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\"\"<\/a>Inability to maintain attention. The person shifts from one area or topic to another with minimal provocation. Distractibility may be a manifestation of an underlying medical disease, medication side effect, or a mental disorder such as an anxiety disorder, mania, or schizophrenia.<\/p>\n

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The tendency to be easily drawn away from any task at hand and to focus on extraneous stimuli of the moment.<\/p>\n

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Distractibility refers to difficulties in sustaining attention to tasks, concentrating, tracking, and screening out interfering distractions. A child who is distractible may appear to be daydreaming, doodling, or paying unnecessary attention to what others are doing (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders [CHADD], 2000). Children described as distractible typically display shorter attention spans than do their same-age peers, and they usually have difficulty completing assignments when multitasking is involved. Their inability to focus attention may result in uncompleted assignments and forgotten items. Distractibility negatively impacts a child\u2019s ability successfully to complete school and household tasks.<\/p>\n

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Inability to focus for very long on any single task, tending to shift attention to new sights, sounds, or activities in the environment; a common problem among children with learning disabilities, especially attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.<\/p>\n

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Inability to focus one\u2019s attention; loss of the ability to concentrate.<\/p>\n

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