Slow Cognitive Tempo- A Dangerous New Diagnosis?
Here's a great way for the makers of stimulants to expand their market. Daydreamers
beware! Perhaps we could have snapped creative thinkers like Thoreau, Einstien,
Edison, and Plato out of their reverie so they could have gotten to work in a real
job.
This might really help the schools push up their standardized test scores. I think
it would make more sense to teach the out-of-synch child to tune in and engage
through motivation, instruction, healthy life-style, and practice than artificially
jump start their nervous system creating as a by-product external locus of control
and an increase in anxiety disorders which already reportedly affect 1 in 8 American
children. To see more about the Sluggish Cognitive Diagnosis movement, go here:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/conceptual-revolution/201404/danger-frightening-new-mental-illness