All About ADHD : Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

[swortionery]

I have ADHD too. One of its strengths, as I like to explain to my clients, is that it allows one to see order in chaos. Does that resonate with any of you?

[zac's mum]

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I have ADHD too. One of its strengths, as I like to explain to my clients, is that it allows one to see order in chaos. Does that resonate with any of you?

You may actually enjoy being an air traffic controller!

[Quizzer]

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This has been my bedtime reading last few weeks. Very interesting perspective. Seeing ADHD not as a disability but as a unique advantage in the way the always-buzzing brain works. Plenty of leaders capitalize on this (and their super high physical stamina & energy level) to brainstorm ideas & build startups. Then outsource the drudgery & paperwork aspect of the business to hirelings lol.

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Yes, I read this book to understand more about my boy's condition. This book provides very interesting perspective about ADHD rather than the usual symptoms , solutions , how to tackle ADHD kind of read out there.

[Quizzer]

Hi,

Any parents with ADHD kids studying in sec school ? Are your kids coping well in sec ? My boy will start his sec 1 next year and was on concerta from P5 mid year to psle last paper. Wish to hear more about kids coping in sec without the help of med. Thanks.

[necrominion]

seriously, its not worth it forcing ur child too much. I went through the entire academic gruel, undiagnosed with adhd-PI until I was an adult. My mum was scolding me and criticising me all the time, forcing me through my maths homework and scared that I would fail. This caused me to develop mental illnesses. Even my schoolmates who failed their o levels and those who went to normal academic stream are happy doing their own things, working at a company and thriving.

[patpatrol]

Hi,


Has anyone engaged child psychologist Dr Wilson Chan or used the Gifted Lab @ Balmoral Plaza for ADHD assessment or full cognitive test? Charges sound more reasonable than others but not sure the level of accuracy.

Does anyone have a child with ADD( day-dreamer type)? Would you be able to share your experience or get in touch with me? I think my DD is in this category and have been reading a lot on this and am very confused at the moment. Many of the posts here shared experiences with ADHD( with hyperactivity).

Appreciate your valuable input on the above. Thanks!

[sharonkhoo]

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Does anyone have a child with ADD( day-dreamer type)? Would you be able to share your experience or get in touch with me? I think my DD is in this category and have been reading a lot on this and am very confused at the moment.

My daughter! She's 23. What would you like to ask? She was diagnosed as Asperger's, but behaves like an ADD person, with other issues too.

[zac's mum]

Hi slmkhoo, I’m just wondering aloud…


I heard that there are special exam provisions for ADHD/ADD candidates, Eg. They may request for extra time, and/or an invigilator to regularly tap on their shoulder/exam paper to bring the candidate’s focus back to the exam paper.

Do u think these measures would have been helpful to your girl? Were they available during her time and did u consider using them?

[sharonkhoo]

zac's mum\" post_id=\"1965960\" time=\"1583474137\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=1965960 time=1583474137 user_id=53606]
Hi slmkhoo, I’m just wondering aloud...

I heard that there are special exam provisions for ADHD/ADD candidates, Eg. They may request for extra time, and/or an invigilator to regularly tap on their shoulder/exam paper to bring the candidate’s focus back to the exam paper.

Do u think these measures would have been helpful to your girl? Were they available during her time and did u consider using them?[/quote]

Before she took SPERS in 2013, I asked about what was available, and the response from MOE was bemusement. I asked about allowing her to use a keyboard to type rather than write (because of her dyspraxia), for someone to remind her to focus, and extra time. In the end, she was only offered extra time (20 mins extra for a 2.5-hr paper). No reason was given for not considering the other options, but my impression was that they had never had such requests before. Maybe there's greater awareness now?

She studied in MI, and the school offered to request for extra time for her A levels in 2016, but we decided against it in the end as we found that she didn't seem to need it. In fact, her problem was generally that she couldn't think of enough to fill the essays! That's probably because of her ASD rather than distraction or lack of focus. Also, A level papers are already 3 hrs long, and an extra 20-30 mins would make the paper so long that we felt it would be counter-productive. I did broach the keyboard issue again, but again, it seemed that no-one had ever heard of this before, and since she was coping OK, so I just dropped it.

As she got older, she seemed to be better able to focus, at least enough to cope with classes and exams. She doesn't do very well, but I think it's the ASD rather than lack of focus.

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slmkhoo\" post_id=\"1965945\" time=\"1583453261\" user_id=\"28674:

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Does anyone have a child with ADD( day-dreamer type)? Would you be able to share your experience or get in touch with me? I think my DD is in this category and have been reading a lot on this and am very confused at the moment.

My daughter! She's 23. What would you like to ask? She was diagnosed as Asperger's, but behaves like an ADD person, with other issues too.

What sort of tests did she do and you managed to find out her problem is Asperger’s?

My 7 year old DD now in P1 has very short attention span. Feedback from K2 teachers was that she needed to next to the teacher to complete simple writing exercises. Left alone she would drift off into her own world. At home she can’t do simple math work or copy simple sentences for more than 10 minutes. Copying 3 simple sentences is a big chore for her. Any task that requires concentration seems very torturous for her. When she has to learn something that appears difficult, she gives up easily and would throw tantrum and refuse to listen even when I try to teach her, esp. Math related. She can be quite random in writing answers on her school math worksheet (sometimes she writes whatever that comes to her head first rather than apply a simple skill she has supposedly learned or practiced before). She also has the habit of not reading the question/ instruction.

No sign of hyper activity. I suspect she may be ADD (day dreamer type, more common amongst girls) as described in some of the posts here .

I am not sure what to do? Should I send her for ADHD test? Is she too young to be tested? I used to see it as childhood immaturity and had been trying to discipline her and get her to form good habits (an extremely uphill task). If she is really ADD I will need to learn the strategies needed to deal her or send her too therapy??