Well,thankyou for replying so promptly,,,as you have a son with A.D.D no 
doubt you understand that as parents and siblings it can be very hard to deal 
with.We are only just realizing how much this disorder actually affects other 
children in the family that don't have A.D.D,,,,,,,,,I found your comments 
very interesting and thankyou for the time and effort,,,,,it is unfortunate 
that there is so much hype about A.D.D because it makes it very hard for 
parents to work out who's right,,,,,,as I told you before Ritalin has had a 
dramatic impact with my daughter eg: October 96 she just started treatment 
and when tested her reading level was 6yr 9 m (she's 9) 6months later and her 
level went to 8yr 1 m,,,,,and now she is reading childrens novels that before 
she would just screw her nose up at,,,,,having a really lovely teacher from 
school who tutors her outside of school has made a big difference,,,,where we 
live though there seems to be little or no recourses to help parents and 
children,,,,,,I got most of my info on A.D.D from a book called "you and your 
A.D.D child" written by Ian Wallace. When I first read this book I cried 
because it was like the book was written about my daughter and yet I was also 
angry because we have had problems since birth and all the doctors thought it 
was me who had the problem because there still are a lot of doctors who don't 
believe in A.D.D,,,,,,so after a while you begin to believe that maybe you 
just aren't parenting right,,,,,but after implementing many of the 
suggestions from the above named book along with medication we are all much 
happier and now have a daughter that instead of saying she is stupid is 
feeling much more confident,,,,,and is progressing everyday,,,,I will look up 
the info you suggested on the internet it certainly is a mine field of info 
Trouble was I think was that I was looking up that other medicine you 
mentioned pycno something and was coming up only with bad things about 
Ritalin but as you say it was all adverts so of course they are going to bag 
Ritalin,,,,,anyway thanks again ......
cya
Lisa Madge
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