Australia: Kids hospitalised for illiteracy: report Could this happen in the US?
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Monday December 6, 05:17 AM
Kids hospitalised for illiteracy: report
A federal government inquiry has found that children's clinics in hospitals across the country are being swamped with patients whose only problem is their inability to read.
The head of the government's inquiry into reading, Ken Rowe, said hospital psychology clinics were straining to cope with children seeking medical attention for problems caused by their failure to learn at school.
"Hospitals are complaining that their clinics are being filled with kids who are being referred for things like (ADHD)," he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
"But once the paediatricians sort out the children's literacy problems the behaviour problems disappear."
What was essentially an education issue had become a health issue, he said.
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