Inattentive type ADHD | ADHD Information

My daughter has ADHD with Inattentiveness and ODD as for assignments she is still in grade school and I think the teachers help her pack her bag.

Any of you with a child with inattentive type ADHD.....  What have you found that works well for your child??  Are there any meds that work well?  My son has been on Concerta and Adderall and is about to try Straterra.  He just can't concentrate in class, forgets to bring home and turn in assignments, and is soooo unorganized!  I went to his classroom the other day and we cleaned out his cubby and he had a birthday invitation for a party that was several weeks ago.  We thought he hadn't been invited!  It was just buried under his books.

Thanks, Stacey

You might want to try some time management skill strategies with him.  Give him a check list of things to do each day.  Have him check them off as he does them.  I'm sure his teacher will work with him at school with them.  Most ADHD children at some point need time management behavior management help.  I'm not saying he is behaving badly.  I'm just saying that he needs to learn how to manage his time better.  I'm adhd and it's hard at a younger age to learn it.  ADHD people learn things better if they can see it.  And if you have it on paper for him to see and check off, he will do much better.  I use a soft ware program called EasyChild, but you can just jot a list down and use that every day or week.  I hope this helps and keep me posted.

My dd has help in school with organization.  On her "go" folder (the one she brings assignments home in) they put a checklist on the front so she can remember what she is supposed to put in it.  I believe they also have a checklist on her desk for her to do.  She takes Ritalin LA.  I don't know if meds help her organizational skills or not.   We also have checklists here at home for her.  All her drawers are also labeled with the contents.

DH is also very inattentive--forgets things all the time, always late for everything, horribly disorganized, takes him forever to do a simple task.  I only found out it was probably ADD-I in the last year or so!  But somehow he did well in school and college as well as in the workplace.  Those are all very structured environments.  He's not on medication, but probably should be.  To sum up, ADD-I people need a lot of structure, timers, and reminders in order to function well.  HTH!

my daughter is an inattentive/impulsive ADD--she does well with a calendar that is by the week and filled out with what we have scheduled or what homework is due, and she does really well on a strict schedule. We also have had more luck on strattera to take the impulsiveness down a notch, but have recently added ritalin in the mornings during school to help the focus issue.