Attention Difficulties
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a frightening-sounding label. Though more recently defined and less frequently detected than dyslexia, its implications for a person’s life long learning can be very far-reaching.
One definition for Attention Deficit Disorder is:
‘developmentally inappropriate inattention and impulsivity with and without hyperactivity.’
Yet ADD has many positive features too. People with ADD are often naturally inquisitive, good multi-taskers, can be quick-witted, visionary, good lateral thinkers and/or courageous when it comes to taking risks. These characteristics can be powerful assets in many walks of life.
In order to fully understand ADD, it is necessary to understand the very particular way that a person with ADD will perceive the real world through the “filter” of the ADD thinking style. As a result, people with ADD will often have incomplete mastery of important life concepts such as consequence, time, sequence and order. Many of the behavioural issues that some people with ADD display can be traced back to the effect of the “ADD filter”.
Sadly, many ADD treatment programmes offer a suppressive approach, seeing the condition as a disease or disorder requiring prescriptive treatment. Some advocate the use of powerful psycho-active drugs and stimulants. The risk here is that positive attributes of the ADD thinking style may be eliminated or impaired along with those traits which have been deemed undesirable
Offering a drug-free approach, the Davis Attention Mastery® Programme enables people with ADD to master fully the concepts needed for successful interaction with other people, the physical universe, and the process of learning. It also addresses the nature of responsibility and how to “sell” to people with ADD the desire to take charge of their own destiny.
Please contact the DDFA if you would like more information on AD(H)D and the Davis methods.