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What is ADHD?

What is ADHD?. http://education.uregina.ca/technology/StudentSamples/ADHDPresentation/. Imagine living in a fast-moving kaleidoscope, where sounds, images, and thoughts are constantly shifting. Feeling easily bored, yet helpless to keep your mind on tasks you need to complete.

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What is ADHD?

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  1. What is ADHD? http://education.uregina.ca/technology/StudentSamples/ADHDPresentation/

  2. Imagine living in a fast-moving kaleidoscope, where sounds, images, and thoughts are constantly shifting. Feeling easily bored, yet helpless to keep your mind on tasks you need to complete.

  3. Distracted by unimportant sights and sounds, your mind drives you from one thought or activity to the next. Perhaps you are so wrapped up in a collage of thoughts and images that you don’t notice when someone speaks to you. • ~This is what it is like to have ADHD~ Www.nimh.nih.gov

  4. Who is most likely to be diagnosed with ADHD? • ADHD is 5 to 7 times more common in boys than in girls

  5. ADHD runs in families – if a family member is diagnosed with ADHD other family members have a higher chance of being diagnosed with ADHD

  6. Three Types of ADHD • Type 1 – Predominantly inattentive (ADHD-I) which was previously called Attention Deficit Disorder without hyperactivity (ADD) • Type 2 – Predominantly hyperactive/impulsive (ADHD-HI) • Type 3– A combinationof type 1and type 2(ADHD-C)

  7. Diagnosis of ADHD • To be diagnosed with ADHD a person must show 6 or more symptoms of either subtype • The symptoms must have lasted at least 6 months or more • The symptoms must have a negative effect on the person’s development

  8. Children with ADHD-I • Have difficulty paying attention • Have difficulty with selective or focused attention • Have difficulty focusing on the relevant stimulus in the environment…

  9. May have difficulty with cognitive processing speed • May be sluggish, lethargic, or apathetic

  10. Children with ADHD-C Have difficulty paying attention • Have difficulty sustaining attention to the appropriate stimulus in the environment

  11. Children with ADHD-HI • Seem to always be in motion • Can’t sit still • Tend to fidget • May have difficulty staying with one activity/task for a long period of time

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