Is Your Child a Pain, Restless and Impulsive? Your Complete Guide to the Symptoms of ADHD!
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Is Your Child a Pain, Restless and Impulsive? Your Complete Guide to the Symptoms of ADHD!
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In order to determine if you should get your child help for ADHD, it is crucial to know the signs and symptoms. Getting your kid the help he may need can literally change his life and, indeed, your life as well! So take heed.
There are 3 subtypes of ADHD:
1. Predominant hyperactive and impulsive behavior. This is when most of your child’s symptoms are in the hyperactivity and impulsiveness category.
2. Predominantly inattentive behavior. This is when the majority of his symptoms are characterized by simply by inattention; hyperactivity and impulsiveness are not dominant, although they may still be present to a degree.
Children in this subtype are not as likely to overtly misbehave, act-out or have problems getting along with other kids. Even though they may sit quietly, they are not focusing or attending to what they are doing. Unfortunately, this type of child often may be overlooked; you and his teachers may not even notice that he or she has important signs of ADHD.
3. Hyperactive-impulsive and inattentive subtypes combined. Most children have this type of ADHD. In this subtype, many symptoms of both inattentive behavior and hyperactivity-impulsiveness exist simultaneously.
While there is no cure, treatment can relieve many of your child’s symptoms. When treated, most ADHD patients can be successful academically and lead productive lives. Researchers are developing better treatments on an ongoing basis by using new neuro-scientific tools such as brain imaging, to better understand it.
Specifically, what are the symptoms of childhood ADHD?
Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity are central to ADHD. Of course, normal children tend to be inattentive, hyperactive, and impulsive sometimes, but ADHD kids, display these behaviors much more severely and frequently. To be officially diagnosed with ADHD, your child must have been displaying symptoms for 6 or more months and to an extent that is more severe than his or her peers.
Children who have symptoms, specifically of the inattention subtype are:
- easily distracted, forget details, lose things, and often change arbitrarily from one task to another
- Having difficulty concentrating on one specific task
- Bored with a task in just a few minutes, unless they are doing something particularly enjoyable to them
- Having difficulty focusing sufficiently in order to organize, complete a task or learn something new
- Impaired in completing or turning in homework because of frequently losing or forgetting things that are needed to complete their tasks or assignments
- Distracted or inattentive when spoken to
- Daydreamers, become easily confused and frequently move more slowly than is required to complete a task
- Frustrated when required to process information as quickly and accurately as their peers
* Frustrated when required to follow instructions.
On the other hand, children who have symptoms of hyperactivity or impulsiveness may:
- Fidget and squirm when seated
- Chatter nonstop
- Dart around incessantly, touching or playing with anything in sight
- Be frustrated when required to sit still during dinner or at school
- Appear to be constantly moving
- Have difficulty being quiet while engaged in tasks or activities.
Children who display symptoms of impulsiveness may:
- Be very restless or impatient
- Blurt out comments inappropriately, unabashedly exhibit their emotions and behave with no regard for the consequences that may follow
- Exhibit frustration and impatience while waiting for things they want or their turns in various activities or games
- Frequently interrupt others’ conversations or activities.
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