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A clinical neuropsychologist argues that treating normal developmental challenges as medical disorders often harms children more than it helps.
The expert contends that society's obsession with metrics and the push for diagnostic labels frequently pathologizes healthy behavior, undermining a child's ability to cope with difficulty.
In a composite case study, a tenth-grade student named Zach sought accommodations despite scoring 34 on practice ACT tests, a score that places him in the top percentile nationally.
Although a perfect score is 36, Zach viewed his performance as a failure because he aimed for the University of Pennsylvania.
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