Some Basic Facts
What Is It?
- a neurobehavioral disorder that affects 3-5 percent of all American children
- It interferes with a person's ability to stay on a task and to exercise age-appropriate inhibition
-cognitive or both behavioral and cognitive
Warning Signs/Symptoms
- Failure to listen to instructions
- Inability to organize oneself and school work
- Fidgety
- Talking too much
- Leaving chores, homework, and projects unfinished
- Difficulty paying attention and responding to details
Different Types
- Inattentive subtype
- Hyperactive-impulsive subtype
- A combined subtype
3 comments:
I am researching attention deficit disorder as well and it is interesting to see all of the symptoms because I feel like many of the symptoms apply to me as an individual. I think it is a very intriguing topic
Rachel,
Good beginning. Look at my blog and see how I have added links to videos as well as interesting stuff on the web about the brain.
Experiment with loading various stuff on your blog.
How about a survey to class members and then show the results on your blog?
Mrs. Sander
Hey everyone, just so you know I did my Psych Project on Scrapblog, so hopefully it uploaded successfully to blogger and you can view it by clicking on the play button. :)
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