ADHD: the facts

Abstract

[...]the book fails to explain the role of attentional difficulties in the aetiology of social clumsiness found in ADHD, which is quite different in character to the primary socialisation difficulties of autism, arising as they do from deficits in communication, empathy, and theory of mind. The author appears to explain all behaviours in children with ADHD using exclusively neuropsychological, rather than behavioural, theory with no discussion of the impact of a child's developmental context on how both personality and disorder are manifest.