How can I tell if my child has ADHD? In the child counseling clinic, we often receive parents of elementary school students who complain that their children are smart and lively, but they can’t get good grades in school. He never pays attention to lectures, is easily disturbed by external things, is like a motor in a machine, and keeps moving, loses his homework, and makes too many careless mistakes. The child’s action behavior is easily impulsive, often regardless of the occasion, regardless of the consequences and big temper, capricious. These children may have ADHD and need parents’ attention. Your child is more likely to have ADHD if he or she has the following attention deficit, hyperactivity, and impulsivity: 1. too much activity, non-stop; 2. excitement, impulsiveness; 3. disturbing other children; 4. often fidgeting; 5. doing things without finishing; 6. demands must be met immediately, otherwise easily discouraged; 7. emotional instability, rapid changes; 8. easily angry, shouting; 9. attending Learning or activity attention is not sustained; 10, often forget homework or daily activities schedule. It is important to go to the hospital promptly if you encounter the above condition. Why do children with ADHD have learning difficulties? Most children with ADHD have a normal level of intelligence, but are unable to grasp the knowledge taught by the teacher due to persistent hyperactivity, attention deficit, and impulsivity, which is the main cause of learning difficulties. Some children have reduced comprehension and understanding, and some also have visual-auditory conversion disorder, spatial location perception disorder and left-right discrimination disorder, resulting in difficulties in reading, comprehension, writing and calculation, such as reading and writing, often reading or writing “6” as ” 9″, read or write “b” as “d”, write “part” as “accompany “etc. This has a serious impact on academic performance. The dangers of ADHD in children should not be underestimated, but it is important not to label a normal, active child as ADHD. The diagnosis of ADHD requires detailed history questioning, physical examination, psychological assessment such as intelligence tests, attention measurement) and related items to confirm the diagnosis; in addition, a comprehensive approach of behavior correction and family therapy and medication should be taken in the treatment of ADHD. Treatment requires the participation of the child, parents, physicians, and teachers. How does ADHD occur? There are several possible reasons for the occurrence of ADHD in children: some of them have family genetic factors, and children with family members who had ADHD as children have a higher chance of developing ADHD. In addition, some children have a mild brain injury as a child, and others are neurologically immature, and as the child grows up, the brain matures and the ADHD gradually disappears. Of course, there are some family environment, education, some industrial pollution, such as lead poisoning, and children lack of trace elements, such as iron and zinc deficiency, excessive consumption of food additives, etc. can aggravate children’s attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder symptoms. Children with ADHD should be carefully searched for the cause.