How a Child With ADHD Plays

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Brenda F. Dixon, the owner of Life Help Now in Nashville, Tennessee and we're here today with Expert Village. This topic of how to handle and what the symptoms are of ADHD will help you to understand a little bit more about what's going on at your house and you're not exactly sure how to deal with it. I want you to know that a hyperactive child that has ADHD cannot play quietly. They try to, the parents try to set a stage where the child will go up in its room and just sit there and play and they can't do it. They cannot sit quietly and play. They cannot organize things enough in their play area to sit still. So one of the things that you're going to notice with the child that has ADHD is they just are moving all the time. Another component of ADHD is they're very impulsive. This child will if its walking by a swimming pool, they may jump in the pool. You just don't know what a child that has ADHD might do. They might run out in the street, they might, you just don't know what they're going to do. So this is just going to help you understand a little bit more about ADHD and some of the characteristics of this particular disorder. ADHD, the child will fidget and move and wiggle and cannot play quietly. We'll continue talking about a little bit more of the symptoms so that you can identify it and understand it a little bit better."