I'm in the library queue for Late, lost, and unprepared : a parents' guide to helping children with executive functioning / Joyce Cooper-Kahn, Laurie C. Dietzel. I'm hoping reading this book will help answer those questions! This was a good post too. Hyperfocused yet scatterbrained seems to sum it up. http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/hyperfocused-yet-scatterbrained/