What Are the Common Causes of a Short Attention Span?

Inattention, often referred to as attention deficit.

Inattention

Inattention, often referred to as attention deficit.

It is normal for children to be easily distracted before the age of five. Parents can exercise their children's attention through scientific methods so that children can focus on doing something.

Inattention

Inattention is manifested in the following: class can't concentrate on lectures, and is easily distracted by environmental interference. Change your attention frequently. When you do your homework, you ca nt concentrate on it. Parents describe it as careless and careless. They are not attentive to the parents instructions. There is no beginning or end of things, often half-way or endless. Doing homework dragging, constantly interrupted for reasons such as drinking water, eating, urinating, etc., the homework time is significantly prolonged. Some children manifested as gazing at one place, staring, dazed, and looking at the teacher, but they didn't know what to think. Teachers often don't know what they ask. Children's inattention is one of the main manifestations of ADHD.

Attention child

Attention disorders in children are mainly manifested in abnormalities such as concentration, stability and selectivity. Normal children pay different attentions at different ages and gradually become older as they get older. Generally speaking, the concentration time is 10-12 minutes at the age of 2 to 3 years, 12 to 15 minutes at the age of 5 to 6 years, 20 minutes at the age of 7 to 10 years, 25 minutes at the age of 10 to 12 years, and more than 30 minutes at the age of 12 years. . Children with ADHD are less focused than the above range. Therefore, it is difficult for them to maintain attention for a long period of time to engage in an activity. They can not persist after listening to each class for 5-10 minutes. Assigned tasks. It may take longer to do things that interest you.

Attention classification

Inattention is often divided into: visual attention disorder and auditory attention disorder. Different individuals have different sensitivities to different stimuli. Some children are unfocused when receiving visual stimuli, some children are unfocused when receiving auditory stimuli, and other children are unfocused by both visual and auditory stimuli. When you have visual impairment, you do nt like reading, and you are careless and error-prone. When there is a hearing impairment, the class is particularly unfocused. Usually, people seem to listen to him, but he even feels that his ears are problematic. Therefore, it is difficult for these children to obey instructions to complete tasks, even when adults continue to issue language commands before starting to perform tasks.

Inattention to judge

Everyone has a time to get lost, but how can we tell if a child is suffering from "inattention"? Under what circumstances should we seek the help or treatment of a doctor? Pediatric experts believe that: judging whether a child has not paying attention, there are the following aspects that need to be quantified for reference diagnosis. Each of the following nine articles has four levels of never, occasionally, often, frequently to evaluate the child s attention Force situation.

Tip: Please carefully evaluate your child's behavior in the past 6 months.

1. Can't pay close attention to details, often mistakes caused by carelessness

2. Difficulty maintaining attention while studying for work or activities

3 When you talk to it, you are absent-minded, and you seem to listen.

4 Difficulty in completing or organizing tasks and tasks without following instructions (not because they cannot understand instructions)

5. Difficult to complete or organize tasks and activities

6. Avoidance, dislike, or reluctance to participate in tasks or activities that require sustained energy

7. Lost items needed for homework or activities, such as toys, workbooks, pencils or textbooks

8. Distracted by sound or other external stimuli

9. Forgetting daily activities ^[1]

Harm from inattention

1. The concentration time is shorter than other children, and it is easy to be distracted;

2. Unrealistic answers, unable to describe the ins and outs of things;

3. As the content of the schoolwork has been raised to a considerable level, it is not possible to keep up with the learning progress, and the grades gradually decline;

4. It is difficult to concentrate during the lesson and have a faint understanding of the content of the lesson. Procrastination of homework, easy distraction during learning, daze, attracted by irrelevant things, leading to time-consuming and inefficient learning;

5. Even if you read the book well before the exam, you will not remember or write wrongly because of distraction during the exam, which will seriously affect your study and exam results;

6, always lose things when doing things, if you often forget where to put school supplies, learning is easily abandoned halfway through;