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Subject: Children with Attention Deficit

Author:
Hanifa

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Date Posted: 12:29:59 10/19/12 Fri

The behaviour of children who suffer from ADHD is easily noticed in the context of the "regular" classroom. I feel some schools are quite forceful in suggesting drugs (like Ritalin) in the treatment of these children. I do not have the medical expertise to debate the value and success of drugs like Ritalin; but I feel that if drug therapy is our first port of call, we may end up disempowering the child.The drug is used to manage the child, rather than his/her condition. As a consequence, we fail to teach the child useful strategies to deal with their condition.

A further concern that I have is that while the child with ADHD is noticed(albeit in a negative way), the child with ADD is usually ignored by the teacher - not deliberately, but simply because the child fails to demand it in the manner of an ADHD child. The ADD child is at even greater risk of educational underachievement.

Sadly, in both cases, the child fails to get the intervention and support that they require.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Children with Attention Deficit	Graham	05:10:53 10/21/12 Sun
Re: Children with Attention Deficit -- Darwin Jensen, 13:11:32 10/31/12 Wed
Re: Children with Attention Deficit	Mike Glover	01:18:16 11/09/12 Fri