concerned but amateur

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I am a regular mumsnetter but have changed my name as this is about a child I come into contact with.

I am involved in a children's activity organisation. Another person involved in the organisation has raised concerns about a child who comes to us. She is a very active, imaginative, intelliegnt child but she cannot physically stand or sit still. I know we all say this about lots of children but this is really true. She can not be still for a second. She will also sometimes lose concentration totally and sort of go off on her own little whatever. (Last week she was shrieking)

Last year we thought it was becasue she was outgrowing the group she was in but she is in the older group now.

We feel that we should say or do something but don't want to set ourselves up as amateur diagnoses. We wondered about ADHD or something similar.

Do any of you who know about these conditions think this fits with her behaviour pattern.

As a parent what would you want us to do/say.

How old is the child?

I would not mention ADHD or anything to the parent, but there is no harm mentioning the fact that she doesn't keep still and maybe about the shrieking (depending on her age of course)

Maybe the child does have a diagnosis of something and the parent hasn't told you?
My Mum and Dad run a sunday school and have had a couple of children that seemed younger than their age, an 11 year old that was getting a doll for Christmas, struggling to tie laces, wondered off on her own sometimes etc but the parents didn't tell my Mum and Dad for ages that she had a degree of SN. Although we suspected it anyway

I agree with anniebear, I would only mention what you can see for yourself, i.e. the behaviours and not speculate to the parents what they might mean. It could well be that she does not have any dx but they may be thinking along those lines and need some extra support to take that step or to help get people to listen to them. Or they may be "unaware" or in denial but there's no harm if you say what you have observed.