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ADHD

ADHD. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. By Richard Oliver. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ADHD is a developmental disorder that is diagnosed during childhood. The symptoms of ADHD are inattentiveness, hyperactivity, impulsivity or a combination.

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ADHD

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  1. ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder By Richard Oliver

  2. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD is a developmental disorder that is diagnosed during childhood. The symptoms of ADHD are inattentiveness, hyperactivity, impulsivity or a combination.

  3. Inclusion • The importance of including students with ADHD in the classroom are: • Building social interaction. • Making the child feel that they are not strange or alone. • Showing other students to be open-minded and accepting to all, • regardless of ability. • Creating a real world environment made up of many individuals.

  4. The Future is Inclusion • Strategies set out by the British Columbia Provincial Government: • Provide students with an outline or skeleton of information that will be presented in lecture style and ask them to fill it in as the class proceeds. • Provide students with individual • white boards, or response cards so • that when the teacher is working with • a large group, each student can • be expected to respond.

  5. Inclusion is the Future • More Strategies: • Structure partner activities so that students can read orally, question each other, confirm understanding, or assist each other to remain on task. • Encourage students to demonstrate understanding • of learning outcomes in a variety of ways including • oral presentations, audio or video taped projects such as • radio plays or news reports, dramatizations of factual information.

  6. Medication for ADHD • Advances in medicine is making it easier • for the children with the disorder. • The following information is from • kidshealth.org • Scientists have found that certain medicines are • helpful in improving ADHD symptoms. • These medicines help people with ADHD to concentrate and focus better. Methylphenidate • drugs (like Concerta or OROS extended release methylphenidate, Ritalin LA, Focalin XR, or Metadate CD) affect chemical signals in the • central nervous system. • Research suggests that this may • help people with ADHD because it increases the level of neurotransmitters in the • brain called dopamine and norepinephrine. 

  7. Education for All! The fact of the future is more and more governments in the Western and Eastern worlds are expanding their classrooms to add more and more children with disabilities into the mainstream classes. This means teachers are in need of more teaching strategies and parents are going to be more accepting to the thought of inclusion.

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