Bad Therapy - Prescription for Change

LOA Today - Your Daily Dose Of Happy · Mar 26, 2024 · 1h 11m

Joel Elston's story of being misdiagnosed with dyslexia as a child shows just how early this problem starts. As he recalled, "That's not it. That has nothing to do with not being able to focus for a long period of time on crap I don't like." Yet teachers and professionals persisted in the wrong label.

How many other children have been held back from their potential by diagnoses that don't fit? As Joel said, we are quick to tell kids "it's not your fault because you have ADHD." But this robs them of responsibility for their lives and learning.

Joel knows from personal experience that…