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There is no doubt that learning, attention and behavioural difficulties have been around for an awful long time. The problem has been that the labelling of the issue has been dreadfully unreliable. Some children have tended to be diagnosed according to the focus and skill sets of the professional providing the diagnosis. If that professional is more tuned to the concept of ADHD, as they are in America, then the child will often receive that label. In the UK, the same children could be more likely to be labelled as having dyslexia.

We now know that the overlap between ADHD, dyslexia and other learning or behavioural difficulties like dyspraxia and Asperger’s Syndrome is huge and, in fact, they are all part of one spectrum. Thus, the whole subject of labelling needs a complete rethink for two reasons: first, labelling is unreliable and, second, we have come to regard labels like ‘dyslexia’ and ‘ADHD’ as having negative connotations. In fact, these conditions usually, but not always, hide a bright person whose intellect is waiting to be released.

As is always the case, when things get a bit medical I seek help from Dr Roy Rutherford, the Medical Director for Dore Achievement Centres, to explain them. So, for most of the following section, he must take credit.