ABSTRACT
Healthy children usually have time for school, extracurricular activities, homework, social activities, meals, and, unfortunately, television. For child with chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), the normal twelve to fourteen hours of available activity time will likely become two to ten hours. Obviously, the schedule that child or adolescent followed before becoming ill will have to change. The trick is to fit productive learning time into this shortened day. CFIDS is an illness of relapses and rebounds. The severity of the relapses may fluctuate from day to day and week to week and are often set off by increased exertion, physical activity, and even stress. A child with more severe CFIDS will probably have an activity range of twenty-one hours of inactivity to three hours of activity. Obviously, a the Young Person with CFIDS with so few hours of total activity would not be successful attending school on a full-time basis.
