Children's Attention Deficit Disorder Treatment

Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD, has a few means of treatment available. Some of the treatments are often used together as a double attack against the condition. When diagnosed with the condition, your child's physician will recommend a course of treatment, as well as explain your options, based on severity of symptoms, your child's age and his ability to implement the treatment on his own.

Medication

• Stimulant medication is often prescribed to treat the symptoms of ADD. These medications are meant to help control symptoms, not eliminate them.

Therapy

• Your child's physician may recommend therapy to treat ADD. Most often a therapy session would be 1 hour in length at 30-day intervals.

Behavior Modification Programs

• Behavior modification is utilized to reward the ADD patient for positive behaviors. Negative behavior takes away from any reward already earned through positive behavior.

Structure

• Structuring everything in the child's schedule is another treatment course for ADD. Often this will include the same times for meals, bathing, television, rewards and other activates on a daily basis.

Positive Behavior

• ADD children often seek attention and therefore have many instances of negative behavior. Acknowledging positive behavior will often help reduce negative behavior when the child realizes he gains attention from being good, too.