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We have a nine year old daughter that is severely ADHD. She is on two kinds of medicine- morning and evening. She started her meds a few weeks ago. What are some of the ways you deal with the problems that happen with an ADHD child? Temper tamtrums, not listening, just plain moody sometimes. Since she started taking her medicine, she really has gotten better. We still have our problems though. She goes back in a few weeks for reevaluation. My husband and I are looking for a few tips to make things a little easier. We have two other children in the house as well-3 years and 10 months. Thanks for your answers.

Increase her exercise…chances are she’s pretty sedentary, right?

There are studies being done by some physician (saw it on the news so I don’t have a URL reference, sorry) and he has shown that increasing the exercise in children causes the brain to naturally produce the stimulant the brain needs (that the medicine is doing now) to get rid or greatly reduce the ADHD symptoms.

Kids now a days are stimulated mentally but not much physically, and this is the body’s way of letting you know there’s problems…according to this physician.

But, his studies may have merit…I am an adult with ADD, and I have started exercising again regularly, and do not need the ritalin now…I just started that on my own…my physician is impressed.

Good luck!

As in, they already had children without autism, then they have a child with autism. How do the parenting skills change?

Im 14 years old. I have a brother and he is autistic and he is 13. I know from seeing them all the time that autism can make the parents life so much more stressful (including mine). But, i know patience is a big thing that changes when they had my brother. My dad isnt very good with that but i know my mom sure is. I mean, my brother is pretty smart (above the average smartness level of autism), he can read, write, spell, and do math. I know that having an autistic brother changed me completely, without him, i totally would look at life so much differently. It makes me appreciate autistic people and mentally challenged people way more than i would if i didnt have my brother. Also, ive been thinking of becoming a special teacher. But yeah, back to topic [lol] parenting skills change by having A L O T more patience, and idk but its hard and i give anybody who has an autistic child [including my parents] alot of credit, it is alot harder than people think.

hope this helped

My hypothesis is: "If children have dyslexia, then they will have an inability to read words and learn." With a hypothesis such as this, how can I form steps for such an experiment? I need help! Please help me.

I would go to the library, and look up dyslexia/learning experiments in the psychology journals there. If you find one or two articles published in academic journals, they will describe how the experiments were conducted and you can base your model on that.

In general, psychology experiments involve the test subject group and the control group. You would have to define the age and characteristics, such as dyslexia, and how this was determined.

I imagine you would have 1-3 word lists of 5-20 words each, depending what age children or students you are testing. These words could be written on notecards or read on a recording. The children would either be shown the cards to read out loud, or would hear the words and write them down. There would be one part of the exercise where the words are presented with the right answers given, a second part where the subjects write or speak the words along with the answers being given at the same time, and the third part where they are tested for being able to read and/or write the words by themselves, based on the same cues as before, but without the answers given.

Then you could quantify the responses based on how many right and wrong or how long it takes the children to read or write them.

This is a very vague example, and could leave room for other learning issues besides the dyslexia affecting the outcomes. Technically, you would have to eliminate or isolate other possible factors, such as attention deficit or test anxiety, but you could show that dyslexia "interferes" or "correlates" with difficulty in learning. It could still be that the kids without dyslexia are taught independent study and practice skills, or the kids who test for dyslexia could have other issues instead of or besides dyslexia that are causing the learning difficulties.

I think a better way to control it would be to show kids’ learning ability before and after being shown ways of studying and practicing so they can learn words successfully. If you showed the low retention and recall when they were given words on their own, and then showed a sharp increase in performance when they were given special assistance to study and practice in between the initial run and the test run, that might still show that left to their own devices, the dyslexic students have difficulty in contrast to the true capability they have when given the means or assistance to study words and retain and recall them later.

You may have been told that chiropractors treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Well, that’s just not the case. Chiropractors don’t “treat” ADHD. But, chiropractic care can definitely help children, and adults too, who suffer from it. The reason why chiropractic treatment is effective is that ADHD is a neurological disorder. Chiropractic manipulations are not only effective in reducing nervous system disturbances in general, but an adjustment can be intentionally directed to stimulate under-active areas of the brain and calm over-active areas as well.

Because a chiropractic approach to ADHD is natural and drug-free, a large number of parents choose chiropractic care over the conventional medical practice of giving children Class 2 psychotropic drugs that have intense side effects including personality changes and permanent alterations in the brain. The vast majority of parents who’ve opted for chiropractic treatment for their children have noted marvelous behavioral changes as a result.

Due to the differences between the manner in which boys and girls use the two hemispheres of their brain, ADHD seems to occur in more boys than girls and, additionally, for the same reason is often more  easily observable in the behavior of boys than of girls. Some of the symptoms that are most prominent include difficulty concentrating and sitting still, lack of ability to control impulsive thoughts and behaviors, easily distracted by noises and activities, constant movement of fingers, hands, arms, feet, or legs.

Quite a few children who manifest ADHD symptoms are hypersensitive to certain foods, such as dairy or gluten products, and sugars and artificial sweeteners. Furthermore, they generally have a hypersensitive reaction to additives in foods, herbicides and pesticides used to grow non-organic fruits and vegetables, and laundry products such as detergents, fabric softeners, and other chemicals. Often, the removal of these environmental agencies can go a long way in reducing ADHD symptoms.

Checking for spinal anomalies and certain responses to specific neurological tests are part of the thorough examination offered by your chiropractor.

You may be able to assist your child in getting his or her life back in balance through natural, safe chiropractic care. Before taking drastic pharmaceutical measures, if your child displays the symptoms of ADHD, call your chiropractor to make an appointment for a complete evaluation. Call today for the health of your child!

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