It would be interesting to see if there is any data on other sensory distractions, like visual distractions. DD's teachers comment on how she is distracted by things that seem irrelevant to the task at hand, like an illustration on a paper. A few months ago we were at a restaurant with one of those credit card machines at the table. I told DD to get up and ask a random server for a take out box (since it was slow service),, and apparently the server said that she'd bring it and asked what table we were at. DD said "table 32" (the server told me about this afterwards, that's how flabbergasted she was). Apparently the credit card thing has a tiny number in the corner that I couldn't even see until I had studied it for a while, but somehow DD saw that and knew that was our table number.
I don't know that I would call DD "creative" but she also has a big problem with sounds and she has ADHD. Her perceptual reasoning score on the WISC was practically off the charts.
