The Treatment

The treatment of the ADD/ADHD person can be at school and home with the help of a doctor, as mentioned previously, and it could be treated by special medications as the categories, which are usually stimulated medications, these are usually for many years.
These kinds of drugs help the child to have more concentration in regulating his/her activity level, and rude behavior. These medicines include methylphenidate (Ritalin) dextroamphetamin (Dexedrine) and pemoline (Cylert).

References:
_Haber, Julian Stuart. ADHD The Great Mis Diagnosis. Taylor Trade Publishing: New York,
2003.
_Rief, Sandra F. How To Reach And Teach ADD/ADHD Children. The Center for Applied
Research in Education: New York, 1993.

Help from teachers

To help the ADD/ADHD child, teachers have a big role in making it happen. The excellent possible environment for a student diagnosed with ADD/ADHD is a small, structured classroom with a low student-to-teacher ration and little disturbances. this seldom exist in the public school system. The general tendency continues toward inclusion classrooms, under the idea that all children can be educated equally within the same classroom envirnment. Private schools with unequally practiced educators and appropriate settings for teaching children with learning or behavioral troubles often are rare and cost alot (Julian Stuart Habel 167).
Inorder for the techer to communicate with her students, he/she must have special classroom techniques as Redirection, Manual cuing, Secret codes, and Organization and Management techniques, as well as Communication (Sandra F. Rief 49).

Maximizing the potential of the ADD/ADHD child

When a parent needs to maximize the potential of the ADD/ADHD child, he/she needs the most striking approach which is a multifaceted treatment approach which may include:
_Behavioral modification and management at home and school
_Counseling. Family counseling is advised because with an ADHD child in the house, the wholoe family is affected.
_Individual counseling to learn coping ways, problem solving techniques, and how to deal with stress and self-esteem
_Perceived therapy to give the child the skills to regulate his/her own behavior and "stop-and-think_ startegies.
_Social skills practicing
_Many school interventions
_Providing for physical out let
_Medical intervention (drug therapy)
_Parent education, to support parent learns as they can about ADHD so they can help their child (Sandra F. Rief 15).

Help from parents

We all know how important it is to draw help from parents if we expect any success from their kids, especially those with unique needs. Children with learning or attention troubles don't out grow their "disorders". They will generally need help, monitoring, structuring, and help for a number of years. Parents who are trying to support their children at home and wish to be supportive to the teacher's efforts, need the following:
_clear communication of the teacher's expectations;
_homework noted daily;
_accessibility of teachers; and
_teacher responsiveness and sensitivity
Families frequently need help learning how to cope and deal with a "difficult" or "challenging" kid. Parents want to hear that they are not alone and that many others are having the same worries, fears, and frustrations that they are. Parents help groups are extremely helpful for this reason.Parents need to know how to be their child's recommender and communicate their child's needs to family members, friends, and teachers, and coaches (Sandra F. Rief 139,140).

The story behind Lekisha Wright

Lekisha Wright, a bright-eyed, happy small girl, started first grade with great excitement, and childhood joy. Mrs. Jones, her teacher, seated her in the next-to-last row in a classroom of twenty children. After two weeks of school, it became obvious to Mrs. Jones that Lekisha wasn't paying attention, and couldn't follow directions. She asked the little girl's mother to come in for meeting.
Mrs. Jones said to Mrs. Wright that Lekisha was very restless, couldn't follow what was happening in the classroom, was not alert and couldn't do what was asked for. "I was at a teacher's seminar recently, "Mrs. Jones said," and Lekisha sounds like some of the children they described. you really need to take her to your doctor and see if she has ADHD."
Luckily, the child's physician, a general pediatrician in our clinic, was shrewed. One of the first things she did was checked Lekisha's heariong and vision. Sure enough, the child had medium hearing loss in both ears. Further testing showed that the hearing loss was from a mild infection and fluid behind both eardrums. After a lesson of appropiate treatment, Lekisha's hearing changed backl to normal, her problem was resolved, and she made a lot of progress through the remainder of the first grade.
Any kid who has signs like Lekisha's must check his/her hearing or vision problem as part of any work up. Such troubles are often are often mistaken for ADHD, predominantly Inattentive.

