... make some practical use of tools like hammer or saw, do routine household tasks, make minor purchases, or go about hometown ... well in all of the four areas of cognitive tasks. He also displays well-developed social adaptive functioning skills. At time of assessment, there were no major disruptive behaviors that may have had affected the testing situation. On the other hand, his reported acts of roaming around and going out of the classroom, not listening when spoken to, disturbing his classmates, failure to ... to Chretien and Persinger (2000), a tendency toward impulsivity would be an...

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... of average or above average intelligence" (Lamm 1). The children whom we are discussing are those who are sometimes thought to be unprogressive or otherwise not achieving as well as they should at their age level in school. They are usually average children who experience extreme difficulty in learning how to read or to do mathematical problems, or who have difficulty in handling a ... . Placing a label on this child is telling those around the child to treat him in a different way than other children. There is substantial research that teachers act differently toward children for whom t...

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... the nine months, the person has to show a certain number of the classic traits associated with the disorder. The EEG is used to record the amount of electrical activity that is happening in the brain. An MRI is an x-ray that shows the brain's anatomy however it is not a routine assessment. More recently, the way to diagnose ADD is the use of a PET SCAN, which measures the amount activity in the ... need to "apply themselves more" or "get their act together." Attention Deficit Disorder not only affects those afflicted in the classroom but at home as well. The rest of the family's daily ro...

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