Page 6 - Martin Downs Bulletin - December '24

Page 6, Martin Downs

Kids corner

My Child Is Slow To Get Going her daughter was perhaps lazy, unmotivated, or did not their room and find something they misplaced and become
understand what to do. But what really perplexed this distracted playing with this and not cleaning up. Fourth,
By Jim Forgan, Ph.D. mom was that Eve was slow regardless of if the activity your child might have ADHD, Predominantly Inattentive
Licensed School Psychologist was something fun or routine. It could be getting ready Presentation or what we used to call ADD.
Eve’s nickname is “Eeyore” for a fun day at the waterpark and she was still slow. Seek answers and understanding so you can do something
one parent told me. She was There are many reasons why a child is completing tasks different instead of becoming frustrated with your child and
feeling frustration when dealing at a much slower pace than their peers. One reason is your straining your relationship. A school neuropsychological
with her child completing child could have slower processing speed so even simple tasks evaluation will help you get to the root cause of why your
tasks slower than everyone will take them longer to complete. This can leave your child child is completing tasks so slowly. Our evaluations assess
else. Whether it was doing feeling overwhelmed, mentally fatigued, and discouraged. all of these potential causes and provide specific and helpful
homework, completing Second, your child could have a weak working memory recommendations to improve your child’s functioning in the
simple household chores, and struggle to keep track of the tasks they are assigned and home and school settings.
or getting out the door in often forget what to do next. This can especially be noticed if Call us at (561) 625-4125 to discuss your child or learn
the morning, Eve was slow you give your child multiple tasks at once. Third, your child more at www.JimForgan.com.
or the last one to go. It required constant reminders and may have weaker inhibition which means that they have a
mom felt like she was always nagging. She hypothesized hard time resisting distractors. Your child could be cleaning

United Way from page 1

9. Wells Fargo
10. Ashley Capital
Top 10 Communities
1. Sailfish Point
2. Harbour Ridge
3. Willoughby
4. Sewall’s Point
5. Piper’s Landing
6. Jupiter Hills
7. Mariner Sands
8. Sandhill Cove
9. Loblolly
10. Jupiter Island Event Emcee Derek Lowe, coordinator of Public
These are the Top 10 of Information and Community Relations for the Martin
the nearly 200 companies County School District.
and communities whose
employees and residents gave • The Hand Raiser Award was presented to Wilmington
philanthropic contributions to Trust for always raising their hands to help when United
United Way of Martin County Number 2 Most Generous Workplace Award presented to Seacoast Bank. (Robert Barfield, Way is in need.
during the previous campaign Jenny Yingling, Sarah Lynch, Chuck Shaffer, Denise Anderson, Lisa Vasquez, Jared Gaylord, • The Collaborator of the Year Award was presented to
year. Since United Way’s Leslie Warren) Cleveland Clinic for partnering strategically with United
inception of honoring its Top Super Markets and Sailfish Point continue to reign as the Way on specific, critical initiatives.
10 Most Generous Workplaces and Communities, Publix most generous workplace and community in Martin County. • The Volunteer of the Year Award was presented
The following awards were presented to organizations to Kenny Marks for being a staple volunteer in our
and individuals that went above and beyond to support community.
United Way of Martin County’s efforts by donating their
time, talent and treasure. United Way on page 7
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Carol G. Houwaart-Diez, Derek Lowe)

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