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Adolescence
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Symptoms of AD/HD must occur prior to age ___
What is seven years of age?
100
Less disruptive type of ADHD and more likely to be underdiagnosed
What is AD/HD predominately inattentive type?
100
Seizures, hearing problems, learning disabilities, anxiety, depression, or a sudden change in the child's life
What can cause ADHD-like behaviors?
100
First line treatment for the symptoms of AD/HD for decades
What is medication?
100
Age that can be particularly difficult for a child with ADHD
What are the teen years?
200
Gender that is most frequently identified with ADHD
What are males?
200
Fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat Leaves seat when remaining seated is expected Has difficulty playing quietly
What are symptoms of AD/HD predominately hyperactive-impulsive type?
200
Cigarettes and alcohol
What may increase the risk for ADHD when used during pregnancy?
200
A means of treating ADHD in children that involves helping the child and family to increase their understanding of ADHD and help the child to like and accept themselves despite their disorder.
What is psychotherapy?
200
Desire to be independent and try new and forbidden things
What contributes to the difficulty that adolescents with ADHD experience?
300
Minimum number of environments that must be significantly disrupted to be diagnosed with AD/HD
What is "at least two?"
300
A preschooler who is unable to sit in a group for fifteen minutes to listen to a story being read.
What is "normal" inattention?
300
True or false? Refined sugar causes ADHD or makes symptoms worse.
What is false.
300
System used to reward good behavior or work.
What is a token/point system?
300
True or False? ADHD symptoms will always remain the same for children as they grow up.
False ADHD symptoms may decline for some children as they grow up.
400
Person who is often the first to recognize that a child is hyperactive or inattentive
What is the teacher?
400
Consistently display behaviors associated with both ADD and ADHD
What is AD/HD - Combined type
400
Poor parenting
What is not a cause of AD/HD?
400
Limited strength, vitality and alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli and the limited alertness with respect to the educational environment,, due to chronic or acute health problems
What is the eligibility criteria for OHI?
400
Any learning technique that aids information retention. Aim Aims to translate information into a form that the human brain can retain better than its original form.
What is a mnemonic?
500
3 - 5% of school age children
What is the best current estimate of school age children diagnosed with AD/HD?
500
Type of AD/HD that is probably underdiagnosed in girls
What is ADD?
500
Brain matures in a normal pattern but is delayed, on average, by about 3 years. Delay is most pronounced in brain regions involved in thinking, paying attention, and planning. Outermost layer of the brain, the cortex, shows delayed maturation overall. A brain structure important for proper communications between the two halves of the brain shows an abnormal growth pattern.
How does ADHD develop in the brain?
500
5:1 to 8:1
What is the ratio of positive feedback to negative feedback recommended for students with ADHD?
500
Low self-esteem, frustration, impulsivity, and boredom seem to overshadow the cornerstone
What are secondary ADHD symptoms that are often more evident in adolescents