All About ADHD : Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

[Snow24]

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How is ADHD diagnosed?

Is taking ADHD medicine the only way to help child to focus better.

[Snow24]

Hi


How is ADHD diagnosed?

Is taking ADHD medicine the only way to help child to focus better.

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Snow24:

Hi


How is ADHD diagnosed?

Is taking ADHD medicine the only way to help child to focus better.

You can send your child for a psych assessment at KKH or IMH to get a professional opinion

[Snow24]

Hi


ADHD is assessed by psychologist?

Do doctor just based on the ADHD questionnaire to diagnose as ADHD?

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Snow24:

Hi


ADHD is assessed by psychologist?

Do doctor just based on the ADHD questionnaire to diagnose as ADHD?

Yes to the first question. For the second, it's typically not a questionnaire, but a battery of psychometric tests done to assess the child's mental and behavioural traits.

[Snow24]

Hi


Anyone can share the strategies you used, at home to manage your adhd child or how to help him to be organise, do his homework etc

[xueyan]

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I suspect that my 9 yo boy may have ADD. These are the symptoms that make me draw this possibility :

- For both Chinese and English comprehension, he doesn’t read the passage properly to answer the questions. All the while he doesn’t like to read. At the rare times when he read, he doesn’t like to read mystery books. I think it is because he doesn’t like to think about the mystery. Anything that he feels difficult, he will give up.

- His Maths is no good. For problem sums, he gives up easily.

- He is very careless in all his work. Be it copy from the helping words, he can copy wrongly.

- He is absent minded. He loses a lot of water bottles in school. This year he lost 3 already.

- His handwriting is awful

However, I did not hear from his piano teacher that he has learning difficulties. He is very interested in playing badminton and will keep bugging us to play with him to practice his strokes.

Any advise or comment is appreciated

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xueyan:

Hi


I suspect that my 9 yo boy may have ADD. These are the symptoms that make me draw this possibility :

- For both Chinese and English comprehension, he doesn't read the passage properly to answer the questions. All the while he doesn't like to read. At the rare times when he read, he doesn't like to read mystery books. I think it is because he doesn't like to think about the mystery. Anything that he feels difficult, he will give up.

- His Maths is no good. For problem sums, he gives up easily.

- He is very careless in all his work. Be it copy from the helping words, he can copy wrongly.

- He is absent minded. He loses a lot of water bottles in school. This year he lost 3 already.

- His handwriting is awful

However, I did not hear from his piano teacher that he has learning difficulties. He is very interested in playing badminton and will keep bugging us to play with him to practice his strokes.

Any advise or comment is appreciated

My advice is to get a psych assessment done for him at IMH or KKH, then work on it from there. Educational therapy or behavioural therapy (esp. Applied Behaviour Analysis programmes) works well in such cases.

Full disclosure: I'm currently running http://swordsandstationery.com, an educational therapy programme that places emphasis on behavioural management, so do let me know if you're keen on such a thing.

[Snow24]

Beside Ritalin is there any other strategies or methods to help adhd child with inattention in class and organising his daily life/work.


Is it true that child with inattention doesn’t outgrow unlike hyperactivity.

[sharonkhoo]

Snow24:

Beside Ritalin is there any other strategies or methods to help adhd child with inattention in class and organising his daily life/work.


Is it true that child with inattention doesn't outgrow unlike hyperactivity.

Even hyperactivity is not \"outgrown\", I think, they just learn better self-control as they grow, and eventually, they select jobs where that trait doesn't matter so much. For inattention, they can adopt self-help strategies, but that also needs time to because they usually have to be older and more self-motivated in order to adopt those strategies.

Parents can help by helping the child increase attention little by little at home, and imposing structure and organisation habits on a daily basis.