Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), also known as attention deficit disorder (ADD), is a mental disorder that most often occurs in children. Symptoms of ADHD include trouble concentrating, paying attention, staying organized, and remembering details. With the insurmountable number of children that are being diagnosed and a continued increase in numbers, teachers need to be able to address this disorder and implement measures to ensure that students’ needs are met academically. The issue concerned with ADHD are the same issues that are directly stemming from its symptoms. A teacher that has a child or children in their class are bound to deal with the problems of paying attention, staying organized, trouble concentrating and
The student would have difficulty with multiple tasks, especially complex tasks, planning and staying focused, these are the things that children with ADHD will have a difficult time doing. A teacher would not have time to continuously address or assist these children as well as others. But it is not the fault of these students, just that their brains will not allow them to refrain from their disorders.
So additionally, the brain has an important role in the characteristic behaviors of these children. First, the three primary characteristics of ADHD are inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. The signs and symptoms a child with attention deficit disorder has depends on which characteristics predominate. As published in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with the delayed development of several brain regions and should be considered a brain disorder (2017).
Brain imaging studies have associated structural abnormalities with ADHD in children and adolescents,
ADHD has also been found to be associated with impairments in executive functioning, which is linked to deficits in the frontal brain regions.
The prefrontal cortex which control the executive functions of the brain shows in children with ADHD by difficulties in planning, organizing, and performing strategies. They may display difficulties in attention functions by mistakes that are careless, negligence and have difficulties in performing activities. Echeverri explains that “children show severe problems when they must follow through on instructions and tend to avoid tasks that require sustained mental effort. Moreover, they show an apparent trend in losing their personal belongings or forgetting their academic obligations” (2010). Memory functions such as following orders and instructions and difficulty in recalling information are all difficult even with intense concentration. Perceptive functions are observed in obvious hearing