{"id":18444,"date":"2018-10-14T18:25:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T18:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18444"},"modified":"2018-10-14T18:25:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T18:25:23","slug":"adhd-overdiagnosis-in-younger-students-says-global-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18444","title":{"rendered":"ADHD overdiagnosis in younger students, says global study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"66\">\n<p>Researchers are warning teachers and clinicians are mistaking immaturity in the classroom for attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder or ADHD.<\/p>\n<p>A global study shows the youngest children in a classroom are often compared with their older and more mature classmates and that is leading to overdiagnosis in the younger students.<\/p>\n<p>The lead author of the study worries that an ADHD misdiagnosis can blind clinicians to other roots causes of problems.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Mereana Hond has more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are warning teachers and clinicians are mistaking immaturity in the classroom for attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder or ADHD. A global study shows the youngest children in a classroom are often compared with their older and more mature classmates and that is leading to overdiagnosis in the younger students. The lead author of the study worries that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}