You simply enter the date, time, and task that needs doing, and the computer automatically sends you a heads-up chime or an e-mail at the appropriate time. These programs are much clearer than handwritten to-do lists.
Then I tried ADHD organization tools: calendar/task-management software, of the sort that comes with Internet-based e-mail accounts, such as Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail, as well as in programs like Microsoft Outlook and Entourage. Even on ADHD “superstar days,” when I’d get 50 things done, I would always miss an important item or two-and feel that I had wasted the day. I would forget to add some tasks to the lists, while listing others more than once. My daily to-do lists used to read like the stream-of-consciousness scribblings of a deranged novelist, lots of words with little structure.
The important thing is that a child who has a real problem paying attention, even without the other symptoms that tend to result in more disruptive or problematic behavior, still needs to be understood and to get help.Do you have a hard time getting things done? Many of my clients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do. We want to make sure that people understand that kids who aren’t fidgeting or running out of class can still have really significant brain-based difficulties and related ADHD symptoms. We get this question all the time: “I don’t think my kid has hyperactive/impulsive symptoms-could he still have ADHD?” Yes, he can! And it’s especially crucial that kids with prominent inattentive symptoms of ADHD are still evaluated by a trained clinician, as these children could be more likely to be overlooked at school. The bottom line is that the diagnosis of ADHD can still apply even if a child doesn’t have hyperactive or impulsive behaviors. There are also adjustments to reflect new research on how ADHD symptoms present in adolescence or adulthood. We still use the same clusters of symptoms (inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive), we just don’t consider them separate types. The newest way of thinking about ADHD is actually to get rid of types altogether and just think about which symptoms present prominently. But it was never meant to be used that way, and continuing to use an almost 30-year-old term is getting more confusing. Some people use it to refer to inattentive type ADHD - without the hyperactivity. Kids who had all three symptoms were called combined type.Ī lot of people still use the old term ADD, either out of habit or because it’s a more familiar term than ADHD. Kids who were only hyperactive and impulsive were hyperactive/impulsive type. Children who only had the inattentive symptoms were called inattentive type. But starting in the early 1990s, that child would be diagnosed with ADHD.įrom the early ’90s until recently diagnosis included one of three types. It was called ADD up until 1987, when the word “hyperactivity” was added to the name.īefore that, say in 1980, a child would be diagnosed with ADD, either with or without hyperactivity. ADD, or attention-deficit disorder, is an old term, now out of date, for the disorder we call ADHD, or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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