Being ADD, with hyperactivity myself, and raised with several members of my family being ADD, I am inclined to agree that video games would help assist the concentration and focusing of children with ADD.
But, I do see a problem with this: Children with ADD (as you know) do have a tendency to drift from doing what they are actually working on. Especially to things that do not pose a challenge to them.
When I would come home from grade school, I would plop myself in front of the video game consol and not look up for hours on end. Legos had the same effect on me as well where I would create and destroy worlds all before dinner.
Then, came the time to do home work. Home work? What's that? There was more interesting worlds to explore within the world of building blocks and little people.
Now, I have read in places and magazines where there had been the children that had ADD seem to have been "cured". When, in fact, the children with ADD had become adults with ADD. There is also an organization called CHADD that deals with Children and adults with ADD.
Also, schools who would have "problem children" and usually quick to diagnose these children, just because they fit into a certain category of symptoms. The children are given a label and put on drugs without a thorough diagnosis.
Now, thru CHADD, and other organizations, adults who are diagnosed with ADD seem to have found a nitch in where they belong in today's job market.
Those jobs do include:
Emergency rooms
Help Desks
Computer programmers
Other computer related fields
and others I may have forgot
The key to assisting these children is not to drug them out or to set them in front of a television or video game. Give the children something constructive to do. I think that due to my parents' work, I turned out alright.
(9) CDDB access as well as on screen/IR remote title entry for those not savvy enough to network the thing
I don't know if this still exists or not, there is a piece of software that I had installed for my brother's computer (Windows Box) that came with his internal IDE Zip drive. It would allow a CD to be copied and transfered into the MP2 file format with decient results. Of course, this would be copied onto the Zip Disk and then could be transfered over to the hard drive.
Once it was on the hard drive (or before transfering) I would change the file extension from MP2 to MP3 and winamp would read it with no problem. As well as Window's media Player.
Put the box on a network, burn the MP3 to CD and you were set to go to do what you wish. I would do this for most of what I wanted to transfer over to MP3's.
I also do believe that there was an interface that would hook up to CDDB and get the song title, artist and alblum imported in the ID and in the file name.
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But, I do see a problem with this: Children with ADD (as you know) do have a tendency to drift from doing what they are actually working on. Especially to things that do not pose a challenge to them.
When I would come home from grade school, I would plop myself in front of the video game consol and not look up for hours on end. Legos had the same effect on me as well where I would create and destroy worlds all before dinner.
Then, came the time to do home work. Home work? What's that? There was more interesting worlds to explore within the world of building blocks and little people.
Now, I have read in places and magazines where there had been the children that had ADD seem to have been "cured". When, in fact, the children with ADD had become adults with ADD. There is also an organization called CHADD that deals with Children and adults with ADD.
Also, schools who would have "problem children" and usually quick to diagnose these children, just because they fit into a certain category of symptoms. The children are given a label and put on drugs without a thorough diagnosis.
Now, thru CHADD, and other organizations, adults who are diagnosed with ADD seem to have found a nitch in where they belong in today's job market.
Those jobs do include:
The key to assisting these children is not to drug them out or to set them in front of a television or video game. Give the children something constructive to do. I think that due to my parents' work, I turned out alright.
I don't know if this still exists or not, there is a piece of software that I had installed for my brother's computer (Windows Box) that came with his internal IDE Zip drive. It would allow a CD to be copied and transfered into the MP2 file format with decient results. Of course, this would be copied onto the Zip Disk and then could be transfered over to the hard drive.
Once it was on the hard drive (or before transfering) I would change the file extension from MP2 to MP3 and winamp would read it with no problem. As well as Window's media Player.
Put the box on a network, burn the MP3 to CD and you were set to go to do what you wish. I would do this for most of what I wanted to transfer over to MP3's.
I also do believe that there was an interface that would hook up to CDDB and get the song title, artist and alblum imported in the ID and in the file name.
Till then.