My 5yr old daughter has been "un-officially" diagnosed with ADHD... which means that the Dr tells us that she definitely shows alot of the signs of having ADHD (hyperactivity, inability to concentrate on more than one tasks, etc). My husband was diagnosed (by the same Dr) with ADD (not ADHD) when he was 8yo so the Dr knows the family history.
My daughter is pretty advanced, intellectually, for her age (I think it comes with the ADHD) but can not complete even one simple task without me following her every move. If I tell her to put a shirt in her dresser she will walk upstairs with the shirt and make barely make it to the top of the steps before she is distracted by something, anything (a crack in the ceiling, a lint ball on the rug, a laundry basket... anything). If my daughter is instructed to clean her room it will take her literally all week to clean it because she gets distracted so often.
Any ideas on how to help her adjust to her disorder??
2007-07-28
12:10:08
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