At 09:19 AM Thursday 5/4/2006, PAT MATHEWS wrote:
I noticed a trend in the comments on ADD.
Someone is specifically said to have
"inattentive ADD" which is not the same as ADHD.
Another poster starts referring to it (anyway)
as ADHD. Then we start getting recommendations
for books addressing ADHD but not the inattentive sort.
Inattentive ADDers may be hunting and exploring,
but not in the way those books suggest. In
stead, the hunting and exploring goes on inside
the head of the inattentive ADDer. I cannot
emphasize this enough. "Daydreaming" is the
old-fashioned term. Allow the daydreamer to get
those fantasies out - on paper, in words or
drawings, or in music or drama or whatever, and
you've reached her. »»» Offer her the chance at
physical activity and on-the-spot decision
making and you've played right into her weaknesses.«««
Bin there dun that Pat
If you don't mind an ignorant question, "Why?"
(WRT the emphasized stmt.) The "old-school
traditional approach" would think that getting
her to do something as ordered and teaching her
to make proper decisions would be better than indulging her daydreams.
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been
added to our country and two words have been
added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that
is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
(Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.)
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