"What Has Caused the Recent Increase of Dagnoses of ADHD in the United States?" Summary

In the article, "What Has Caused the Recent Increase of Diagnoses of ADHD in the United States?", the author is Aliza Jensen. Aliza Jensen is an English 1010 student, whom made this her topic for a final project. Aliza Jensen argues that multiple things have caused the increase of diagnoses of ADHD in the United States. She claims that the curious thing about ADHD is that the cases if diagnoses of ADHD have been steadily increasing since the 1970's. Jensen develops the claim by first investigating in what cases this has been discovered and experimented with. Jensen discovers something that states that diagnoses have increased 5.5% between 2003 and 2007. She claims that the website Centers for Disease Control and Prevention applies to her paper in several ways. Jensen develops this claim by first examining the site. Jensen connects the statistics about the increasing rate of ADHD diagnoses to her main question. Lastly, the author states that the third opinion of why ADHD is on the rise is the result of our failed public education system. Aliza Jensen's purpose is to educate people on how much the diagnoses of ADHD each year is increased in the United States in order to show people why it is so harmful to more and more of children and adolescents attention and behavior each year. This work is significant because it states how much the diagnoses have increased, what has caused their increase, and what times have had the highest increase. References:
Jensen, Aliza. What Has Caused the Recent Increase of Diagnoses of ADHD in the United States. (2011, Nov), [cited Oct. 5, 2012]