The LD/ADHD Psycho Education Test Analysis

I remember watching old home videos of me and my sister and observing the contrast of our personalities even though she’s older than me by just one year.I specifically remember in one of those old tapes, my sister being loud,talkative and outgoing rambling about a bumblebee and me sitting in a corner attempting to pull the phone cord out of the wall.It was evident that I was the more shy and quiet sister.Around age five is when my character started to bloom due to my exposer and love of dance.

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The increase of ADHD diagnosis has raised many questions and concerns among the public and doctors. However, the percentage of ADHD diagnosis has changed over the last several years. The rise of ADHD diagnosis is, in fact, occurring in the United States. According to (Brown University, 2013) the amount of children that received an ADHD diagnosis increased by 22 percent in a four – year period based on data from the CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also stated that the percentage of children with a diagnosis of ADHD continue to increase in the United States. The growth of ADHD diagnosis is detrimental to society because it affects how ADHD is diagnosed, treatment, and the estimated number of patients that received an ADHD diagnosis.

The topic that I selected for my commentary essay is the increase in ADHD diagnosis. The perspectives I have noticed regarding my topic is that over diagnoses and the over use of ADHD medication may have contributed to the rise in ADHD diagnosis.

If parents, teachers, and other professionals discover a child's learning disability early and provide the right kind of help, it can give the child a chance to develop skills needed to lead a successful and productive life. The LD online website provides a long list of characteristics that might indicate a learning disability between the ages of Kindergarten and high school. Some common signs of a learning disability that as a teacher we can look for in the classroom would be, a student speaks later than most children, pronunciation problems, slow vocabulary growth, student is often unable to find the right word, difficulty rhyming words, trouble learning numbers, alphabet, colors, and shapes, extremely restless and easily distracted, trouble interacting with peers, difficulty following directions or routines, and lastly the fine motor skills are slow to develop. Once the teacher or parents can understand what type of learning disability a child has they can help them succeed academically by providing instruction better and understanding the person

     When a child doesn’t seem to be learning, some teachers and parents in his/her life might criticize the child and think of them as stupid, or maybe just too lazy to want to learn. What they don’t realize is that the child might have a learning disability. But how are these children being helped? There are many programs, special schools and facilities, home teaching methods and many other ways in which children with Learning Disabilities are being helped.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) seems to be the affliction of this generation of children. It seems more prevalent every year. However, diagnosis criteria for ADHD is so subjective, what qualifies, who qualifies? There is no specific clinical cause for ADHD but it obviously exists. So many questions remain to be answered about ADHD. Are more children really being diagnosed with ADHD annually and is it really on the rise as it appears? Are too many children being wrongly diagnosed with ADHD as an easy way out because of other behavioral problems? And when ADHD is properly diagnosed are we overmedicating our children to make it easier for parents and teachers to cope? How often are other afflictions

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3. to determine the degree of consistency between the sources and across situations with respect to reports of behaviours associated with ADHD.

I have NLD and ADHD which are classified as intellectual/learning disabilities. There are many challenges caused by these disabilities including: attention issues, hyperactivity, organization problems, and problems with focusing. These challenges mean that I had an IEP/504 while I was in school that allowed me to receive the accommodations that I needed such as: a laptop (for long writing assignments), extra time on standardized tests, and making assignments larger if needed. These accommodations allow me to be as successful as I can be. Even more important than my accommodations in school is my faith in God, who according to Jeremiah 29:11, For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

The study titled “Illicit use of Prescription ADHD Medications on College campuses, by DeSantis, Webb, & Noar, (2008) from the Journal of American College Health,” is both quantitative and qualitative in design, because the authors used mass surveys to gather statistics and in-depth interviews to collect personal information.

Following the United States’ government’s decision giving educations the ability to identify children as LD, most state departments of education adopted the severe discrepancy idea (Frankenberger & Franzaglio, 1991). At one time, the severe discrepancy model was identifying students as LD based on unexpected or unexplained failure to benefit from general classroom instruction (Werts, 2009). This model, focused on a severe discrepancy' between ability and achievement. It was the standard method used to determine how much impact the processing problem had on a student's actual achievement. With the adoption of this discrepancy model, many states defined the discrepancy in their own way (Fuchs et al., 2003). Identifying a student as LD was

Since the dawning of television there has been a common saying throughout households, “don’t watch too much television, it’ll rot your brain.” Many researchers and parents love to believe so. However this saying came to be a problem with the topic of ADHD. ADHD is a learning disorder that “make it difficult to stay still, concentrate, and exercise forethought and self-control” (Harvard 3). Sounds annoying to have and live with right? Well what if you add in a research done in 2004 where a study was conducted on how television affects ADHD and then started a heated debate on whether or not ADHD can be caused by too much TV watching. Sounds utterly fantastic, right? Well this is what happened and the argument still goes on today, meanwhile people

Growing, developing and learning are the facts of life for all children. Each day children are faced with many new concepts and various challenges. Can you imagine how it feels for a child to face not only new challenges life has, but to face these challenges while living with a learning disability? These challenges are met not just when they begin school either. Students suffer from learning disabilities from the moment they begin learning, not when they start school. Learning disabilities are real and they affect millions of people. “One such disability that affects over approximately 15 percent of the total American population is dyslexia” ( Nosek 5).

In today’s educational environment, all students expect to receive the same level of instruction from schools and all students must meet the same set of standards. Expectations for students with learning disabilities are the same as students without any learning difficulties. It is now unacceptable for schools or teachers to expect less from one segment of students because they have physical disabilities, learning disabilities, discipline problems, or come from poor backgrounds. Standardize testing has resulted in making every student count as much as their peers and the most positive impact has been seen with the lowest ability students. Schools have developed new approaches to reach these previously underserved students while