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Analyzing ADHD Symptoms in Preschool-aged Children

There are two reasons, I think, that we haven’t really addressed these types
of behavior problems in this population. First, we typically don’t see behavior problems
until children enter school; when they’re required to pay a lot of attention
to academics and sit in their seats for periods of time. So, we typically wait until they enter school
to start addressing some of these problem behaviors. But, now we’re starting to see if we wait until they get worse, until the problem behaviors intensify, it’s much harder to intervene. We’re recognizing if we can intervene at a younger age then we
can prevent the problems from escalating at a later time. Also, typically the types of behaviors that we see in ADHD, such as having to attend to tasks for a long period of time, having to sit in your seat at school, we typically see those kinds of behaviors in school settings when expectations are put on children
to sit and attend to their work. But, we’ve only recently begun to recognize
that we can identify these symptoms in very young children, and they look somewhat similar
to the symptoms we see in older-aged children. Knowing that we can identify the symptoms in younger children, we believe we can now go in and intervene at an early age and
prevent some of the problems that children have at a later time.