Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a developmental disorder usually diagnosed in childhood or adolescence. It is the most common presenting disorder seen in children's mental health settings. Symptoms begin in infancy and sometimes continue into adulthood. The symptoms are frequent and severe enough to have a negative impact on people's lives at home, at school, at their jobs, and within their communities. Symptoms include hyperactivity, impulsivity and distractibility.

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a neurologically based developmental disorder usually diagnosed in childhood or adolescence.
  

  Although there are no definitive medical tests to diagnose ADHD, a tremendous amount of research supports the suggestion that ADHD is neurologically based. It is a developmental disorder because it interferes with the normal rate of development in specific areas.

• It is the most common disorder seen in children's mental health settings.
  

  It is the most prevalent of all childhood psychiatric disorders, accounting for about 35% of all children who are referred to mental health clinics.

• Symptoms begin in infancy and sometimes continue into adulthood.
  

  Problems are apparent before the age of seven. Even when the disorder is not recognized until later (frequently in the early grades of elementary school), the characteristics can be identified, retrospectively, as having been evident since early childhood.

• The symptoms are frequent and severe enough to have a negative impact on the lives of those experiencing them. The impact is felt at home, at school, on the job, and within the community.
  

  Characteristics of ADHD are normal behavioral characteristics and everyone experiences some variety of them. However, it is the frequency and severity of these symptoms that leads to a diagnosis of ADHD. Symptoms are evident in most situations (school, home, neighborhood etc,), and they have a negative impact on the individual. This negative impact affects academic progress, social skills development and later on the job performance.

 

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