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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RedTailHawk]DD is 8 and has some developmental challenges including slow processing speed.  I've noticed several postings recently suggesting slow processing speed is an indicator for getting checked for attention deficit.  She isn't hyper active and I don't think she is overly distracted but she does have a big problem with getting hung up on things like poorly laid out worksheets and poorly written questions where it isn't immediately clear what she is supposed to do.  I have been attributing this to her anxiety and problems with rigid thinking.  When I googled attention deficit inattentive I got [url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943531/[/url] and the final sentence, "characterized by poor cognitive interference control and slow processing or output speed" is pretty descriptive of DD.

[i]What sort of professional diagnoses attention deficit?[/i]Is this something the psychologist that worked with her for psycho-educational testing could do?  Slow processing speed is mentioned in the psycho-educational report done last year but there is no mention of attention problems.  I don't think we mentioned "cognitive interference control" as a concern but maybe we should have.

I don't know that we'd do anything different if she had the diagnosis but I hear attention deficit a lot in association with schools and her school *really* doesn't "get" her so maybe it would help if she had a diagnosis they are more familiar with.

TIA[/quote]

This is my DS - he is 12.  was diagnosed when he was 6.  Essentially his ADHD/Inattentive means that he has quite a few LDs related to ADHD like his processing speed, executive functioning and working memory.    So he's not what we would think of in the classic sense when you hear ADHD.  He's not at all hyper. He's more lethargic if anything. Its a challenge OP and if you don't stay on top of it your child can easily fall behind in school. [/quote]

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