The Importance Of Children With ADHD

As children grow up they develop selective attention. Selective attention is the ability of focusing one’s attention on relevant information and disregarding what is irrelevant. This skill becomes more and more relevant to a young student as the school year goes by. Each new school year brings new difficulties and new learning objectives. If students want to succeed, they must be able to pay attention and stay alert during class. However some children struggle though class due to ADHD. Attention- deficit/ hyperactivity disorder is a common behavioral disorder that affects an estimated 3% to 5% of school-age children. These kids “act without thinking, are hyperactive, and have trouble focusing” (Chaban, 2014). Although they can understand what teachers’ expect out of them, they still have trouble doing any task because they can’t sit still.
Kids with ADHD can easily be bored or flustered and they also tend to constantly move. Many times they are impulsive and don’t think before they act. Although these behaviors are seen in most young children, they are amplified in a child with ADHD. Boys are four times more likely to have ADHD than the girls. Students without the disorder that work around children with ADHD have trouble working with them and may think that the child is weird or annoying. The reason they would think this way about another child is that the child acts differently then what they consider to be normal behavior during school. There was a kid in my elementary class with ADHD in my sixth grade class. He had a hard time focusing during the lesson and would start taking whenever he wanted during the class. My friends and I knew how the others had bullied him and called him names all the time. We always made sure to say...

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...was recently conducted to learn more about how culture affects ADHD. More than 3,300 parents of children with ADHD from different ethnic backgrounds were interviewed. They were asked questions about how they felt having their kids assessed and treated for ADHD. Their fears included the fear of being "labeled" with ADHD, the fear that treatment will be based on their child's race or ethnicity, their lack of knowledge about ADHD and available services, the fear of being misdiagnosed, and the cost of treatment. Based on this study, African American and Hispanic parents were more likely than other parents to feel there were barriers that prevented their children from being properly diagnosed and treated for ADHD. It doesn't matter where you come from, what you look like, how much money you have, or what language you speak. Assessment and treatment for ADHD is available.