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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Growing out of a neurological disorder is news to me. Perhaps, what you mean is[/b], are the impacts of the side effects less noticeable as the kid gets older? If that's the case, then yes, a kid can learn to adapt without medication and with the help of therapies be better capable of managing themselves. It doesn't work for every ADHD child. In K the school principal told me in DS's IEP meeting that he firmly believed that DS (diagnosed with ADHD-combined) would never be a success without medication. By the end of K, DS was on grade level in all areas, except one, where he was advanced. DS is in 5 grade and most people that interact with him don't know that he has ADHD. He is not on medication. We chose to change his diet and his environment, and add all the therapies that he needed to be a success. He's on grade level in all areas. In the future, if DS decides that life and school has gotten to hard to manage because of ADHD, then we will revisit putting him on medication.[/quote]

No, some kids literally grow out of it.

Read the link posted by PP on page 1 about  Dr. Shaw's work.  My son is one of the cohort that Dr. Shaw's team has been following from childhood to (now) young adulthood.  The study that my son is enrolled in is an imaging study, which has shown that there are characteristic population-level differences in the structure of the brains of kids with ADHD versus kids without.  Note that these aren't diagnostic level differences that you can look at and say "That kid has ADHD", but rather the average size of structures for the population of ADHD kids is significantly different than the average size of those structures in non-ADHD kids.

When Dr. Shaw explained it to me, what I understood him to say happens with the subgroup of kids who "grow out of it" (i.e. they are able to discontinue medication and their average scores on diagnostic tests move toward the non-ADHD population average) is that the structure of their brains changes over time to more closely resemble the non-ADHD population.   He explained that for some kids it's a timing issue --- some structures in their brains develop more slowly than the non-ADHD population, but they eventually catch up.  For another large cohort, this never happens.

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