Teachers across the country are being trained in psychiatric diagnosis generally and are the one s who start the ball rolling where ADHD and all school-based diagnoses are concerned.
Teachers help identify kids with attention problems.
Therefore, doctors should try to talk to a youngster's teacher before they diagnose ADHD, according to a report in the March issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The agreement between the parents and teachers on a child's behavior tended to be poor.