ADHD, Inattentive type: diagnosis and description

Makes careless mistakes, distracted..cannot listen... late with assignments

The child with inattentive ADHD does not give close attention to details, make careless mistakes, seem unusually distracted, untidy, or late with assignments.They have difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities When spoken to, they may not seem to listen. Teachers and parents often comment that "he cannot listen" or "is in his own little world." They have difficulty following through on instructions, as well as finishing schoolwork, homework and chores. Instead of doing the assigned task, they are often diverted to more interesting activities.
The child with inattentive ADHD does not give close attention to details, make careless mistakes, seem unusually distracted, untidy, or late with assignments.They have difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities When spoken to, they may not seem to listen. Teachers and parents often comment that "he cannot listen" or "is in his own little world." They have difficulty following through on instructions, as well as finishing schoolwork, homework and chores. Instead of doing the assigned task, they are often diverted to more interesting activities.

They have difficulty organising tasks and activities. They often arrive to class missing school assignments, pencils, books and other school materials, claiming to have forgotten or lost them. Because these behaviors are misunderstood as a skills deficit, parents and teachers often try to help by getting them "organizers", trying to teach orgaization skills and prompting them for the next task. This often makes things worse, not better.

Because their conditioned attentional avoidance, tasks that require sustained attentions require difficult, sustained volitional mental effort. Struggling to stay on task so much work for them that they try to avoid anything that they have to focus on for an extend period of time, such as chores, school work and homework. For them, it is easier to argue and make excuses for hours to avoid simple schoolwork and homework tasks which adults percieve as simple and should only take a few minutes to complete.

Academic subjects that require sustained attention, such as reading comprehension and math, are particularly vulnerable. Their struggles with these subjects is often misunderstood as a learning disability rather a sustained attention problem. Until attention is improved strategies to improve skills is seldom helpful.

Socially, they may appear withdrawn and dreamy, "in their own little world", depressed and inert or anxious. Though these behaviors may cause frustration and tension for the child and family, they usually don’t disrupt class or prompt parent-teacher conferences. Girls are more likely to present as inattentive type since they are less likely to want inconvenience to others. Thus, many ADHD inattentive type girls they go unidentified.




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Parents should give their children with ADHD an extra patience. They need your support and love, give them your 100% time and understanding.

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