ild evaluated for hyperactive behavior, in all likelihood, you have been coping with not one or two problems but a complex set of problems that affects your child in all areas as his or her environment. In addition, the child's problems can be exacerbated by social and nonsocial factors including health, diet, friends, learning problems, siblings, and even your own emotional state.
             There is no absolute, diagnostic test for hyperactivity. It requires the careful collection of information from a variety of sources (i.e., parents and teachers), by a variety of means (i.e., questionnaires, interviews, and testing), in a variety of ways. In addition, there are no positives markers in a child's developmental history that will absolutely diagnose hyperactivity. Though certain early childhood developmental factors (i.e., the difficult-to-comfort infant or the infant with sleep difficulty) may place children at risk, hyperactivity is marked by a cluster of these problems, their intensity or severity, and
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