Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities
Reply to "Treating ADHD without meds"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. I’m unsure of the degree to which he may have adhd. We were told by the pediatrician that she could prescribe him medication directly after evaluating the Vanderbilt forms and discussing options with us. No expensive outside diagnosis needed. I have seen my son be so beautifully focused on projects, like the 3-D car he is working on now. His teacher says he focuses beautifully when she works with him directly one on one and says he’s absolutely a bright kid. It’s when he’s in a group setting that he is disruptive and distracting other children, trying to be the class clown. He doesn’t listen to directions in school and gets distracted very easily. He doesn’t seem to hear when asked a question directly. We love our son so much and want the best for him. We’re just concerned about whether meds is the correct method, given that he can absolutely be focused.[/quote] This “focus” is “hyper focus” and it is actually a kind of focus that is very common to ADHD but it usually not something ADHD kids can produce on demand. In order to hyperfocus they either need external structure, novelty, interest, challenge or competition or urgency . But most of school does provide any of those things that are necessary for the ADHD kid to focus without meds. Please educate yourself more on ADHD - you seem to think that ADHD is a disease of “not being able to focus”, but it is really a disease of not being able to regulate ones interest and turn it on/off/up/down. It’s also a disease of executive dysfunction and emotional dysfegulation, both of which have negative social and academic/professional that can be lifelong (and which you are already noticing). ADDItude Magazine YouTube videos are very useful and backed by medical research. In particular Russell Barkley, Bill Hudson, and many other well known ADHD researchers provide good info. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics