Imagine five children in a single classroom of approximately thirty total children. Those five children are fidgety, talkative, staring around the room, or not paying attention. These are all symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) which has become a common problem of not being capable to focus, being overactive, not being able to control behaviors, or a combination of these. Now how might a teacher react to a child with symptoms of this particular disorder? Well, there are three steps as a teacher one should take when dealing with ADHD students: to accommodate, instruct, and intervene. You begin by accommodating students’ needs doing tasks like adjusting seats or behavior systems. You may have to change the way you instruct
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Based on personal experiences ADHD does bring multiple combinations of conflicts into a single person or into an entire family. When I was younger one had to be referred by a teacher, doctor, or some other form of authority in order to be tested for ADHD. I was unable to even be tested until January of my senior year of high school. I tested positive for ADHD and the medications changed my life completely. Without the medications there was potential for me to not even pursue my dream of becoming an educator just because I couldn’t handle concentrating or fidgeting. I would concentrate so much at school that by the time I got in my car after school I would just cry, fight, and argue with my mother. My brain had done all it could handle for those seven hours of school and it refused to do anymore which in turn made me frustrated and incapable to complete any given task as the day went on. My experience created a number of conflicts in myself and family these conflicts consisted of delaying maturation, complicating peer and family functioning, anxiety, accidents, and standards. My own view of treatments and support systems never really helped me as much as some others so I do not have a valid argument in that field. However, from experience with medications they are the only thing that has placed me where I am today. The medications for …show more content…
Some do not see why this medication is important for children and see it as hurting their children then helping them. Most say that doctors are misdiagnosing children because they are using just a check list and not an actual test examination. ADHD cannot be diagnosed in the matter of a normal twenty to thirty minute doctors’ appointment. Although I grant that misdiagnoses of children is harmful to them, I still maintain that if a child or adult is tested correctly then they should have a right to the medication
Based on personal experiences ADHD does bring multiple combinations of conflicts into a single person or into an entire family. When I was younger one had to be referred by a teacher, doctor, or some other form of authority in order to be tested for ADHD. I was unable to even be tested until January of my senior year of high school. I tested positive for ADHD and the medications changed my life completely. Without the medications there was potential for me to not even pursue my dream of becoming an educator just because I couldn’t handle concentrating or fidgeting. I would concentrate so much at school that by the time I got in my car after school I would just cry, fight, and argue with my mother. My brain had done all it could handle for those seven hours of school and it refused to do anymore which in turn made me frustrated and incapable to complete any given task as the day went on. My experience created a number of conflicts in myself and family these conflicts consisted of delaying maturation, complicating peer and family functioning, anxiety, accidents, and standards. My own view of treatments and support systems never really helped me as much as some others so I do not have a valid argument in that field. However, from experience with medications they are the only thing that has placed me where I am today. The medications for …show more content…
Some do not see why this medication is important for children and see it as hurting their children then helping them. Most say that doctors are misdiagnosing children because they are using just a check list and not an actual test examination. ADHD cannot be diagnosed in the matter of a normal twenty to thirty minute doctors’ appointment. Although I grant that misdiagnoses of children is harmful to them, I still maintain that if a child or adult is tested correctly then they should have a right to the medication