I recently received the following email from a reader of this blog:

I am just wondering if I am wasting my time, my son has been diagnosed adhd for about 4 years now, I think its more but we havent gotten there yet. He is in regular classes but is also in resource at school, he also had to be held back a grade due to his problems the first year being diagnosed. Would he possibly qualify at all for disability benefits.

Jonathan Ginsberg's response: In order to win a child disability case, you will need to show that your child meets a Listing.  The Listings for children are different than the Listings for adults.  You can review the childhood disability listings by clicking on the link.

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Ii just got custody of my nephew from cps and he has been in residential treatment centers in fort worth, we had him tested thru the school system and discovered that he is emotional disturbed and has adhd and boplar disorder2 and also has obsessive defiant disorder we also learned that we had to put him in special education classes because of an issue that he was acting out inappropriately in class(taking his clothes off in front of the other students in the class) The school system suggested that we try to apply for benefits. He is only five years old.
–Felicia

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