ADHD Reflective Essay

Recently my 8 years old niece was diagnosed with ADHD, before I did not know what it really was until I got to experience her behavior and the psychologist gave the diagnosed. Everything began when she started pre-k, while all the kids were focus on playing with certain games or learning how to count she would either seen like she was daydreaming and it was happening constantly until the teacher called her mom to interview her and to let her know what was happening with my niece. At that time, none of us thought that could be a problem until my niece started first grade. In the second semester of first grade, her mom got a call from the school to go have a talk with my niece’s teacher. That time was to informed her that my niece was not performing
The symptoms she displays are: difficulty focusing in a task, impulsiveness, forgetfulness and problem paying attention to class. The teacher informed the mother to go get my niece check for the possibility of having ADHD when my sister told me I took upon myself to go to her house and see if she would display the same symptons to me and unfortunately I realized my niece was not ok when it comes to being focus. My sister took my niece to the psychologist and he diagnosed her with ADHD, he recommended not to take any drugs as of yet but to take her to cognitive behavioral therapy and to create a schedule to make my niece start a routine in which she dedicates an hour of reading at home and another hour to play. My niece’s failure to learn how to read was very traumatic, because parents don't like to accept when their child have any mental disorder. Parents start to blame the child for the disorder not knowing that they can also be part of it. As of right now, we don’t know if the treatment is working because it has been only 4 weeks since she got diagnosed with