Posts Tagged ‘ADHD’

  • How Is ADHD Diagnosed In Children
    The key to the diagnosis of ADHD in children is the comprehensive assessment of the child suffering from ADHD. However, only a medical professional who have taken proper training should do the diagnosis. It is recommended that this professional should be a child or adolescent psychiatrist or a pediatrician who has the knowledge of ADHD. This is because this is not a simple diagnosis wherein a test will detect the presence of ADHD, rather a physical and mental assessment of a child that needs to be done carefully in detail to get the most accurate information about the child’s behavior. A specialist will obtain the necessary information from the child’ parents and school reports. Questions to the Parents A specialist will ask certain questions regarding your child. Listed below are the topics on which parents will be questioned. Child’s  [...]
    Posted at November 25th, 2009
  • How To Maintain Family Relationships Despite ADHD
    Children with ADHD often react without thinking, tend to be defiant, attempt to damage things, and seem to not heeding to what is being said. They do feel disturbed after hurting or damaging, but again repeat the same behavior. Further, these children often scatter things here and there and remain unclean. This is mostly intolerable for most of the people outside home, such as neighbors, pupils, and teachers; but if your child is lucky enough, some may be have an understanding nature. Do you know that ADHD can further affect your relationship with other members of the family, relatives, and friends? Yes, it is a fact! If these people close to you are not willing to take your child as he/she is and deal accordingly, this can strain your relationships with them and also with your own child having ADHD. Not only your child becomes away  [...]
    Posted at November 23rd, 2009