Mr. Ken Kilbride:

We find the prime age for getting an ADHD diagnosis is from eight to 12. Primarily, what we find is the child is going into a social setting that is different from home and his or her behaviours in school are different from other children in the class. Usually, one of the persons to pick that out is the teacher. We do anything we can to get in front of teachers in that regard.

One of the things to bear in mind in respect of that age group is that boys are diagnosed four times more often than girls. There is still the perception that ADHD is about ten-year-old boys bouncing off the walls. ADHD is primarily genetic. It is 50% boys and 50% girls. It is very important not only to find the boys who have ADHD but the girls. We find girls are particularly good at social masking and social camouflaging as they go through those years, which causes anxiety and depression. Again, it is very important to educate teachers to know what ADHD is. As I said, the 5% prevalence rate means one child in every classroom. There will always be one child with ADHD in every teacher's classroom throughout that teacher's entire career. Teachers do not get support in colleges on how to support a child with ADHD-----