Teachers and parents often jump to the wrong conclusion when a child is inattentive. They often think the child has ADDADHD. Parents may hear from the school that their child is continually inattentive in the classroom. Schools may actually say that they suspect your child has ADDADHD. Inattention in the classroom or at home may be due to ADDADHD nike roshe flyknit azules , but it may also be due to an auditory processing difficulty or a visual processing difficulty. There are many similarities between ADDADHD, auditory processing difficulties and visual processing difficulties. There are a variety of remedies for each of these difficulties. Comparing the behaviors and symptoms of ADDADHD, auditory processing difficulties and visual processing difficulties will help you identify which area(s) best describes your child锟絪 learning challenges. Once you have a better idea of what causes you child s inattention, you will be more able to help them. BehaviorsSymptoms of ADDADHD (Inattentive Type) include: 1. Has trouble with giving close attention to details or frequently makes careless mistakes. 2. Has trouble staying with a task or a play activity 3. Doesn t seem to be listening when spoken to directly. 4. Has a habit of not following instructions (written or auditory) and has poor follow through with both schoolwork and chores. 5. Has difficulty organizing homework, projects, desk, bedroom, as well as activities. 6. Appears unmotivated nike air max flyknit baratas , avoids, dislikes, or doesn t want to do things that take a lot of mental effort for a long periods of time such as chores, schoolwork or homework. 7. Due to disorganization, often loses things needed for tasks and activities (e.g. toys, school assignments, pencils, books nike flyknit lunar 3 baratas , or tools). 8. Is often easily distracted both at home and at school (This distraction is not specific to just at school). 9. Frequently forgetful in daily activities. BehaviorsSymptoms of Auditory Processing Difficulties include: 1.Has trouble paying attention to and remembering information presented orally (Audio tapes or stories read aloud, lectures) 2.Has problems carrying out multi step directions (In school: put your math book away, get your history book out and turn to page 35; at home: when you ask your child to do a list of chores brush your teeth, make your bed, get your backpack ready for school). 3.Has poor listening skills. 4.Needs more time to process information. (Takes to take a long time to respond to your questions.) 5.Has low academic performance. 6.Has behavior problems. 7.Has language difficulty (They confuse syllable sequences and have problems developing vocabulary and understanding language). 8. Has difficulty with reading, comprehension, spelling, and vocabulary. BehaviorsSymptoms of Visual Processing Difficulties include: 1.Makes careless mistakes. 2.Looks away from visual targets nike flyknit lunar 2 comprar , seems to be daydreaming. 3.Has sloppy handwriting. 4.Avoids reading, has reading fatigue, doesn t read pleasure books without being prodded to do so. 5.Skips lines or words while reading. 6.Has poor eye contact, doesn t seem to be paying attention because they are not giving you eye contact. 7.Has visual distractibility Inattention . 8.Missed social cues, frequently interrupts conversations. 9.Forgets what s been shown or has read. 10. Spacey , has a tendency to become lost or not know what s going on. 11.Is often forgetful in daily activities both at school and at home. 12.Has repeated spelling errors, different spellings for the same word. What Should a Parent Do With the similarities of ADDADHD, auditory processing nike free 4.0 flyknit españa , and visual processing behaviors and symptoms you can see why no one should jump to any one diagnosis. What needs to be done instead is to look at the whole picture. Thankfully, there are materials available to help a parent know what type of problem they are actually dealing with. You want to look for an assessment tool that you can use to get an indication of what the actual problem is before you jump to the conclusion that your child has ADDADHD. Once you ve done your homework as a parent, you will have a clearer picture of whether your child has an auditory or visual processing problem that may be considered a learning disability [depending on the severity of the problems] or ADDADHD. Your homework is to go through a variety of learning disability checklists that identify auditory and visual processing problems. By going through them, you will know whether to proceed with more formal testing and who you need to do the formal testing: an audiologist, a developmental optometrist, school psychologist, or a physician, etc. What Happens Often In the Classroom When your child has either an auditory processing or a visual processing problem nike free 3.0 flyknit baratas , what happens is that those processing systems aren t working as efficiently as they should be. Because of this inefficiency the processing systems are working harder than they should and they can get overloaded. When this happens, the system temporarily shuts down. In the classroom this can look like the student is not paying attention. Unfortunately, these children are often called out by their teachers for not paying attention. That happened with my son over and over. Everyone in the class would hear his name called out and they knew he wasn t paying attention. My son didn t understand that his visual processing system had shut down and that it really only needed about a 30 second break to regroup and it would be good to go again. Children don t realize what is happening. They may be staring out the window, playing in their desk, just drifting off. They don t automatically bring themselves back to the activity at hand. They are children. They don t even know when their system has shut down. They are usually unaware that they aren t paying attention any longer. What Else Can Be Easily Done Within the Classroom 1.Gently bring them back to the activity. This can be doAe Scars focu.