How to identify an ADD/ADHD person

To identify an ADD/ADHD, person some steps need to be done.

It's crucial to know that any of the acts that an ADD/ADHD child do is normal in childhood to a specific degree at many different development steps. For instance, it is normal for a young child to have difficult waiting for his/her turn, to have a short attention span, and cannot sit for very long. yet, when a kid faces a frequently high number of these acts when they are developmentally inappropriate (compared to other children their age), it is problematic. These children will need help and intervention (Sandra F. Rief 3).

When a child displays inattention, high activity, or impulsivity, a clinician must consider these acts as characteristics of any number of disorders.

Numerous troubles, disorders, and sicknesses have close signs to ADHD; learning and vision abnormalities, allergies, neurological obstacles, mental retardation, troubles with learning and school, different medical illnesses, autism disorders, depression, and family alternations or disruptions.

Symptoms of ADHD

The symptoms of ADHD are as follows:

*High activity level

_looks in non-stop movement

_usually makes restless movements with hands or feet, squirms, falls from chair

_looks for close things to play with/put in mouth

_wanders around the classroom-very hard staying in seat

*Impulsivity and lack of self-control

_utter abruptly out verbally, usually inappropriately

_can't wait for his/her turn

_often interrupts or intrudes on others

_often talks alot

_gets in problems because he/her can't "stop and think" before acting (answer first/think later)

_often interfere in physically dangerous activities without thinking about the results (for instance: jumping from heights, riding bike into roads without looking); therefore, a high frequency of damage.

*Difficulty with transitions/changing activities

_forceful acts, easily over stimulated

_socially immature

_low self-esteem and high frustration

Take carefull note that not all characteristics applyu to each child, and symptoms differ in degree (Sandra F. Rief 2,3).

Symptoms of ADD

The symptoms of ADD are as follows:
_Easily disturbed by irrelevant stimuli
_Difficulty listening and following directions
_Hardly focusing and sustaining attention
_Hardly concentrating and attending to task
_Contradictory performance in school work-one day the student can do the work, the next day can't, the student is "consistently inconsistently"
_Tunes out-may look "spacey"
_Disorganized-loses/can't find belonging (dittoes, pencils, books); tables as well as rooms may be total chaos area
_Weak study skills
_Hardly working alone (Sandra F. Rief 1,2)

Causes of ADD/ADHD

It is still unknown what the causes of ADHD are. The scientific and medical communities are getting more and more knowledge about how the brain works and what affects attention and learning. Like many disorders, it is not frequently possible to find a cause. At this time, ADD/ADHD relates to heredity or other biological factors.

The following are possible causes of ADD/ADHD:

_Genetic Causes: A child with ADD/ADHD may get this from one of his/her family members who has similar behavior during childhood.

_Biological/Physiological causes: People with ADD seem to have a shortage or neurotransmitters.

_Complications or trauma in pregnancy or birth.

_Lead poisoning.

_Diet: ADHD symptoms linked to diet and food allergies continue to remain debatable in the medical community.

_Prenatal alcohol and drug exposure: Children clinically exposed to drugs are having numerous neurological disorders and acts that we notice in ADD kids (Sandra F. Rief)

ADD/ADHD: It's not that they don't have enough attention; they have too much and don't know where to direct their attention.

At age eight, Raymond Martinez couldn't participate on any schedual at home. Unable to remember any series of jobs, he rarely finished anything. Mostly to his parents' frustration, Raymond's bedroom was a catastrophe. Clothes, bedding, and school things were thrown around everywhere. Assignment time became a family lasting hostility. Homework rarely did it at home. When they did, the books Raymond wanted to do always stayed at school (Julian stuart Haber 7).

The word ADD or ADHD refers to children who have attending problems. They can't "filter" out the extra "stuff". A lot of these children are hyper auditory, which means they hear the plane 30,000 f.t high, the door close next door, the second of electricity in your appliances or lights, the air conditioning switch on.