How does ADHD affect children and what
can be done to help them?

This eBook reviews in detail the various aspects of children with ADHD through an analysis of their drawings. Since drawings are influenced directly by the brain's neurochemistry, we may learn from them about the child's functioning in various aspects - By analyzing them, you can identify children's temperament and emotional background, including all behavioral implications.

This e-book includes drawings which illustrate every aspect in detail. For example: Emotional and developmental difficulties, Educational setting that is stressful for the child and ADHD characteristics like: difficulty concentrating and restlessness.

ADHD is characterized by multiple symptoms that most parents will immediately recognize in their child's behavior.

For example, are you aware of the following difficulties experienced by children and adolescents, and even by adults?

•    Difficulty doing homework and preparing for exams
•    Low grades due to lack of attention to detail
•    Misplacing, forgetting and losing belongings
•    Difficulty concentrating as expected of schoolchildren: 45 minutes in class
•    Talkativeness
•    Difficulty with routine activities (such as preparing to go to school)
•    Impatience, restlessness, inability to sit still and listen
•    Tendency to pick up fights with other children
•    Dreaminess, absentmindedness
•    Difficulty spending time alone ("I'm bored!")

ADHD (attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder) is a neurobehavioral developmental disorder common among children nowadays, affecting about 5% of children globally. The characteristics listed above are some of the phenomena parents to children with ADHD report based on their daily routine.

Drawings and handwriting samples of children with ADHD can help you complete the picture and understand the following:

Whether your child has ADHD – Did you know that Mozart and Einstein are considered to have had ADD? If so, despite of the disorder's negative effects, it may bring be beneficial, or at least non-detrimental in the long run…In addition to conventional assessment methods, drawings may serve as an effective tool for determining whether your child has ADHD, even at the tender age when symptoms begin to appear.   

Your child's difficulties as reflected in his drawings and handwriting – Every child with ADHD has a unique symptomatology affected by his genetic, social and emotional makeup. Analyzing your child's drawings will enable you to identify the precise characteristics of your child's disorder, because his drawings include elements typical of his unique personality.

How do these difficulties affect your child's self-esteem and social confidence? ADHD is still considered as a disorder rather than a natural phenomenon. Due to this diagnostic approach, and possibly also to your child's innate personality, his self esteem and social confidence may suffer. Drawings enable you to identify the child's emotional status and how the disorder affects his social life.

What can be done to help your child cope? Following your analysis of the child's drawings, you will gain an understanding of the exact steps you need to take in order to cope with his difficulties. Our eBook is full of ideas and solutions on how to help a parent to a child with ADHD. These comprehensive solutions are behavioral, cognitive and educational, and are based on years of experience counseling families with children with ADHD, as well as academic studies in this field.

What did you have to say about this e-book?
"Thank you, Roshida, for this fascinating e-book. The attention deficit area is not new, but this is the first time I came across a text relating it to children's drawings. The examples are particularly insightful and instructive."