ADD Similarities
“These are examples of how ADD presents with uniquely different behaviors in a given child. Although different, each behavior is caused by the same type of brain dysregulation. By the way, not every case that presents with symptoms like these three examples is ADD. There are many other disorders that must be ruled out before.. read more →
Hypoactive ADD can be helped.
“Linda was the stereotype of the ADD child with hypoactivity. She sat in class daydreaming and doodled on her notebook paper. She would draw little cartoon characters and have them say funny things. Some cartoons were very clever, but the notepaper was devoid of classroom notes. Linda was sweet, polite, and pretty; she was also.. read more →
ADD: Incognito
“Gerald was an easy diagnosis compared to Karl, a fourteen-year-old truant. He was in trouble with school officials for fighting, had a brush with the law for petty vandalism, and was a chronic marijuana smoker. He was the classic skinny little tough guy, yet no one considered him ADD. As it turns out, he used.. read more →
ADD: Over-Stimulation and Overload
“A normally functioning brain selects what to pay attention to and it takes an event of a certain magnitude to get it to change focus. If a non-ADD person is in the restaurant and a door slams, they may be slightly distracted but they do not necessarily lose their focus. The person with ADD can.. read more →
ADD’s Different Faces
THE DIFFERENT FACES OF ADD BEHAVIOR “As you can see, ADD can present in many different ways even though the primary problem is inadequate arousal level. Because ADD looks different from one person to the next, some people do not think ADD is a disorder, a real and often devastating disorder, and one that.. read more →
ADD’s Different Faces
THE DIFFERENT FACES OF ADD BEHAVIOR “As you can see, ADD can present in many different ways even though the primary problem is inadequate arousal level. Because ADD looks different from one person to the next, some people do not think ADD is a disorder, a real and often devastating disorder, and one that.. read more →
ADD, Attention, Electronic Devices
” Arousal is the basic problem with ADD, but attention may play a major role in the person’s dysfunction. If a child cannot attend, boredom is a chief complaint. Remember, boredom is always a result of inattention. An individual with good attentional skills can spend a long time examining a leaf; someone with poor attentional.. read more →
ADD Attention-Focus Challenged
“Focus is the SPOTLIGHT that allows us the ability to pick our one object, task, or thought and work on it to the exclusion of other things. This is attention. People with ADD not only lack an adequate level of arousal but they often cannot focus on one specific task. This in part is arousal.. read more →
ADD: Arousal and Attention
“THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AROUSAL AND ATTENTION: Arousal and attention have a unique relationship. They are not the same but they are dependent on each other. Arousal is the level of intensity, how bright or dim the light is, whereas attention is how focused the light is. Compare an ordinary hundred-watt bulb to a hundred-watt.. read more →
Inside an ADD Head
“If you would like a glimpse of what it is like to have ADD, just imagine someone walking into your room in the middle of the night, waking you from a sound sleep, and asking you to balance your checkbook. It is not that you do not have the intellect to do the task; you.. read more →