process here in the uk is most probaly a lot diferant than there, daughter was refered to a dr (pdoc) bk around the age of 4, she was seen for a long time by this doc who eventually agreed to put her on meds there was no test, as adhd/add was quite new here in the uk, when son was born didnt notice anything he went to a playschool no problems but at the age of three he was accepted into the nursery section of the infants school, these are the same teachers that had allready seen both of the older girls go through, they contacted me and told me son was experincing dificulties and thought he might be adhd , there were no problems in playgroup but that was a smaller group

instead of going to local gp i went to daughters pdoc she did test on paper which i filled out questions and answers on a scale he scored high, he was medicated on a low dose of ritilin and it helped a lot at school he is now 17 and is on concerta