{"id":179,"date":"2002-07-05T09:31:53","date_gmt":"2002-07-05T09:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=179"},"modified":"2002-07-05T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2002-07-05T09:31:53","slug":"i-find-this-statistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"I find this statistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A25998-2002Jul4.html\">this statistic <\/a>hard to fathom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of every dozen U.S. children and teenagers &#8212; 5.2 million &#8212; has a physical or mental disability, according to new figures from the 2000 Census that reflect sharp growth in the nation&#8217;s young handicapped population over the past decade.  <\/p>\n<p>Some reasons for the rise can be quantified. But it is difficult to know precisely how much is attributable to an increase in certain conditions and how much is explained by greater recognition, changing definitions or more willingness to report a handicap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  I think <b>this sentence<\/b> may be the key:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The definition of disability has broadened to include conditions such as attention deficit disorder, which decades ago was often not even recognized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Between the public schools and the drug companies pushing methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta, Metadate, etc.), I&#8217;d bet that kids labeled ADD\/ADHD account for a huge percentage of any recent increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this statistic hard to fathom: One of every dozen U.S. children and teenagers &#8212; 5.2 million &#8212; has a physical or mental disability, according to new figures from the 2000 Census that reflect sharp growth in the nation&#8217;s young handicapped population over the past decade. Some reasons for the rise can be quantified. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}