Colorado Chiropractic Journal Vol. Colorado Chiropractic Journal - Vol. When an individual has that chemical imbalance, the outward signs of the attention deficit are seen by parents, teachers, and other observers.
Some attention deficits come with hyperactivity and some without hyperactivity.
The job of the professional who is evaluating the individual for a possible attention deficit starts there. The children, adolescents, and adults who have attention deficits have not changed. They still show the same characteristics that they always have. Yet the professionals who are doing the evaluations have changed the system they use to describe and diagnose attention deficits. As our knowledge of attention deficits has improved, so has our ability to carefully decide who has an attention deficit and who does not.