This book also begins with the idea that problems cannot be cured most be effectively managed, and effective management comes about through understanding those problems. To help your hyperactive child succeed, it is essential to understand your child's behavior, see the world through your child's eyes, and make the distinction between behavior that results from lack of ability and behavior from deliberate noncompliance.

Over the past hundred years, problems characteristic of hyperactive have been categorized and labeled many different ways. At various times in the twentieth century, these children have been referred to as having the fidgeties, a de defect in moral control, minimal brain dysfunction, postencephalitic disorder, mini

Once these children with slightly higher lead exposure and slightly lower IQ have been discovered, should they be treated for lead poisoning? No, the treatment would be too dangerous given the small difference in learning. The effort to prevent lead related learning and behavior problems has focused on environmental sources of exposure, including lead in the air from gasoline, and lead in water pipes.

"I didn't think it would hurt" or "I forgot" are common ways a hyperactive child explains his/her behavior. But why does a hyperactive child behave that way? There are two other types of answers. To provide them, we will first look at such causes of hyperactivity as brain injury, epilepsy, medication, diet, lead poisoning, and heredity. Then we will try to understand hyperactive behavior as the result of brain activity.

4. Difficulty with Rewards: Hyperactive children have difficulty working toward long-term goals. They require repeated short-term payoffs rather than a single long-term reward. Some researchers have suggested that rewards may be ineffective in changing the behavior of hyperactive children and have described this behavior as a motivational deficit. While biological or temperamental explanations for difficulty with rewards certainly make sense, there is also a learned component to this problem- what psychologists call negative reinforcement.

Many different dietary substances have been suspected of causing or worsening hyperactivity, and as an extension of this, many claims have been that one or another dietary change will produce dramatic improvements. Different groups advocate different dietary regimens to control hyperactivity while others believe that no dietary approach can improve behavior.

For the hyperactive child, daily life is a series of challenges brought about by a number of specific skill deficiencies or weaknesses.

1. Inattention and Distractibility: Hyperactive children have difficulty concentrating on tasks and paying attention consistently compared with their peers. The more boring, uninteresting or repetitive the task, the more difficulty encountered. Attention, however, is a complex process consisting of different skills. These include the ability to focus the attention appropriately at any given moment, to begin an assigned task, to sustain attention long enough for tasks completion, and to be vigilant already to respond during group activities.

It is also unfair to say that an inattentive child can never pay attention, an impulsive child can never plan an action, or a restless child can never sit still. Hyperactivity is best described as the cause of problems that result from inconsistency rather than inability. Hyperactivity results in inconsistent performance. This pattern creates frequent frustration.

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