Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD):  Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 5% of children in the United States have ADHD.  That means that roughly 2.7 million children in grades k-12 have a diagnosis of ADHD in the United States.  It is known that 11.5% of all k-12 students receive special education nationally.  In 2004 the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) reported that 37% of the special education population had ADHD.  How are these children being supported educationally?

How to sight it:

• careless mistakes/lack of attention to details
• lack of sustained attention
• poor listening
• poor organization
• losing things
• easily distracted

What we can do to help:

At Brain Learning simply knowing that a child has ADHD is not enough.  We need to carefully identify what type of attention problems the child has (e.g., shifting, sustaining, focused, divided, etc.). We believe that knowing your child’s unique strengths and weakness will lead to proper educational treatment. In reviewing the literature on educational research and governmental guidelines and recommendations there continues to be an absence of the “teaching of skills” to children with ADHD. In every corner of the literature there are plenty of examples of how to “accommodate” the child with ADHD, but very little in the way of remediation of executive skills.