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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
INTRODUCTION
ADHD has generated enormous public concern for obvious reasons. Perhaps the most obvious one may be the number of school age children affected by the disorder. NIMH estimates that 2-5% or 2 million young children are diagnosed with ADHD. ... Individuals with ADHD have difficulty learning and staying focused on one task. The disorder causes some individuals to be easily distracted and or bored. ... At times a person affected by ADHD will not recognize that someone is talking to them because they are so wrapped up in thought.
ADHD interferes with an individual’s ability to regulate activity levels, creates behavioral problems and impedes the normal developmental process of learning. Parents, searching for answers to combat the disorder are driven by the fact that childhood is a limited period of time that is critical to the quality of development. A child’s future including the opportunity for success may be lost in the early years of life and therefore it is imperative that there is early diagnosis and treatment of the disorder.
What is ADHD?
ADHD is a mental disorder. It is the most extensively studied disorder of children. ... Scientific study of the disorder refers to a family of related chronic neurobiological disorders. The origin of ADHD is unknown. ... Studies conclude that ADHD runs in families, which suggest that the disorder may be inherited. Studies show that between 10 and 35 percent of children with ADHD have a close relative that had ADHD or is currently diagnosed with the disorder. One half of all parents who had ADHD have a child with the disorder.
ADHD is known to have two distinct symptoms and or characteristics: inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity that. Both problems do not always occur together however; each problem qualifies as a diagnosis of the disorder. The disorder may not be diagnosed until a child is in the early grades of elementary school.
Young children during preschool will often show symptoms of hyperactivity before the age of seven. ...
Children that are not diagnosed with ADHD will likewise display these symptoms. There is however a difference in the frequency of the symptoms of a child with ADHD for example; a child with the disorder will display the symptoms at home and at school while playing demonstrating abnormal child behavior. ... Children with the disorder can make life extremely difficult for their parents.
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