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Diagnostic Considerations In The Identification Of The Hyperactive Child, Barbara Jagoda Draheim
Diagnostic Considerations In The Identification Of The Hyperactive Child, Barbara Jagoda Draheim
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
The hyperactive disorder of childhood and the enumeration of its features were described in two papers published in the mid-1950's, by Laufer and his colleagues (Laufer, 1957; Laufer, Denhoff & Solomons, 1956). It was a list that has since become familiar; short attention span, impulsivity, irritability, low frustration tolerance, poor academic achievement, and visual-motor difficulties. Like many who have since searched for definers of the syndrome, Laufer and his colleagues remarked upon the perplexing variability displayed by these children, and they noted that no single symptom could be considered diagnostic. They described the development of "secondary psychological difficulties" due to …