RE: New TECHWR-L Poll - ADD

Subject: RE: New TECHWR-L Poll - ADD
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:52:41 -0400




>
> This topic made me curious about ADD, so I looked up some
statistics.
> Those numbers prompted more research, so here are the
> sobering stats on
> serious disorders and disabilities in this country:
>
> ADHD: 0.04%
> (http://www.add-adhd.org/ADHD_attention-deficit.html)
>

The figure of 3-4% was for the school-age population, Chris, not
"serious disorders and disabilities in this country."

Where did you get the other figures?

The figures for autism are for the UK, not "this country."

> Autism: 0.0071%
> (http://www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=299&a=3527)
>

I'm not going to those other pages, but I'm sure if I did, I'd find
more errors.

Bonnie Granat | www.GranatEdit.com
bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US



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