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...numbers have grown, ADHD awareness has become an industry, a passion, an almost messianic movement. An advocacy and support group called CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders) has exploded from its founding in 1987 to 28,000 members in 48 states. Information bulletin boards and support groups for adults have sprung up on CompuServe, Prodigy and America Online. Numerous popular books have been published on the subject. There are summer camps designed to help ADHD kids, videos and children's books with titles like Jumpin' Johnny Get Back to Work! and, of course, therapists, tutors and workshops offering...
...attempt to promote the positive side of ADHD, some CHADD chapters circulate lists of illustrious figures who, they contend, probably suffered from the disorder: the messy and disorganized Ben Franklin, the wildly impulsive and distractible Winston Churchill. For reasons that are less clear, these lists also include folks like Socrates, Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci -- almost any genius of note. (At least two doctors interviewed for this story suggested that the sometimes scattered Bill Clinton belongs on the list...
Among the most important clues doctors look for is whether the child's problems can be linked to some specific experience or time or whether they have been present almost from birth. "You don't suddenly get ADD," says Wade Horn, a child psychologist and former executive director of CHADD. Taking a careful history is therefore vital...
...raise $2.5 million by year's end to keep Stuart's famous paintings of George and Martha Washington from eloping to the National Portrait Gallery in that other Washington, Wyeth came down from Maine to contribute to Boston's "Save Our Stuarts" campaign. The guru of Chadd's Ford even posed, check in hand, with Curator Theodore Stebbins Jr. at the Museum of Fine Arts under Stuart's George...
...Bloch, of Ossining, N.Y. (Mathematics); Eric S. Brondfield, of Roslyn Heights, N.Y. (Physics); Richard J. Defouw, of Port Washington, N.Y. (Astronomy); Benjamin M. Friedman, of Louisville, Ky. (Economics); William E. Kerstetter Jr., of Greencastle, Ind. (English); E. Perry Link Jr., of Plattsburgh, N.Y. (Philosophy); William G. Quinn Jr., of Chadd's Ford, Pa. (Biology); Charles D. Troob, of Forest Hills, N.Y. (History and Literature), and Robert D. Yee, of San Francisco, Calif. (Biology...