The Office of the Dean of Students' Services for Students with Disabilities is located in the Student Services Building, Room 4.104. Call them at 471-6259. Their specialists can talk with you confidentially about your history, your concerns, the nature of LD and ADHD, legal rights, accommodations, appropriate documentation, referrals for diagnosis and the University's support for students with disabilities. ADHD is neurological in origin, so signs of it are observable before a child begins school. Adults with attention disorders may encounter problems with college work including difficulty concentrating or focusing, difficulties organizing studies, procrastination and marked slowness taking tests.
Attention deficit is a childhood diagnosis.
If you didn't have it as a child, you don't have it now. However, you may have had it as a child and never been diagnosed. Most college students report difficulties with concentration at one time or another. A large number of medical and psychiatric conditions cause problems with attention and concentration. Anxiety and depression are common conditions which cause concentration problems.