Author: Erez Katz
Date: 2020-06-10 17:18
For many, the problem comes from some form, either mild or severe of ADD/ADHD.
30 years ago a lot if cases would be under "poor discipline" and the very severe cases would be on ritalin. Since then, modern imaging technologies revealed that the brain activity patterns of people with ADD/ADHD are different.
Folks with ADHD can focus on specific subjects and excell in them unaided, it is called hyper-focus.
Evaluation or diagnosis of ADD belongs to professionals. Though many experienced school teachers can tell and in some cases suggest evaluation to parents. There are also self evaluation questionnaires available online, it is worth to check out.
As a music teacher, it is a different position.
I think it is very important when dealing with a student that loses focus after 20 minutes to understand how to work with the problem. For example, when you can tell the attention starts to slip, it might be a good time to take a break, maybe mentioned it something like "i feel we are losing focus, lets rest for 5 minutes and see if we can get it back".
I had an interesting conversation with a Philharmonic member on the subject a few months ago and he said "when I loose my attention I just stop and rest, if I try to power through it it would only damage my what I am trying to achieve".
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