I'm not sure of what is the question. Is "DD" Developmentally Disabled?
Recent Public Radio spotlight on Common practice Mis-Diagnosing adopted children with Mental Illnesses and medicating (Psychotropic Medications Alter and change brain "Function-Compensation-Resistance-Adaption-Change-Function", impacting cellular level brain changes in function effecting behavior and impacting current and future brain development that can not be un-done, or chemical modification, as the brain is Now FOREVER Psychotropic Medication substance dependent brain. The diagnosis may be wrong and behavior related to adolescence and the consequences of pharmaceutical chemical dependence does not ever go away. Doctors do not always have the right answers and our culture's reactionary need to rely on prescription medications to fix behavior is not the best choice for young children still growing.
when the core issues being an adopted child are commonly downplayed and overlooked.