Black Children, Especially Males, Face Alarming Gap in ADHD Diagnoses

Black children face disparity in ADHD diagnoses with a 60% lower likelihood of diagnosis.

As a kid, Wesley Jackson Wade should have been set up to succeed. His father was a novelist and corporate sales director and his mother was a special education teacher. But Wade said he struggled through school even though he was an exceptional writer and communicator. He played the class clown when he wasn’t feeling challenged. He got in trouble for talking back to teachers. And, the now 40-year…

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