Empowering Children Who Learn Differently in Pakistan
WE’RE ALL FAMILIAR with that distracted, uninterested fellow who just did not sit still in school. He was annoyingly chatty and quite often failed his examinations. We presumed him clueless, lacking the desire to study. In Pakistan, many of these children leave school at an early age. Some become entrepreneurs. Others continue the traditional educational…
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Children and Teens in Southeast Asia Have ADHD, Too By Roby Marcou, MD FOR THE PAST TWENTY-FOUR YEARS I worked as a developmental behavioral pediatrician throughout Asia, based out of Indonesia and then Singapore. My patient population included children and teens from every corner of the world–children attending local schools in Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines,…
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