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Title: Discover the Overlooked Gifts of ADHD

Author: Sarah O'Brien

Date: February 19, 2013 9:34:45 AM or Tue, 19 February 2013 09:34:45

Summary: There are many ways in which ADHD can be transformed into opportunities for growth and learning.

While having ADHD may make it more difficult to sit attentively in a traditional classroom, or to ignore distractions while reading, the gifts of ADHD may facilitate an intensity of focus to the immediate feedback, multimodality, and increasing level of challenges that define video game and technology play. Playing video games and mastering digital technologies provide children with ADHD an opportunity to “unwrap their gifts”.

Body: Learning Works for Kids

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