Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

I enjoyed this 20-hour field experience, special education has always been a passion of mine. This gave me the opportunity to see first-hand what my future teaching job could look like. I noticed there was numerous amounts of paper work that must be filled out for each student that is in the special education classroom. There is also a lot of data scores that must be collected and used when determining a student’s IEP. Time management is very important when creating a daily schedule to meet the student’s needs.

Foster child, Annalisa Carrion, was replaced from the non-kinship therapeutic foster home of Carmen Arvelo and Miguel Quiles (Ms. Arvelo’s husband) on June 22nd, 2015. A report was received on June 26th, 2015 with the allegation of laceration, bruises, welts, and inadequate guardianship regarding Annalisa Carrion against Miguel Quiles.

Ever since then standardized testing has been a huge part of education. Teachers across the nation had to teach to the curriculum instead of what they thought the students needed to learn. Nowadays colleges strictly look at ACT and SAT scores rather than classroom grades, because they believe that some teachers grade on a curve and are not giving the students a fair chance. Standardized tests are an unreliable measure of student performance. A 2001 study published by the Brookings Institution found that 50-80% of year-over-year tests core improvements were temporary and “caused by fluctuations that had nothing to do with long-term changes in learning…”(“Standardized Tests”). Teachers are stressed over if they are teaching “correctly”. They went to a 4-year college, some even more, to get a degree in something that they wanted to do, either for themselves or for the children, and now they have to “teach to the test”. Tests can only measure a portion of the goals of education. A pschometrician, Daniel Koretz says, “standardized tests usually do not provide a direct and complete measure of educational achievement.”(Harris, Harris, and Smith).

There is no universally accepted definition of EFs: Experts generated 33 terms, with few terms receiving general support (Eslinger, 1996). Important EFs include inhibition, planning, time perception, internal ordering, working memory, self-monitoring, verbal self-regulation, motor control, maintenance versus change of mental set,

Are we really receiving the correct medication needed within our medicated society today? This article goes over some very important facts about Attention- Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It includes a lot of data and statistics about the disorder, including the shocking statistics that “approximately 11% of children 4-17 years of age (6.4 million) have been diagnosed with ADHD as of 2011”, and “the percentage of children with an ADHD diagnosis continues to increase, from 7.8% in 2003 to 9.5% in 2007 and to 11.0% in 2011” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2013). As of 2011, only 6.1% of children diagnosed with ADHD were taking medication for their diagnosed disorder, another statistic stated in the article (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2013). The article also uses many graphs and charts to show geographic occurrence of current and past diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder, along with those receiving or having received medication for their diagnosis. Lastly, the article also includes details and facts of injuries associated with a diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder, peer relationships with children diagnosed and their parents, as well as economic costs in regards to ambulatory rides, emergency room visits, and medication costs.

When most of us hear AD/HD or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, we think of rowdy kids who can’t seem to sit still or focus and who get side tracked by random things. There are many parents who think that their kids are overenergetic and are all too ready to believe that their child may have AD/HD and so, they take them to get diagnosed and put on a treatment plan, but in reality, there’s nothing wrong with them and it’s just a case of a kid being a kid. So why is it that these kids have to be put on medication just because they’re energetic? Why are medications prescribed for AD/HD when people can live normal lives without them, at all? Society attempts to use medication as a form of social control over those who are different in

The statistics are stunning, an estimated 6.4 million school-age children (ages 4 – 17) have received a medical diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Have you ever wondered what it is like to be diagnosed with ADHD? Take a moment and put yourself in the place of a child who has received this diagnosis. Imagine what it is like to be the boy or girl who can’t stop screaming, fighting or fidgeting. The child who stares and does not focus. Imagine the parents of an ADHD child, who takes their child out in public and he/she begins running around, climbing on objects, knocking things over or just screams so people think you are mistreating him/her. I think that children with this type of behavior should be put on medication

Children are the future. As children develop throughout life there suppose to be themselves; play and not be as attentive as an adult would be. As of today, many children are starting to be misdiagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder due to certain characteristics that children are exhibiting and this is exacerbated by: behaviors that are developmentally appropriate, cultural differences between home and school, and the lack of knowledge of the symptoms and disorder that is ADHD.

Since a couple of years, kids' sports have been shifted indoors. Indoor sports are not bad but shifting totally to just one kind is. There are a lot of benefits of playing outdoors which one can't enjoy playing the same on an electronic screen. Kids are missing out their health growth by avoiding going out to play. Summarizing it all, in a nutshell, kids are missing on the mind, body and spirit development.

In classrooms across America, students are being forced to sit in uncomfortable and unsupportive chairs. With longer days in classrooms, children are also having a greater difficulty of focusing. There has been great growth in children’s diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, making the long days at school difficult. Along with a higher frequency of diagnoses, childhood obesity has grown tremendously across the country. With little time being designated for children to release energy, as well as few opportunities to practice active lifestyles, schools are seeing more wiggly and inattentive students.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA, 2013) defines attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development. ADHD is separated into three subtypes: predominantly hyperactive-impulsive, predominantly inattentive, and combined hyperactive-impulsive and inattentive (subtypes will be described in more detail in the following section). ADHD is one of the most prevalent mental health disorders found in children throughout the world, affecting of children from various ethnic, cultural, and social backgrounds. Children with this disorder have significant difficulties in academic, social and family live.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), is one of the most well-known behavioral disorder in children (Madhuri 2015), Which estimated all year at about 3–10% between children worldwide. A.D.H.D is more commonly observed in boys five times more than girls ( Jonna 2006).

In the video, when Jeffery was having the drawing task, he desired to play with his toys. At that moment, he cannot determine the priorities between tasks and games. It can be observed that he tried to multitask both actions, also is able to response to different simultaneous at the same time. Based on the multimode theory, normal people can choose to select one message over another at different points according to the level of importance. Normal people have flexible divided attention so as to do more than one task at the same time. They can also ignore the information that are not relevant. Although ADHD children have the ability to multitask, it cannot function in an efficiently way. For example, Jeffery could not judge to pay more attention

As a teacher of elementary school you work with all different types of children. Some children are very advanced and excel in their work and others take longer to catch on and comprehend the curriculum being taught. Children with ADHD sometimes get labeled as not being very intelligent but in most children with ADHD that is not the case in fact these types of kids tend to be very bright. Their problem does not lie with lack of intelligence but with being able to sit still and focus long enough to be taught something.

Individuals with known disabilities can be an asset to an organization that hires them. There are jobs that require specific requirements and there are those that may be tailored to an individual with a disability. With regard to this requirement organization managers have the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is located under the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to help guide them. It is this law that makes it illegal to discriminate against those that are otherwise qualified for a position, but have a disability. There are procedures that must take place not only for people with attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but for everyone that has a diagnosed disability.