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    How Does ADHD Affect School Performance? The school experience can be challenging for students with ADHD. Students usually are identified only after consistently demonstrating a failure to understand or follow rules or to complete required tasks. Other common reasons for referral include frequent classroom disruptions and poor academic performance. Studies found that students with ADHD‚ compared to students without ADHD‚ had persistent academic difficulties that resulted in the following: lower

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    want a convenient way to solve a complicated problem. Ritalin is a central nervous system stimulant that is somewhat similar to amphetamines. It was created in 1955‚ classified as a controlled substance in 1971‚ and became the drug of choice for ADHD in 1981. It is also used in treating narcolepsy. It is thought to activate the brain stem arousal system and cortex‚ and‚ like cocaine‚ works on the neurotransmitter dopamine. It appears to increase the levels of dopamine in the frontal lobe where

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    attention. Most people would just link it to ADHD‚ but ADHD the problem every time? When teachers see a certain student struggling to pay attention time after time in class‚ they may or may not link it to ADHD. Teachers who automatically assume ADHD is the cause of the child not being able to pay attention could be putting a label on the child. Once a label is put on a certain child in the classroom‚ it could be hard to see past that label. The child may not have ADHD‚ they could have a much bigger problem

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    by his stepfather. Elias was a client of this community center approximately 18 months earlier. Elias had been referred for poor impulse control and hyperactivity. At that time he was diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). He also met with the agency psychiatrist who had prescribed Elias Focalin. His cased was closed after only a few sessions due to the family’s inconsistency and withdrawal from services. At this point in time Elias has been attending his

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    com‚ “Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition in which a person has trouble paying attention and focusing on tasks‚ tends to act without thinking‚ and has trouble sitting still. It may begin in early childhood and can continue into adulthood.” This website also informed me that without treatment and individuals life will have problems‚ from school‚ to work‚ and even their relationships. Another common misconception is that ADHD was once known as ADD. There are treatment options

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    Jonathan Richardson ENC September 22‚ 2013 Rebecca Foy Article Review of the Disorder ADHD in Children In searching for an article to review for the disorder for ADHD‚ a person could come across the website kidshealth webpage. To make sure that this website/webpage is legit‚ a person must do some background research of the website. This website was founded in 1992. The “KidsHealth comes from Nemours‚ one of the largest non-profit organizations devoted to children’s health and is located on

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    from his job when he was a very young man. My mother on the other hand does have high blood pressure and hypo-thyroid disorder. In addition to this my mother has acid reflux and so does my grandmother. The males in my family are very prone to having ADHD and the risk of me passing it along to my sons was very probable. As for the things that my mother and grandmother had‚ acid reflux‚ I had a very good chance of having this as well and I do. The hypo-thyroid disorder and high blood pressure did not

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    Controversy of Medication

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    overmedication for children diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and EDB (Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities). A major concern of overmedicating for ADHD is that there may be a significant over-identification of students with this disorder. The rapid growth of the OHI category over the past decade (a growth of almost 700%) has further fueled these fears (Rosenberg‚ 2007). Although so many students are diagnosed with ADHD‚ students with EBD may be under-indentified

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    treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) showing they are abused widely in society. This article intels possible legal issues related to the topic and the historical discourse concerning addiction associated with the use of amphetamines and methylphenidate for the treatment of ADHD‚ Lambert’s theories and the research counterclaims that are used to support the pharmaceutical manufacturer’s report that ’adequate treatment of ADHD may reduce the risk of substance abuse’. There are limitations

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    diagnosis for ADHD and that the checklist doctors go by to diagnose ADHD is not enough proof of a disease that needs to be medicated. This report includes four sections: background information‚ my methodology‚ results of the study‚ and conclusion and recommendations. Background Information For starters‚ there is no scientific basis for diagnosing ADHD. Often times it is the school counselor or social workers who are simply not equipped to make mental health assessments making the ADHD diagnoses (Williams)

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