Harvard Study: Children Who Start School Early More Likely to Get ADHD Diagnosis — Even If They Don’t Have It
November 28, 2018
By: Valerie Strauss
Source: The Washington Post
Harvard University researchers have found that children who start school up to a year sooner than many of their peers are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD — even if they don’t really have the condition. As a result, large numbers of children may be improperly labeled with the disorder when, instead, they are just immature.
In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers looked at the records of more than 407,000 children from every state and found that younger children in the same grouping of students had a 30 percent higher risk for an ADHD diagnosis than older students.