NiallNai

If I'm reading your avatar section correct then your daughter is 6 years old. I think it is very difficult to diagnose a 6 year old with ADHD. My wife jokingly (and sometimes half-jokingly) asks me if I think out 11 month old son has bipolar disorder because he goes from laughing to crying so quickly. I keep telling her no. If I put it in Freudian terms, Brian is a walking Id. There isn't much in the way of controls over his emotions.

The same thought should be applied to children. Sustaining concentration is something that people need to be trained to do. That doesn't mean ADHD doesn't have anything to do with a chemical imbalance but when you have a young child it is a lot harder to say that it is a chemical imbalance or defect because the brain is still maturing and sustaining attention and putting off our impulses is something that also takes practice.

I don't blame you for being leery about putting your child on medication. Particularly at that age.

If you find out the full name of the test and/or the test publisher, I'd be interested in finding it out. Even if you felt more comfortable PMing it to me. There are a lot of intelligence tests out there. Some that are used more than others. If I were to say what the "industry standards" are, I would say the Wechsler series, the Stanford-Binet, and the Woodcock-Johnson. There are a few other ones that get high praise as well.

I've also seen some tests that I find rather shakey because they are really only testing one thing.

The ones I mentioned above require that the administrator/interpreter of those test have extensive training in giving those tests. There are also severe restrictions on who may purchase those tests from the publisher. Was this evaluation completed by the school district?

Again, if I'm asking too much, please feel free to say so.

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