| Every child has trouble listening or sitting still at one time | | | | when asked to sit still or may get out of their seat and |
| or another during their childhood, but for some children | | | | run, walk, jump, or climb at inappropriate times. |
| these problems interfere with their daily lives. When a | | | | Inattentiveness and lack of concentration are also |
| child has hyperactive behavior, is inattentive, and has | | | | classic symptoms of ADD. Children with ADD usually |
| trouble focusing so severely that it negatively affect | | | | daydream more than other children their age and have |
| their lives the child may be diagnosed with ADD or | | | | a hard time listening to parents and teachers. They are |
| attention deficit disorder. | | | | not able to listen for very long before they loose |
| If your child has these symptoms and you think your | | | | interest. They also lack concentration and often start |
| child has ADD there are some tell-tale ways to discern | | | | tasks without finishing them or moving from one task |
| if your child has the disorder. Not all children have the | | | | to another very quickly. The lack of concentration |
| same symptoms but the results of the symptoms will | | | | makes it hard for children with ADD to do homework, |
| determine if your child has ADD. | | | | tasks at school, and tasks around the home and |
| Hyperactivity is one classic symptom that children with | | | | interfere with their life. |
| ADD have and when it is present the diagnosis is | | | | A child who occasionally displays these symptoms |
| often for ADHD or attention deficit hyperactivity | | | | does not necessarily have ADD. Usually a diagnosis of |
| disorder. Children with ADHD are in constant motion | | | | ADD is made because these symptoms have been |
| and cannot sit still for an amount of time normally able | | | | present for at least six months and are severe |
| by their peers. They squirm and fidget uncontrollably | | | | enough to interfere with daily life. |