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Multiple Stimuli Dlsorganlsatlon Syndrome: Treatment and Management of Children with Attentional Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2015

Trevor Parry
Trevor Parry*
Affiliation:
State Child Development Centre, Western Australia
*
State Child Development Centre, PO Box 510, West Perth Western Australia 6872, Phone: (09) 426 9485, Fax: (09) 324 2085
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Abstract

The State Child Development Centre (SCDC) of Western Australia has been involved in the assessment and management of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorders over the past twenty years. It is a Centre committed to the multimodal interdisciplinary approach to this and related developmental problems. Incorporated in this approach is the recognition that medication is likely to be an essential component in order to facilitate other measures being effective for a majority of children with well established attentional disorders. However, the Centre recognises that the concept of ADHD is not adequate to explain all the developmental problems of children, An alternative conceptualisation of ADHD as multiple stimuli disorganisation syndrome (MSDS) is proposed.

Keywords

ADHDMultiple Stimuli Disorganisation SyndromeMultimodal TreatmentMedication
Type
Research Article
Information
The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 13 , Issue 1: Special Double Issue: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder , May 1996 , pp. 56 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 1996

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