Children with special needs. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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What Should Mona Know About ADHD?
Attention, Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, is one of the most common mental disorders that affect both children and adults. The affected children are unable to control their actions well as compared to the children that are not diagnosed with the disorder. Mona should understand that the disorder can affect children, teenagers and also go into adulthood. Given the fact that a five to six-year-old child is still in the process of developing and discovering the new things in their world, then the disorder displays various symptoms that affect both their school and home life. However, with the right directions, teachers and aides have mastered how to deal with such students. The process of interacting with them should incorporate a way of coping with the ADHD symptoms to ensure that they do not feel discriminated and, that, it does not interfere with the performance of the rest of the students.
Therefore, Mona should be aware of the various symptoms that are expressed by the ADHD student because they remain to be the aspects of consideration when teaching the student. Their symptoms have an impact on the whole class. Among the common symptoms is that the student may be easily distracted by activities in the classroom that would normally not shift the attention of the other students. This means that she would have to be careful about noticing the small distractions that might have an impact on the student. As well, this is accompanied by the student being poor in paying attention, and, hence, in most cases, they don't finish the classroom tasks that were allocated to them. An ADHD student will also be prone to making careless mistakes even after the teacher has corrected them several times regarding the same mistake (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, 2018). The fact that they cannot pay close attention leads Mona into understanding that the student will have a great challenge in the accomplishment of tasks that will require them to sit still. They have a lot of urge to move around hence enhancing their inability to pay attention and focus on routine tasks.
As well, the ADHD student finds it a challenge to play quietly and, therefore, Mona Should expect the student to climb on chairs, run around the classroom carelessly and often bounce while the sited down. Such behavior could be a distraction to the rest of the students, and hence, she should have a strategy of dealing with it. The student will tend to talk a lot and, this can be expressed in the classroom by their behavior of bursting out answers before the teacher can call them out to answer, having a challenge of waiting for their turn to carry out a certain activity as well as interrupting other in the classroom. She should also know that the disorder does not have a treatment and can progress into adulthood. However, with the help of an aide, the ADHD symptoms can be managed at a great level to ensure that the student does not feel discriminated but, rather, fits in the class of the students that do not have the disorder. Therefore, Mona should be prepared to deal with the symptoms and be able to engage the rest of the students to ensure t...