Predominantly inattentive ADHD (or someone may call inattentive ADHD) is usually called ADD which is stands for Attention Deficit Disorder. ADD is one of the three sub types of ADHD and this is the hardest type to recognize. While you can easily recognize the hyperactivity and impulsiveness symptoms in other subtypes, ADD children appear pretty normal even until 4th grade.
Recognizing Predominant Inattentive ADHD
It is very important to recognize predominant inattentive ADHD soon to provide the proper and in time treatments. If the child who has ADD and not recognized and treated, he may grow up with low self-esteem and have an underachieved life.
Proper Treatments Help Suffers Have Better Life
As mentioned above, you usually can recognize the problem with ADD kids when they go to school at 3rd or 4th grade, when they have to use a lot of brain power to solve the problems they have to solve in homework and school tasks. ADD kids usually find the reasons to not doing such task even when they are capable to do so. You can usually receive the report from school say that the kids “are easily to be distracted” or “not paying attention to what teachers say”. Along with such comments, poor studying results can be expected. If parents don’t know these are the symptoms of ADD, they can easily blame the kids for being “lazy” and other negative comments.
Treatment for Inattentive ADHD
There are two widely used treatments for predominant inattention ADHD as well as other subtypes of ADHD.
Medication treatment for ADD
Medication treatment has been proven to be effective on a lot of people, including kids and adults. Medication play an important role to help inattentive ADHD sufferers concentrate better on what they are doing and produce more work. As a result, parents can expected better school reports when the children using drugs. There are two main types of medications that used to manage the inattentiveness. They are stimulant and non-stimulant drugs. Generally, stimulants work better than the non-stimulant counterparts.
While medication can help most of the sufferers concentrate better on their works and produce more results, it should not be considered as a cure. The reason is when the person stop using medication, the problem will return. In addition, while using medications can do wonders for many people, there are still some people don’t react well to this treatment.
Behavioral therapy for inattentive ADHD
Different from medication treatment, the behavioral therapy can bring long lasting effects and many people can manage the ADD symptoms by using behavioral therapy only. There are two main sections of behavioral therapy including:
- Behavioral modification
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
The behavioral therapy involved in many systems including reward-punish system (use for behavioral modification) and systems that teach the sufferer how to organize tasks and deal with inattention. It can take a long time and a lot of efforts but this treatment work really well in the long term
Conclusion
While behavioral therapy alone can help children and adults manage predominantly inattention ADHD, doctors do recommend that applying both methods to bring the optimal effects. Please consult the pediatrician for the details of the treatment that will be applied.