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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a neurological disorder that is most common in childhood that can continue through adolescence and adulthood. It affects whether one can stay focus, concentrated, sit still or paying attention. When children or adults is suffering from ADHD, they may have problem focusing on specific task or activities and they have the potential to action impulsively which, may resulted into trouble. These are due to part of their brains that control attention and activity are having differences.
People with ADHD will also have trouble controlling their behavior that it affects their emotions and how well they do in school or other areas of their lives. In fact, ADHD is often viewed as a learning disorder because it can interfere so much with a person's ability to study and learn.
ADHD are broken into 3 types namely, inattentive type, hyperactive-impulsive type and a combined type.
Child that is of the inattentive type will have the symptoms of forgetfulness in daily activities or misplace of things, easily distracted, difficulty following instructions or with sustained attention in tasks / play activities, apparent listening problems, and dislike / avoid tasks that need mental effort.
For child that are hyperactive-impulsive, you will notice symptoms like difficulty waiting for a turn or in line, excessive talking / running / climbing, cannot play quietly, fidgeting / squirming and always seem to be “on the move”.
Most children have the combined type of ADHD which, is combined hyperactive-impulsive and inattention. Six or more symptoms of inattention and six or more symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity are present.
Although ADHD begins in childhood, sometimes it's not diagnosed until a person is a teen — and occasionally not even until someone reaches adulthood.
In summary, some of the signs of ADHD are as follow:
* has difficulty paying attention or staying focused on a task or activity
* has problems finishing assignments at school or home and jumps from one
activity to another
* has trouble focusing on instructions and difficulty following through
* loses or forgets things such as homework
* is easily distracted, even when doing something fun
* has problems paying close attention to details or makes careless mistakes
* has trouble organizing tasks and activities
* has difficulty waiting one's turn
* interrupts or intrudes on other people
* blurts out answers before questions have been completed
* fidgets with hands or feet or squirms about when seated
* feels restless
* talks excessively and has trouble engaging in activities quietly
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