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“CHADD played a strong role in the 1997 reauthorization of IDEA and the Department of Education's 1999 regulations, as well as in the passage of the Mental Health Parity Amendment in 1996.”On the matter of the “1991 Department of Education Policy Clarification Memorandum” mentioned above, I found this interesting comment in “ADHD – Politics, Money, or Science?”, an article written by Shane Ellison, who’s a medicinal chemist “committed to raising health awareness by exposing the shocking and sometimes-frightening truth behind FDA approved drugs, sports supplements, and natural medicine”.
“Jon Rappaport, writing for Stratiawire.com, shows that in 1991, federal rules were adopted which granted US schools $400 for each child diagnosed with ADHD. Furthermore, in 1991, the US Dept. of Education issued a formal recognition of ADHD as a debilitating condition and ordered state education departments to screen students and give ADHD cases special treatment. Guaranteed, if the govt. offered increased funding for every redheaded student, your student teachers would soon be convincing you that Johnny has red hair, not brown.”
So, apparently a division of opinion about the benefits or otherwise of the Memorandum!
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