attention-deficit disorder

plural attention-deficit disorders

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of attention deficit disorder.

   The precocious child’s wide range of interests often causes adults to believe he or she is hyperactive, has an attention-deficit disorder and is easily distracted.

   1980 November 13, Saul Kapel, “[Parents & children] Problems of gifted children”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., page 54, column 4

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   Capturing kids’ attention presents too many challenges these days, with their attention-deficit disorders, depression, obesity, alcohol and drug abuse, undisciplined behavior, guns, absentee and unemployed parents, et cetera.

   2013, Tom Finkelpearl, quoting Ernesto Pujol, “Memory of Surfaces”, in What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, section 3 (Museum, Education, Cooperation), page 102

   Hermsford, who has learning disabilities and was inspired to become a teacher by some close mentoring relationships she had with her own teachers growing up, said she has been most impressed how teachers in her classroom have addressed students with needs like attention-deficit disorder through tools such as standing desks.

   2022 September 29, Ashley Saari, “Franklin Pierce and Jaffrey-Rindge partner for student-teacher program”, in Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Peterborough, N.H., page 6, column 4