attention-deficit disorder

See also: attention deficit disorder

English

Noun

attention-deficit disorder (countable and uncountable, plural attention-deficit disorders)

1. Alternative form of attention deficit disorder.
   • 1980 November 13, Saul Kapel, “[Parents & children] Problems of gifted children”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., page 54, column 4:

     The precocious child’s wide range of interests often causes adults to believe he or she is hyperactive, has an attention-deficit disorder and is easily distracted.

   • 2013, Tom Finkelpearl, quoting Ernesto Pujol, “Memory of Surfaces”, in What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, section 3 (Museum, Education, Cooperation), page 102:

     Capturing kids’ attention presents too many challenges these days, with their attention-deficit disorders, depression, obesity, alcohol and drug abuse, undisciplined behavior, guns, absentee and unemployed parents, et cetera.

   • 2022 September 29, Ashley Saari, “Franklin Pierce and Jaffrey-Rindge partner for student-teacher program”, in Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Peterborough, N.H., page 6, column 4:

     Hermsford, who has learning disabilities and was inspired to become a teacher by some close mentoring relationships she had with her own teachers growing up, said she has been most impressed how teachers in her classroom have addressed students with needs like attention-deficit disorder through tools such as standing desks.