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Labeling Defiant Kids Lincoln, R.I., March 4, 2003 (CBS) Christopher Dufault looks like your all-American second grader. But to his mother Christine, the 8-year-old is part boy and part monster. Every day a simple task turns into all out war. 'He's broken windows and doors,' she told CBS News Correspondent Mika Brzezinski. 'And he's so strong, I can't control this 8-year-old.' Christopher's been diagnosed with a psychiatric condition called Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Right alongside ADD and ADHD -- 'ODD' is part of the alphabet soup of labels stamped on 1 in 25 schoolchildren. What does it mean? ODD kids simply defy authority. It's a consistent pattern of negative, hostile, defiant, disobedient behavior and it interferes with functioning. But others disagree. 'I think it's a fraud,' said Ellen Gabor, a retired teacher. She says what ODD interferes with is teaching. 'It's an attempt to hang a medical term on students who refuse to behave themselves,' she said...
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