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| Child with Attention Issues |
Overview
The inability to pay attention is gaining rapid interest in
the medical and psychology field because of the increase in people who suffer
from this problem. Research has shown
in the past two decades there has been a significant increase of children who
have been diagnosed with attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
and attention-deficit disorder (ADD).
Children who are affected by this disorder tend to struggle with paying
attention in school, doing homework and chores, and other tasks that require a
certain amount of focus and concentration in a given amount of time. Their relationships may also be affected
because people do not understand why they have such a difficult time completing
tasks.
Symptoms that may indicate attention issues
Sometime as a parent it may be difficult to know if your
child is struggling because children in general are active, curious, and
excited about life. The key to knowing if your child may have attention issues
is if he or she cannot focus and calm down when they know they need to get a
certain task done. Here are a list of
specific symptoms that may also indicate a problem.
-Difficult paying attention to details and often producing
messy work.
-Easily distracted by irrelevant stimuli that others
typically ignore.
-Inability to sustain attention on tasks.
-Difficulty following through and finishing tasks.
-Frequent shifts from one uncompleted task to another.
-Procrastination
-Forgetfulness in daily activities such as turning in assignments.
-Disorganization
-Impulsive decision-making.
The cause of attention issues
The inability to pay attention is not a result of laziness
or low intelligence, the problem actually stems from the way a person’s brain
is wired. Researchers have shown through brain image studies that people who
have ADHD or ADD have decreased activity in their frontal lobes compared to
people who can focus and complete tasks with little difficulty. The frontal
lobes are the part of the brain that controls executive functioning skills such
as organizing, focusing, problem solving, short-term memory, impulse control,
and attention. Because the brain is under stimulated in that area it has a
difficult executing these skills.
How neurofeedback can help attention issues
Neuroeedback is a non-medication approach that works
directly with the brain to retrain the frontal lobes. To do this, the brain is
observed from moment to moment through an EEG and receives feedback from a
computerized game or scene when it responds in the desired manner that promotes
positive behavior. Continual reinforcement will eventually lead the brain to
self regulation of executive functioning skills.
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All accessed July 23, 2011
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