Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is usually children who attend kindergarten to primary school have obvious attention undisciplined, over-active, not gregarious, unpopular, vulnerable students boycott, impulsive behavior and emotional ups and downs ﹏

Characteristics of over-active 

Clinical psychologist noted that the ADHD children, a half of these cases can be found in them before 4 years old. Although around 2 year old child usually "can’t sit still," "very distracted potential", but with something of their own interest, can have a more sustained focus, but the hyperactive children were not even interested in what they have and they can not concentrate at all. When others talk to them, they seems to be absent-minded, very few eye contact with people. Usually when children are interested in listening to the story, but may not so with the over-active children.

Around two-year-old children are usually distracted by the impact of foreign objects. For instance, if playing with a toy and see a new toy, their attention will be diverted, but if so, then 3 or 4 years old and parents will have to pay attention. Hyperactive children are very forgetful in daily life. After the sweeping movements such as bathing dress itself, but because he suddenly attracted by other things and forget the daily process, not dressed and ran out, because these children are very impulsive, one would immediately have a response to any stimulus.

Hyperactive children have low concentration ability, this is due to physiological factors, the reasons for divergent views, there is said to be genetic influence. Hyperactivity disorder in recent years, more and more, because the mother was suspected of working pressure during pregnancy, when she was nervous, the blood vessels narrow, as well as reduce nutrient transport to the fetus, thereby affecting brain development, but this says not yet been confirmed.

Factors affecting concentration

Things that are lead to a weak ability concentration for baby, and three kinds of capacity incompetent relevant, but not necessarily three kinds of capacity problems at the same time may just be one of the following problems:

[Vision] can not deal with visual images, to see things can not stay in my mind, the image will forget to watch over.

[Hearing] on the sounds are too sensitive or very sensitive, too sensitive to be heard a certain sound is immediately distracted; if very sensitive, you can not hear others talk to him.

[Action] the small muscles interact with large muscles, and some children will be clumsy, awkward hop performed, when copying words from the blackboard, although they could see things on the blackboard, the visual received message, but the message was not passed on to the hand muscles, resulting in unable for transcription.

How to treat "hyperactivity disorder"?

1. Behavior modification and skills training

2. Drug treatment

3. Parents and teachers advices

the information contained in this article are for reference only not intended to provide diagnosis and treatment of any professional advice