Katherine Ellison

The Op-Ed Project Contributor

Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer-prize-winning former foreign correspondent and author of four books, most recently, “Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention,” which tells the story of a year in which she spent trying to figure out how to repair her relationship with her 12-year-old son. Both Ellison and her son have been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Needed: A guide for the perplexed ADHD parent

Despite constant claims that ADHD is overdiagnosed, the more serious problem is that so many kids never get help, writes Katherine Ellison.

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