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Often it is observed that the child "cannot pay attention to the teacher" or that "it causes problems in the class". Between different reasons to explain this type of behavior there is one in particular that, for being relatively common, must be known by the parents. It is a question of the Disorder or Disorder of Deficit of Attention (DDA).
Although a child with DDA wants to be a good student, it tends to be impulsive and unable to pay attention owed in the class. The teachers, parents and partners know that the child is behaving badly, or that it is "different", but they do not know exactly what is what it walks badly. It is a situation that can affect 3 % of all the children. It is ten times more common in children that girls.
Often the DDA is accompanied of hyperactivity: the smallest children tend to run and to climb excessively; the biggest children are evident anxious and nervous. In contrast at the high level of activity that normally happens in the children, in this condition the hyperactivity is neglected, very little organized and she lacks goals or definite targets. A child who suffers from DDA, with or without hyperactivity, presents several of the following characteristics.:
- Make difficult on having organized his work, giving the impression of which he has not listened to the instructions.
- It relaxes with facility.
- His works are neglected, dirty and, for his impulsiveness, it commits errors.
- It interrupts the class often with comments or inappropriate performances.
- It has difficulty in waiting for his shift when it is in group activities.
- It does not continue the orders or instructions that are given him or the orders that are done to him.
- It is to him difficult to be supported playing the same time as his schoolmates of the same age.
Without the appropriate treatment, the child or girl will fall down progressively in permanent arrears in his school work. The relations with his partners and friends will suffer due to his absence of cooperation in the games and other social activities. His pride will turn out to be even more affected by the rejection of his friends and the repeated scoldings of main and familiar, after these do not understand how to handle his problem.
If a child presents problems of behavior like the described ones, the parents must ask his pediatrician or family doctor to recount a psychiatrist or infantile psychologist, who is the specialist most familiar with the Disorder of Deficit of Attention.
Sometimes, the use of medicines can be advisable, particularly if the DDA is accompanied by hyperactivity. The infantile psychiatrist can help parents, teachers and to the school authorities to find effective forms of education for these children with Disorder of Deficit of Attention.
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