Disable Child with Special Needs

A Case Study of a Disable Child with Special Needs
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Name: Adam Birth: 02-03-2013 Interviewer: William Bierd Date of Interview: 20-09-2022
Introduction
The purpose of this case study is to briefly analyze the familial, educational, and social aspects of a nine years old child Adam having special needs. I interviewed his father, Justin, who equipped me with details in all required areas to connect it with my scholarly research about special education. The child is facing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Background and Family
Adam is a nine years old boy. He lives in Chester, New York, with both his parents, who are married. Besides his parents, two other siblings are a part of his family. He shares the second number as birth order among them. Adam is a Native American by heritage, and all other family members are white. Both parents are job holders – the father deals in shoes and spends 10 hours at work, and the mother is a trainer at a gymnastic school. She spends around 6-8 hours at school. Adam is in 4th grade in a school near his locality, where he studies with his siblings. The awareness of his hyperactivity, inattentiveness, and impulsiveness raised concerns when she joined her school. The parents, teachers, and other class fellows simultaneously began noticing a sudden social struggle in Adam, which raised medical worries for him. According to my research, the most significant risk factor in originating this psychosocial issue is complications during pregnancy and delivery of the child (Biederman, 2005). However, while answering my questions, Justin said there was no complication. A normal pregnancy indicated normal infant development, and the baby was delivered without medical concerns.  The couple also attempted to seek spiritual peace for the boy by sending him to church people for teachings, sermons, and holy enlightenment.
Additionally, both the maternal and paternal grandparents visit Adam regularly to make him feel beloved and discourage his likeness to loneliness. I asked this question because familial stress is also a dominant cause of triggering ADHD. The boy loves to play cricket and video games as his main interests, which are stress-releasing. Also, Adam's family is not poor, which is the third most noteworthy generator of ADHD (Taylor, 2021). Justin considers his health and energy Adam’s strengths, while his weaknesses involve inattentiveness and impulsive behavior when it is essential to focus on a task.
As Adam’s ADHD issues and poor academic skills began to surface as soon as he was admitted to the school at 3, his teachers asked his parents to evaluate him. They agreed, and he was sent to the evaluator. The results showed that he had suffered emotional and social stress throughout his academic beginning. He could not make many friends and developed a longing for loneliness. His siblings had friends and could not keep him in the group for his developmentally inappropriate behavior in class. The hyperactivity and inattentiveness produced a lack of ambition and progress in academic skills. Hence, the negative feedback from teache...