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Subject: Experience of children with Attention Deficit Disorder

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Mary

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Date Posted: 01:04:45 03/07/11 Mon

One of the young dyslexic children I assist has just been diagnosed with ADHD. At first my reaction to this diagnosis was to question it. Yes, sometimes he did not pay attention, but surely that was no more than any other young boy of his age. Yes, he did sometimes become distracted and his mind would wander to other things and yes, if you asked him to do something he would do half of it and not finish it before he 'ran off' to do something else...but again, wasn't all this just like any other young boy of his age? Wasn't he just being a typical boy? As for organization...yes, well his bedroom was something else. And yes, he sometimes did not seem to listen to what was said to him, but wasn't that just due to the hearing impairment he also has? Then I realised that I had actually just dismissed many of the symptoms of ADHD by putting them down as being something else. I had not really considered the possibility of ADHD symptoms being present in varying degrees, i.e. not being very pronounced.
He is now on medication, and I can already see a change in him. He is much calmer, less excitable, and I can now see that I had overlooked many things which the specialist had obviously picked up. Its worth checking a child for ADHD, then, even if symptoms do not seem to be very marked.

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