Hello,
My daughter, 12, is finally diagnosed as ADHD. It was hard to tell what she has because as the doctor told me, apparently ADHD girls are less active externally and therefore it is hard to diagnose them as ADHD .
Anyway she started taking Ritalin on last May and no doubt it brought her back to track at school.
The issue is that Ritalin is doing one job quite well and that is great 4-5 hours at school, but it does not treat other problems such as lack of attention and poor concentration after school and during vacations.
My question is: are there any other means to help her be more focused during vacation? Even when she does not need to learn, I can see she is sitting and doing nothing just because she cannot focus.
We started looking for help in natural healing and came across a very interesting treatment of Sound Frequency treatment.
They are called Healtone (www.healtone.com) and they provide sound files for many problems, amongst them ADHD and ADD. These sounds are quite abstract - far from being music, but they have a very positive effect on my daughter's concentration. After 5 minutes she listens to the sounds she can sit and read something for 30 minutes with no interruption and that happens now during vacation when she doesn't take Ritalin.
Now I can see that she can become more focused without any drug, but it is for short period of time and I am looking for treatment that will help her raise her entire level of concentration.
I asked a natural healer and he said that in time the frequency treatment will help her raising her level of concentration, but it can be a long process.
Thanks
Alian