagnose ADD and ADHD? As this article by James T. Webb and Diane Latimer should point out to you, before they diagnose your child as ADD, you should take a look at the bigger picture. You might be thinking there¨s no way gifted can be mistaken for ADD. Well, a good friend of mine took a placement test in second grade to see if he should be promoted to a higher grade...the result? Instead of passing him higher, they said he was ADD and wanted to hold him back! Read this article!

Life in Overdrive: By Claudia Wallis with reporting by Hannah Bloch, Wendy Cole, and James Willwerth If you are to read any one report on ADD/ADHD, this is it. It might be long, but it has everything. Does ADD exist? How is it diagnosed? What is the treatment? Are there risks with treatment? Are drugs the answer? This article will give you the background you need to understand the basis and biases of the other research out there. Read it!