MAILED: Nov. 29, 2000 In an effort to determine school
professionals knowledge, attitudes and experience related to the
use of stimulant medication to treat attention deficit-
hyperactivity disorder, 10 students and four faculty members
from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire studied the
increasing use of psychoactive medications to treat children
with ADHD. Results of the year-long interdisciplinary research
study, which was funded by a grant from the National Conference
on Undergraduate Research/Lancy, were published in the September
Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly. During the summer
of 1999, researchers developed a survey instrument that asked
general education and special education teachers, school
psychologists, school nurses and speech and language
pathologists to provide information regarding their observation
of the rate of increase in medication use in their schools. The
questions also reflected their beliefs on the effects of
stimulant medications on students classroom achievement, be