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What is ADD?
ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder
is used to describe people who have long term difficulties which
include:
- Inattention: people who are easily
distracted, impatient with tasks, appear inattentive, are forgetful
and disorganized.
- Impulsiveness: people who have
a tendency to interrupt conversations, talk out of turn and have
difficulty waiting for their turn.
Many people can experience
some of these difficulties. Often these are temporary.
To use the label ADD, each
of the above difficulties must have been experienced by that person
before the age of seven and be present in moor than one setting,
and must have lasted for longer than six months.
AD(H)D, Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity)
Disorder, is used when a person is hyperactive in addition to
the difficulties above.
Hyperactive people are restless,
fidgety, continually on the go and are often noisey and talkative.
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