Sheree Fitzgerald is shown at her Macungie, Pa., home with her six-year-old son, Eddie, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007. Sheree enrolled Eddie in a study called Project Achieve when he was 3, and his parents and daycare/preschool teachers were taught strategies to control his prob-lem behaviors. New research shows giving more structure to a preschool-er's day can offer a non-drug alterna-tive to help the tiniest sufferers of at-tention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

家住賓州馬康吉的雪莉．費滋傑羅和罹患「注意力不足過動症候群」的6歲兒子艾迪在家盪秋千。雪莉在艾迪3歲時，讓他加入一項名為「達成計畫」的研究。艾迪的父母及托兒所和幼稚園的老師也被傳授控制他異常行為的方法。新的研究顯示，妥善規畫學齡前兒童日間照顧流程，可以不用服藥，就能有效協助過動兒。

After a year, aggression and other problem behaviors had dropped, and learning improved, by about 30%, the researchers report this month in a journal of the National Association of School Psychologists.

通常一年後，攻擊和其他問題行為都會消失，學習能力也會改善約30%，研究人員本月在「學校心理學家國家協會」所出的刊物報表報告。

Between 3% and 5% of school-age children are thought to have ADHD. Identifying the littlest patients is diffi-cult.

學齡前兒童有3%至5%被認為有「注意力不足過動症候群」，要診斷出幼小的過動兒並不容易。

ADHD drugs are not formally ap-proved for use in preschoolers, and while they may help some, side effects are more common in younger chil-dren, including a worrisome slowing of growth.

學齡前兒童並未正式通過可以使用過動症藥物，雖然這些藥物可以幫助其中某些過動兒，副作用在幼童身上更常見，包括令人憂心的成長遲緩。