From leading ADHD authority Dr. Russell A. Barkley, this instructive program integrates information about ADHD with the experiences of adults from different walks of life who suffer from the disorder. Including interviews with these individuals, their family members, and the clinicians who treat them, the program addresses such important topics as…

The Freedom from Distractability Index (FFD) on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children- Third Edition (WISC-III) is an index score comprised of the sum of the scores on the Arithmetic and Digit Span subsets. Although the FFD is often interpreted as a measure of attention and concentration, there are a number of other possible explanations…

Discusses the diagnosis of hyperkinesis as a catch-all for problem children and the use of psychoactive drugs as a simplistic method of restraint. Also discusses the results of tests for brain dysfunction, mental ability, creativity, and mental health for drug and non-drug groups of children. (TO)

The attention controls of 30 learning disabled and 30 normal males (8-to 11-years-old) were tested by a vigilance task in which vigilance was defined as ability to detect infrequently occurring signals over a prolonged time period when signals were embedded in a background of regularly occurring events. (Author/GW)

A controlled outpatient study of 19 hyperactive boys (aged 4-10 years) of normal intelligence examined the effects of placebo and two different drugs on the boys' playroom behavior. (Author/NH)

Discusses the scope of due process that should be allowed by a school to a hyperactive child and its parents when determining what type of treatment will be given to that child. (JF)

Assigning an organic central nervous system disorder as the cause of most learning problems ignores the consideration of other factors such as emotional, intellectual or educational lacks. (A related article is EA 501 451.) (Author)

This study demonstrates that children who were identified as hyperkinetic" were absent from school more frequently, and did remarkably less well on standardized tests of school readiness than their peers rated nonhyperkinetic." Implications are discussed and suggestions made for the development of intervention programs. (Author/CJ)

Many children wrongly diagnosed as emotionally disturbed, actually have a faulty sense of perception, known as minimal cerebral disfunction. This article describes some typical symptoms, and discusses ways such children might be helped. (MG)