My husband helped me through the tests they give for diagnosing ADD/ADHD in children. There are different tests for parents and for teachers to take. Since I am both to my daughter, I took both tests- one as a parent and one as a teacher. My daughter topped the charts on the inattent...
(They often co-exist, which is why it’s important when testing for one also to screen for the other.) That was the case with 7-year-old Allison Isidore of Montclair, New Jersey. Her mom, Liz Birge, had an opportunity to see her daughter at work in the classroom for 45 minutes ...
Children are not the only ones with ADHD. There are adults with add or adhd also. Some say that children tend to grow out of ADHD but I don't believe it. I think what happens is that when children become adults, some eat better and see improvements while others just forget about havin...
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“incidental Adenomas”. I am waiting two more weeks to have my low dose cortisol test performed. When I did the 24h urine to rule out pheochromocytoma , all was fine except plasma metanephrines which was slightly elevated and the doctor said there was a “near zero” chance of me having...
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have noted that the recent rise in ADHD diagnoses has coincided with an increased focus (particularly in American schools) on rigorous standardized testing and reduced playtime—suggesting that at least some children diagnosed with ADHD have been placed in environments that worsen the evolutionary ...
I have seen such improvements. I am thankful for the innovative ideas they have to help me. My other eye doctor said I didn’t need glasses and the testing, they also didn’t care about my dizziness, double vision, lack of concentration, and daily headaches. I look forward to continuing...
Conclusion 3: Many of these children seem to have a very high need for self-direction in education, and many "hyper focus" on tasks that interest them. A staff member who works at one of the Sudbury model schools emailed me this interesting comment about kids who had been d...
Originally developed for children with disruptive behavior disorders, most of these parenting programs do not address these specific causal processes in ADHD in their use of instrumental and stimulus control techniques. Insight into underlying deficits and causes of ADHD can inform which components of ou...