When teaching students with ADHD it is important to be aware of what will ameliorate their performance in the classroom and to adapt your program in accordance. While adapting your classroom to students who have ADHD it is important to continuously modify the work environments and their schedules, people suffering from ADHD despise routines. Also to help the individual with maintaining their attention giving them strategies, will ensure that they will independently be able to keep their attention on assigned task; also, giving them strategies to organize their time, will certify that their daily tasks will be completed. Furthermore, allowing the child let out some excess energy throughout the day will keep them more attentive when they need to be during quiet individual work periods. (Ormrod, 2008) Essentially, when adapting a classroom to a child with ADHD, you are ensuring that everyone in the classroom is obtaining the ultimate education available to them.
Ultimately, ADHD is a common disorder found amongst children and can follow through all the way to adulthood, meaning some adults remain symptomatic. It is a neurobehavioural disorder affecting behaviour, emotions, learning and social abilities. Some parts of the brain are affected by ADHD, a chemical will affect the neurotransmitters and that explains why children with ADHD are impulsive, inattentive and hyperactive. When diagnosing the child, the symptoms must be present in two or more surroundings to certify that it is ADHD. To treat this disorder the best solution is: regular interventions and constant long-acting medication. This will enable the person suffering from ADHD to be at their best. Furthermore, boys and girls mature at different rates, this explains why more boys are affected by ADHD, hence it is important to research ADHD for boys and girls separately. Most ADHD children go to regular schools, so it is important to adapt classroom environments in accordance. When doing so, the teachers...