Owning up to complexity: a sociocultural orientation to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Seminars in Speech and Language
Jack S DamicoMartin J Ball

Abstract

To enrich our conception of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), it is necessary to take a wider orientation to this disability category than has been advocated traditionally. Over the past decade, there has been an emerging conception of ADHD from a sociocultural perspective, and this orientation, when linked to the traditional biomedical perspective, provides a more accurate and authentic construct of ADHD. In this article, we advocate that speech-language pathologists approach ADHD with a mindset that is open to the complexities of context-bound human functioning at all levels. Four sources of data demonstrating the richness of the sociocultural orientation are presented and clinical implications are detailed

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Apr 17, 2008·Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics·Jack S DamicoJennifer Scott

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