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Does ADHD medication improve your reading?


I took the WISC test and said I was low on reading skills 10th grade reader and I graduated high school. Will medications help me improve?

I was diagnosed with ADD when I was young. I believe I still have it. Sorry for leaving out this bit.

Well, I live in a different country, but from what I understand the "WISC" Is used to test current student鈥檚 ability, and test if you still remember the things you learnt in high school? Well, if you graduated there is no need to test what you already passed =)
Truth be told, when i saw that acronym 鈥淲ISC鈥?I remembered a news article about diagnosing ADHD.
Yes, it鈥檚 true. You my friend have recently been a lab rat in an experiment.

Below is a snippet from Wikipedia about 鈥淲ISC鈥?and its uses in diagnosing learning disorders. Thank you wiki!

The WISC is used not only as an intelligence test, but as a clinical tool. Many practitioners use it to diagnose attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and learning disabilities, for example. This is usually done through a process called pattern analysis, in which the various subtests' scores are compared to one another (ipsative scoring) and clusters of unusually low scores in relation to the others are searched for. David Wechsler himself suggested this in 1958.
However, the research does not show this to be a very effective way to diagnosis ADHD or learning disabilities. The vast majority of ADHD children do not display certain subscores substantially below others, and many children who display such patterns do not have ADHD. Other patterns for children with learning disabilities show a similar lack of usefulness of the WISC as a diagnostic tool.

ADHD medication make you focus...
so if you couldn't sit still during the test and that's why you did so poorly, then yes the medication would help you.

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