"AD/HD is the most common neurobehavioural disorder of childhood, affecting approximately three to seven percent of school-aged children." (Rief, 2005, p. xvi)
AD/HD is an umbrella term for a family of disorders which interfere with a person's capacity to regulate activity level (hyperactivity), inhibit behaviour (impulsivity), and attend to tasks (inattention). (National Institute of Mental Health, 2000, in Rief, 2005, p. 4)
A child may have the more easily recognisable attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or only the attention deficit disorder, which is harder to recognise and hence can go undetected throughout a child's schooling. Their failure to attend to tasks, stay focused, listen, refrain from daydreaming and so on, can be read as laziness rather than identified as a treatable disorder.
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