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Attention Deficet Dis (A.D.D) and how its viewed by society

Attention Deficit Dis (A .D .D ) and how it 's viewed by society

Attention Deficit Dis is another developmental dis that results in academic difficulties . It is characterized by inattention impulsivity , and hyperactivity . These symptoms generally appear in most situations , such as at school , home , and with friends , but in some instances they may appear in only one of the situations . The symptoms are usually worse when sustained attention is required , for example during lessons at school . About 3 of children have attention deficit dis , and it is six to nine times

more common among boys than among girls . The dis generally persists throughout childhood , and in many cases , some signs of it continue in adulthood . The symptoms of ADD are lack of attention , people who easily decides on something without proper scrutinizing of the situation , and hyperactivity . There are certain types of ADD and these are the Combined Type ADHD , Predominantly hyperactive-impulsive type ADHD and Predominantly inattentive type ADHD Symptoms of ADHD if not treated early will get worse and these includes depression and the most common is how it greatly affects the school performance of the child involved . People in the society believes that having ADHD is hereditary that if your family blood lines have this dis then there is great chances that the generations of the present will likely be affected , and also they perceived that when during pregnancy , when the mother always drinks alcohol and do smoke then these will

also affect or contribute to the development of this developmental dis . Examples of some the Attention Deficit Dis and now being called as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Dis are as follows

Johnny would not go to sleep . Instead , he spent most of the night tearing around the house . When he was tall enough to unhook the screen door , he began to explore the neighborhood , and his frantic parents once found him wandering down the middle of the street in his diapers . On another occasion , he turned in the clothes dryer and climbed inside . At the age of 2 , he was expelled from nursery school

One year old Hugh had to be strapped into his high chair , but still he managed to fall over the side . When he began to talk , the words came out so fast no one could understand him . He was a mass of bruises from bumping into anything that stood in his frenetic path . By the time he was 7 , he had dislocate thumb , broken his wrist , and fractured his collarbone twice

Steven was the terror of the neighborhood . Once , he went after the boy next door with a golf club . Another time , he tried to strangle a little girl with a jump rope . By the age of 9 , he had been expelled from three schools and his mother thought he was going crazy

The children in the above examples manifest behavior of having attention deficit dis . In DSM III this syndrome is categorized as a specific

Developmental dis called attention deficit dis . Extremely...

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