Autumn, I don't disagree with your thoughts regarding over diagnosis/medication so much as I have learned not to assume that is what I am seeing when I have limited contact with an individual child. One of the first things I learned as the parent of a child with a disability is that all the great advice you get from professionals working with your child must be balanced against the fact that they see your kid in only one setting for a brief period of time. The parent lives with the child, and the consequences of the disability, 24-7. What the parents know and have seen may provide a very different picture of the child's performance and needs. Dr. Jane Jarrow