Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Twice Exceptional is being easily distracted the same as add?

No, they are many reasons other that ADHD for being easily distracted. AD(H)D is particular diagnosis, but being easily distracted is just one symptoms of this syndrome. Two other reasons I can come up with for being easily distracted in a classroom setting is if one bored/unchallenged or if one has a learning difficulties that makes it hard to follow directions.

Both my kids have been checked out for ADHD and neither of them has the disorder, but both had teachers worried because they seemed "distractable". My daughter has language processing difficulties and the conclusion was addressing the LD should help the distractablilty. (This was addressed in 3rd grade & she is in college now.) My DS on the other hand often finds himself very BORED at school, also resulting in daydreaming, doodling, staring out the window thus missing important info and looking like he has ADHD to untrained teachers.

Teachers are not the experts here and should not be making any diagnosis of ADHD.